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| Just a Touch of Sunlight, oil, 12 x 16 |
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| Rum River Glow, oil 11 x 14 |
Along with much of the US, the Atlanta, GA area where I live
has been unbearably hot the past few weeks. Sooooo, I thought it would be a
great time to break from the greens of summer, change up the color palette, and
cool off with some winter landscapes.
In Just a Touch of Sunlight, I wanted to capture the
slight glimmer of sunlight on the side of the barn and the grass to the right
of it. To get the effect I wanted, I found that I needed to add more grass to
the foreground than what was actually there.
Rum River Glow was a piece that I did several months
ago and set aside, knowing it needed changes. I talk more about that in an
earlier post. I rephotographed it since that earlier post and was able to
reduce the glare now that it's dry.
Speaking of photographing oil paintings, I photographed both
of these outside earlier today. I know that many artists prefer to photograph
their work outside. I normally shoot my work in my studio with spotlights. I
was always unsure if I could get even lighting with shooting outside. Since I
just finished Just a Touch of Sunlight yesterday, and used some
glazes, the glare was a big problem. And I needed to get a good shot of it today to
make a deadline for a show entry. So today was my first attempt at
photographing my work outside. I found it to be a great solution for the glare
problem on still-wet oils!
I know what you mean about the glare. For the smaller oils I have a great north light window in my studio that gives nice even light so I set the painting up on a small table next to the window. The bigger ones I bring outside on the porch. So far this seems to work best. I love the winter paintings!!
ReplyDeleteThanks, Karen! I don't seem to get quite enough light from my "northish" facing window. I think it's too blocked by the house next to us. Today was the first time I hauled everything outside, and was glad I did!
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