Landscape made with tutorial of T.Zubova.
This took me 8 hours. A lot of paint was used and probably one of the most expensive paintings so far due to tons of consumed cadmium colors: yellow, orange, light red; also Indian yellow, red madder, ochre, phtalo blue and ultramarine blue, burnt sienna and umber and phtalo green. TW is also there.
Incredibly difficult to manage thick layers of paint.
This technique requires brushes in a great condition to make strokes precise.
Thinner was turpentine.
The water looks almost like water color. Fantastic painting!
@TheLandscapePainter and @Felix - Thank you folks! It was a real lesson for me. Of course till I posted it here and looked at it from big screen rather than from the phone I realized few issues are there. :) I will let them be there.
Lessons for me were:
- Trees
- Water reflections (need to be done in one sitting, I did it over two days and browns thinned with turp already got dry overnight, so I had to lay new water )
- Colors was quite a challenge as I messed up with value on the background and made it darker than needed thus foliage was a challenge to separate from background.
Wow so realistic! Truly a beautiful painting! Awesome job!
Gorgeous painting! Thanks for sharing!
It’s beautiful Sunnylady. I love those distant background colors that seem to glow, and the character in the old trees. Such great color coordination overall.
Beautiful colors!
Very moody colouring and autumn is unmistakenly very close by!
Was mentioned here before and I will emphasize it, your reflections are amongst the better ones I have seen here. Simply divine!!
@paintingblondoe, @KarenKey,@ForestVueGallery, @ jacqueline72, @VoyKay - thank you my dear friends! Thanks for you kind words and endless support.
Very beautiful! Your 8 hours of hard work paid off for sure! Glassy water, soft background trees and great foreground trees. I absolutely love the colors, especially that plum-brown in the water against the gold.
Great job!
@flippergirl - thank you very much. I loved that plum brown too. I did not think before this is the color in fall painting. I was imagining everything is various shades of yellow. I was so wrong about it. Without various browns yellow, orange and reds are quite a mess. I guess I know now why I was intimidated to make fall painting on my own. If I don’t forget about magic of brown color I will attempt couple of more autumn paintings later on.
Wonderful water reflections and wet leaves. Also, the tree shapes look very naturalistic. Great work!
@mgiese - thanks!
@dracula - thank you! This tutorial gave me a good lesson about trees and another way to paint water. It turns out that opposite to BR all brush strokes must be vertical and only surface water lines need to go be put on top horizontally.
@dracula - the fun thing I learnt about water a year ago and never tried till this painting. Probably was afraid to ruin canvas and “masterpiece” at that time and then forgot. It seems this is more traditional way of painting water.
@SunnyLady - Thanks for the insight into your process. I will try out this idea the next time I paint water!
lovely painting .. love the colours and the reflections .. great job.
@David - Thank you very much!
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Wow, it's beautiful Sunny, a real pleasure to look at.