I love country rural scenes in nature. Here is a dirt road with a mountain range in the background. Also a large hay field with bales of hay. I have been lately drawn to the dirt road or path in my landscapes. When an artist uses a path whether that be a paved road, dirt road, gravel road, or even a trail their intention is to direct the viewer's eye through the composition to the focal point. Here the focal point is in the distant background.
To begin with I used raw umber as the under painting to lay out the composition design and establish the illusion of depth with one point perspective. One point perspective is when an object in a two deminsional plane or surface gets smaller as the eye goes towards the horizon line. Horizon line is where the sky and earth meets. I used a #2 liner brush and a #1 round brush to line paint in the features.
Next I continued to use my same brushes as in the previous step, however this time as you notice the background is being develop. The sky is painted in a broken color technique where the blue in the sky itself has a variety of values of blue with hints of yellow and green enter mixed. The form of the cloud structure is established and color is being added over the top of the under painting.
Finally, in this stage of the painting I change from the previous brushes to a #4 flat brush to paint in the distant mountain range, trees and hay field. More details is added to the land and clouds. In order to create atmospheric depth, I mixed in some blue with green to disaturate the color in the mountains.
"Heaven's Sky Scraper" completed in acrylic on 11x14 canvas DWeaver Art ©
