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Sailing on Twilight Lake
I recently participated in an art exhibit in Bay Head, NJ. I went down the previous week and did some plein air sketches at the beach and at Twilight Lake. I wanted to do a moonlight or nocturne scene so I basically just sketched in the profile of the trees and did the rest of the painting in studio. Framed in a custom painted dark blue rustic frame this painting is for sale. For price e-mail at: mikemalzone@gmail.com
Twilight Lake by moonlight, 8 x 10 oil on linen
Fall painting
Fall colors are a beautiful thing to behold but quite different to capture on canvas. One of the many tricky things is the trees become more sparse each day which means backgrounds peak through. I started this sketch using cad orange to map out the foreground tree even though the leaves themselves weren’t that radiant.
I also try to mass in large values like skies and large patches of grass. They help to establish the key of the painting, the trick is not to keep the chroma or the brightness of the color under control. It’s easy to want to blast a tree with pure yellow or orange but the goal is to keep the painting credible every step along the way.
As you can see blue skies were moving in and the whole mood of the scene was changing.
Unfortunately I was out of time as I had to get back to the studio for afternoon classes but I gathered quite a bit of information for a 1 & 1/2 hour painting. Although there were pretty of geese available, I’m tempted to put some sheep or cows on that bridge.
