Art 102: Terry's Landscape in Brittany

I'm drawing from your photos!

I’m back to painting from your photos! If I choose your photo to paint, I’ll mail you the original. See the bottom of this post for details.

Here’s the painting I’ll be demonstrating today. A few notes about how I approached this:

• I decided to leave out the greenery in the foreground. It’s nice to have a framing device like this, but I decided that this composition was really all about the little house and the big sky, and anything else would be a distraction.

• I also left out the seaweed or whatever purplish thing is floating in the water in the foreground. This is a great example of something that looks cool in the photo but would be really hard to “read” in a painting.

• I decided to draw in brown sepia ink, which I think gives it a bit of a vintage look. You can learn all about ink right here. I used a Sailor fude pen and DeAtramentis Sepia Document Ink.

• Here are the colors in my palette.

• I used a wet-into-wet technique for the sky, which we talked about here.

And here’s the original photo,…