WIP - Bissett's Barn, God's Sky

The Pook · Joined: 01 Feb 2007 Posts: 2904 Location: Tasmania

I started this one yesterday. It's a very simple composition with few colours and is almost finished apart from letting it dry and doing some glazes perhaps.

Colours used: Fragonard Zinc White; Blockx Cassell Earth & Mars Violet; AS Tasman Blue; Rowney Georgian Monestial Blue; OH Violet Grey & Blue Grey.

Above: "Bissett's Barn, God's Sky" 14"x10" (36x25cm) Oils on canvas board.

Below: Detail sections of painting:

I drove past this barn today and it is now a roof sitting on the ground - must have blown down in last week's windstorm!

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Hi Greg - that's looking really nice. Fantastic feeling of of space you've got there. And the sky's got some really nice movement happening.

Cheers

Grant

The Pook · Joined: 01 Feb 2007 Posts: 2904 Location: Tasmania

Thanks for stopping by to look Grant. Yes we have some amazing big skies here, and I wanted to communicate that vastness of space by showing nothing but the tree and the barn and the sky. I cheated with this one - it's a sky from another photo overlooking Bass Strait, though similar to the real sky in the photo of the barn.

I've added a few more cloud highlights and yellowed the sky on the horizon. The trick with this one will be not fiddling or adding too much. I need to keep it simple and stark for it to work. Knowing when you're finished is the hard thing.