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Coming Foreward

4/22/2020

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This segment focuses on the middle ground of the painting, where the colors are more intense, warmer and the contrast of values is greater.

Unlike the photo reference, I want this area to be both flat and hilly with some small trees and shrubs. My brush strokes follow the form to show that.
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It is important to consider the elements of form and movement. Visual movement in a painting can be created with line, edges, change of value and perspective. First, I want to move the viewer to the center of interest and then to the rest of the composition while preventing the viewer from leaving the painting. The path I am creating starts from the bottom and leads the viewer to the buildings. The darker tree values in the background attract the viewer to that area and then, as mentioned in a previous step, to the right side of the painting by use of value change.

​I left some unpainted (white spaces) on the right which I will build on to create movement to come back to where I started. 
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After the middle ground was painted, I was able to paint the structures with more form and detail. The roofs that are in shadow were painted with a cooler color. The roofs in the light were painted with a warmer color. Light sides of the structures were painted with the warmest red on my palette, which is Cadmium Red Scarlet, and the shadow sides were painted with a cooler and grayer color, and the cast shadows were painted with a cooler and grayer color of the ground.
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P l seifrid
4/24/2020 05:17:39 pm

This is a tough part of the painting. You do it so well...
Thank you, Bob

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