After spending a week in snowy Minnesota over Thanksgiving and stockpiling my snow scene photos, can you guess what our subject matter was in my December classes at my studio?
Below are my demos from Wednesday, Thursday and Friday classes held this past week.
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| Last Light on Wyanett Creek, oil, 11x14 (cell phone photo) |
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| Wyanett Creek, oil, 8x10 |
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| Snow Glow, pastel, 8x10 |
All were done with a fairly limited palette, using very similar warm and cool hues in each of the value groups. Both the oil and pastel demos used warm underpaintings. Much of the snow in each of the three paintings is in shadow, which called for mid-range value grey-blues. The warm underpaintings allowed the greyed color to still contrast nicely and have some vibrancy, yet still read accurately in the shadow areas. An early stage of "Last Light on Wyanett Creek" below shows this warm/cool contrast...
Sorry for the bad cell phone pic at the top. I shoot my oil paintings outside, and with the days getting dark so early, I ran out of time today to shoot it on my good camera. There's a little glare in the top right. Need to reshoot. But first, it's on to Christmas cookie baking!
Upcoming Workshops:
PASTEL Workshop - Stevensville, MD - 3-day
Workshop - February 6, 7 & 8, 2015 (Fri/Sat/Sun)
Demo - Thurs., Feb. 5, 5:30 - 8:30 pm, $45, $55 at door
Chesapeake Fine Art Studio
609 Thompson Creek Rd.
Stevensville, MD 21666
(about 40 minutes from downtown Baltimore)
$400
410-200-8019
PASTEL Workshop - Bonita Springs, FL - 3-day
Feb. 25, 26 & 27, 2015 (Wed/Thurs/Fri)
Center for the Arts of Bonita Springs
26100 Old US 41 Road
Bonita Springs, FL 34135
$350/members; $400/nonmembers
239-495-8989
OIL/PASTEL Workshop - Dahlonega, GA - 2-day
March 19 & 20, 2015 (Thurs/Fri)
The Art Loft
Dahlonega, GA
www.artloft.net
$285
To register, visit www.artloft.net.
OIL/PASTEL Workshop - Newport, RI - 3-day
April 24, 25 & 26 (Fri/Sat/Sun)
Newport Art Museum
76 Bellevue Ave.
Newport, RI 02840
$365 NAM members; $420 non members
401-848-2787
See my workshop page on my website for details and complete schedule through 2015, or email me with any questions.
www.barbarajaenicke.com
barbarajaenicke@msn.com
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