Tuesday, August 30, 2016

Fire Water

Usually when I start off a painting I will have some idea of what I'm doing, like some reference pics, or sketches, but this was made with no plan whatsoever. I started of just slapping some paint on my palette and applying every color at once with an oversized brush. Then I went back with a much smaller brush bringing out the brightest hue I could. Then darker colors were put in to create depth. The sky was actually the last part I did. I call the piece fire water because it reminds me of how paint reacts when dripping alcohol on it. You might notice the face hiding in the "mountain", I wanted to get rid of it at first but I'm leaving it. This was a fairly small scale painting, about 34x18 inches. I would love to try something like this again, this time purposefully adding in figures.

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