Saturday, February 02, 2013

Colorado Barn - WIP 1

I decided to add some more WIPs to my blog, so here goes with my current one. This is from a photo I took from the highway traveling from Pagosa Springs, CO to Chama, NM two years ago. I have been wanting to get back into more sepia paintings since I enjoy those so much; so this is a quarter-sheet study for what I hope will be a larger painting, maybe half-sheet at least. I did this totally wet-in-wet and like to set the lights and mid tones first, then go back and refine those tones once I get the darkest darks added. This barn has some very dark areas in it so I will work on those next, before doing anything else with the rest of the painting. I like the looseness of this so far.

3 comments:

Vicki Greene said...

I always love your sepia paintings and this one is looking good already!

RH Carpenter said...

Looking good - and you do so well with the sepia paintings!

Watercolors by Susan Roper said...

Thanks, gals! I will continue to go forth with this one, I like it so far!