Painting In Peril : Painting in Progress ( week 3)

MONTALCINO: STILL LIFE WITH THREE GROUPS OF FLOWERS

James Aponovich

FIDDLING and DIDDLING


YESTERDAY....

TODAY...

Montalcino: Still Life with Three Groups of Flowers   (Painting in progress)
James Aponovich
Oil on canvas


Well the painting is getting kinda grundgy, so I guess it's time to
clean things up a bit. That means organising a background , in this case
a sky.
This particular background is both a:

1.   Clear sky
and
2.  A whole lot of the color blue.

When we look we see a blue sky. O.K., let's move on, but , in my work a
sky is usually seven or more colors / values. We call it , " an all day
painting job." It is difficult but boy, it makes an impact.

This is where the going gets a little tough. With the sky painted it's
time to start balancing the colors. So far the dominate colors
are blue ( vase and sky), and yellow ( cloth and ribbon). So to
complete a Primary 'Chord' of color red is needed and lots of it!

It is time to begin shifting these pesky hydrangeas to pink.

Right now the fourth color is green ( leaves). Black and white
don't count yet. With green added to yellow, red and blue we
have Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe's 'Primary Chord'.
Not so fast Wolfie, we  have orange here.....
I have a feeling things will change yet again.





Until next week.....