So, I've been doing a fair number of landscapes en plein aire this season, but I've been looking at a lot of Samuel Palmer and (to a lesser extent) Charles Burchfield and have been thinking about ways to open up my landscapes a little. I've stretched up a few largish canvases and traced the proportions onto smaller paper in order to do sketches in the field, then tackle the painting in the studio. I'm thinking this will free them up substantially. However, this is a new process for me, so who knows...
These are a few drawings I did in preparation for a larger work. I'm going to go out again, hopefully come up with 4 or so drawings that I'm reasonably happy with, and work from those. I think drawing smaller will make the final composition chunkier. We shall see.
1 comment:
These look great. There seems to be a curve of sorts to the one on the left that is particularly compelling. Nice work!
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