This is a close up of what Van Gogh called a retical.
His was on a post that stuck in the ground at standing height.
You can see the threads dividing quarters. I prefer my retical
over the top of the image rather then on the side.
| Day 1, The grid lines are drawn in charcoal to match the threads of the reticulator. Charcoal is also used to draw in the image and a chamois erases clean. If this painting were in oil paint I would just start painting. 
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Day 1, the lines of charcoal are painted over with Burnt Umber and Liquitex
Fluid Medium instead of using water to dilute the paint. It's a stronger
bond to the support then water only. Nothing moves while the support is washed free of charcoal. 
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The whole painting was given a coat of jar white acrylic, spread
thinly. This gives a smoother surface that receives washes nicely, plus,
if I leave any spaces uncovered with new paint the gesso will still have
real paint over it.
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Day 2,
I painted the sky in over the trees line drawing, repainted the basic tree limbs and trunks and added enough color to get me started. 
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| Day 3, Corrected all of yesterdays errors with white from 10 to
11:30.
Adding smaller tree branches now, I want to get a lot of them. I can always block out the areas the have leaves over them. I paint a tree in 3 area parts; the inside back of the shell, the middle area with the branches and the front, the outside foreground shell of leaves or flowers. I will add more to the back area next. By jumping between the back shell colors and middle branches the tree takes shape. The texture of the small flowers is small , too small for just
a brush. I grabbed a sponge and picked pieces out of it until I had a nice
veritable surface and started dabbing, sky color over solid purple areas and
purple flowers over the sky. I'll work over the whole picture now, this is the light I want, in the afternoon, the light coming from the right 3:00 I'm definitely at that "everything's a mess" stage but at least
I have a 100% coverage. That usually means I'm 1/2 way finished. |
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| Day 4 and 5, Day 5, What a day! I decided the time for the color in this painting was in the late afternoon. So, this morning I started another painting. I saw a church last week at 7:00 in the morning and the morning light was fantastic. It's a light yellow building with bright sunlight on it. I made a note to paint it the next chance I got. Well this is it. So I spent 4 hours drawing it this morning. Now I have a 7 to 11 and a 12 to 5. They are only 25 minutes apart and I'll be staying at a friends between the two. Expect perfection, it happens all the time! |
Day 8,
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Jacaranda Flowers all around me.
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| Day 9, finished, except maybe the road.
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Day 11, I needed some power. This tree, a week later, today, was finished.
The flowers were down to 10 %, but I could see the trees branches a lot clearer
and could tell were the bunches were.
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Finished
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