AFTER THE STORM acrylic abstract, Day 27 of the 30 day challenge

AFTER THE STORM Work in Progress

acrylic abstract painting

50x60cm (20x24in) on gallery wrapped canvas

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Day 27 of Jan 2017 30 paintings challenge

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I needed to use paint today - I was getting withdrawal symptons.


I liked the effect of day 10's painting, During the Storm, and wanted to see if I could scale it up.

I gessoed the canvas with heavy body gesso to get some texture and to ecourage the paint to pool in the texture. This is how it look after the initial wash - Sorry a very glary photo:

Next I mixed black with heavy gel medium and added that in what I hoped was and interesting shape. Then I started working on the colour. This was my initial pass, but I felt it was much too bright.

I continued working on toning it down and trying to 'meld' the colours together and also adding a few darks. Day 10's painting was on mountboard and came out much more moody, probably because the colours ran together more. On the canvas the paint did not flow as easily

Todays task is to bring it to a finished state.

Guardian of the view - tree painting in oil using a palette knife

Guardian of the view

Palette knife painting

18x24cm (approx 7"x10")

Oil on MDF canvas panel

Available on Daily Paintworks

This painting is in response to this week's challenge on Daily Paintworks to paint 'Sky Holes'.
The model for this painting is the same one that appears in 'Sunset over the vineyard'. I love the way it twists and turns and stands guard. It was a sunny day but the clouds were starting to build up.

About this painting
This was painted on my usual pink ground after treating the canvas panel with liquitex thick gesso to give additional texture. I painted the tree very loose suggesting the different shades of the leaves in blocks. Some of the sky holes were painted back in to add breathing spaces, or to put it another way, leaving space for the birds to fly through.
Some close-ups of the knife work.