Crystal Lake Plein Air Visual-2015

Visual  |  Layout  |  Scenery

With no contact to the outside world for 4 days other than the company of amazing family and friends, a few hours each day was diverted into creating a visual painting. 

Despite mostly cloudy conditions brought on by Mother Nature, remaining sun and highlights will be completed in studio. 
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12/29/15 - Project complete!  

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Studio finish

After spending 4 days visually preparing the canvas, final touches are being applied to complete this creation.  It was truly a different experience painting what I saw visually to that of applying the finishing touches in the studio. Below are captioned studio touches. 

Started working left to right in studio setting

Adding greenery to lower left with tree stump

Lower left to right touching up

Touching up green grass and started adding Fire Pit benches.

Palette knife painted in the fire pit. Textured nicely.

Starting to apply shadows and highlights.

Added another Adirondack chair along with shoreline shadows.

A cottage shoreline wouldn't be safe without a life ring tied to an old stump!

A few more tweaks and extending the painting along the outer edges.

Detailing outer edge on the top to continue tree line and sky

Detailing outer sides to include a flow of trees, sand and water

Detailing outer edge to include more tree line and water's edge.

Other than signing & dating, project complete.

Project completed. Next painting already a thought. Stay tuned!

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Visual Setting - August 2015

Creating background tree line

Sitting in the chair, you can see the vision of the trees in the background being transferred onto canvas

Adding foreground grass colours

Adding foreground colours and highlighting background trees

Starting the fire pit which requires further detail.

Cleaning then visual, paint, more cleaning, visual then paint.