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Jackaranda Season 2011
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5-11-11, #976, Day 1, 8:30 AM to 1:30 PM. Drew it in with charcoal, cobalt blue over charcoal, sky blended with my fingers. 100% coverage with local colors, That means I have a medium to light accurate color down, from here I can add highlights and shadows to the local color. I may be half finished.  5-13-11, Day 2, 12:00 AM to 5:30 PM. This was a clean up day, the weather was off, cloudy and 2 hours of rain. I got the road lines in, the guard rail and some smaller things. I tried to use the colors that were already there.  5-15-11, Day 3, 8:00 AM to 12:15 PM. Beautiful day, I want the sun in the morning. I re-did most of the tree, first a coat of white as an eraser than paint in the change. It's a very powerful piece so far.
 5-18-11, Day 5, 8:05 to 12:00 PM, all the color is between 8 and 8:30. I have big errors in the branches, I whited out the area and painted in a matching sky. I have definitely changed this from an early afternoon to a morning painting. 5-19-11, Day 6, I left behind my "close up" glasses. Today I washed the road with a cooler color to match the morning. More white-out for tomorrow's new changes. I have to decide if the blue in the right railing is too blue, shadows in the morning are a yellow (dark yellow is brown) with a blue opposition and a wash if brown will neutrally darken it, that's the way shadows work. I've been saying for two days, "tomorrow it should be finished". Should I put a cyclist in? Maybe I can smooth out the road tonight. There is a fence in the right hand gully that I want to put in. The left peak on the mountain is where the new observatories are, it's called Red Hill.  Julie Gaeevia is painting with me, she has the gallery on the corner of Baldwin and Makawao Avenues. That's my painting van studio behind her.  |
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I have some cut 1/8" hard pressed masonite, just round the corners, seal the back and sides with waterbased polyurathane and gesso the front as many times as necessary to see only white. Paint the sides first and last. My panel is without texture because I paint without texture. I'm making these panels: 3 = 5.5 x 7.5 5 = 7.5 x 11 5 = 11 x 15 6 = 15 x 22 3 = 22 x 30 and a store bought 24 x 36. Masonite panels were unavailable when I made my last batch, today most suppliers make them. It's much cheaper to make them yourself, with or without the added linen layer. Started with the un-sanded cut panels at 9 AM, by 6 PM the backs were clear coated and the fronts had three coats of primer. In the morning I'll give them perhaps three more layers of gesso. Always light sand between layers, the final sanding will be done with 600 grit wet/dry sandpaper. It's the next day, 5-29-11 and I spent another 9 hours priming and sanding. 5-30-11, Today is the last day. I'm doing the (3) 22x30's today, the rest are finished.
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Jacaranda Upper Road Kula, Kahakaloa Head background, #979, 11x7.5, Masonite panel,
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6-20-11, 11 x 7.5 acrylic, #980 6-20-11, I did a charcoal drawing of the Liquor Shack Jacaranda on an 11 x 7.5 panel, at home I added the sky and some of the lines in blue. That's enough for a quick start next time on location.
  6-23-11, Day 2, my van got a water leak, the hoses are old, circa 1985. I noticed it while parking to paint yesterday. Well, that ruined the day and I left my painting equipment in the van. Today I had to walked to location carrying a little jar of water, the panel, two brushes, a round ferrule #4 syn. hog and a round ferrule flat end #4 sable. I just sat on the ground and painted for an hour and a half, I couldn't take the hard ground anymore, ran out of cigarettes and headed home. The mechanic didn't call today so I may have to do the same thing tomorrow, I'll take a pillow to sit on.
 6-27-11, Day 3. 12Pm to 3Pm. I finished it today, the wind was howling, I brought my chair and hand held the painting again. It was the only way to work and constant gusts still made it difficult. The little bit of rain about 1:00 I could handle but the wind made it rough. My Liquitex Painting medium (looks like water) kept my paint from drying out the minute I brought it to the top-outside of my safe palette box. It's a good thing I had a chin strap on my hat is all I can say. Ah, life as a location painter, ain't it grand. This may be the last jacaranda painting of the season, this tree was the best tree I had found on Maui because it was protected from the wind, the rest are wind-blown with flowers that are mostly gone, they might come back one more time though. I added-in the girl that works there.
  I took the 7.5x5.5 acrylic painting, photographed it in the morning sun and printed it, once as a 7.5x5.5 giclee for the girl Mi-Suk and as a 22x15 giclee on canvas for my collection. I added texture with acrylic clear gel, stroke for stroke, and mounted the canvas on a masonite panel just like my paintings. The giclee uses the same pigments that I paint my full color, 3 pigment painting with and the final finish is the same water based non-yellowing polyurethane I use on my painting. The giclees and original painting will never yellow like oil will. |
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