A Couple Of Detail Shots...

...from my recently completed painting.


Here is the sky going in.


The sky and horizon line complete, you can see the subtle curve of the earth.


Not the best shot, but here the water and reflections are going in, with the gradient curved to pull your eye back into the painting.


Water, reflections, and most marsh complete, the foreground grasses are ready to be painted.


Notice the darkening from back to front (for the next blog post) which builds perspective along with the sharp blades of individual grass standing up to define their space.


Finally, the grass is done and the second layer of paint complete!

-jb.

My 100th Landscape...

...is finished! And it only took me 14 years to get to this number! Irony aside, I think it is the untold hours in front an easel that I spend on each painting that make my paintings distinctly my paintings, so I care not that it has taken this long. Mainly because the best part is, I am still learning! And I put almost all of what I have learned into making this one:


-jb.

Sometimes Life Gets In The Way...

...of painting. Sometimes painting gets in the way of blogging. Then sometimes your camera phone dies and all of it becomes just that much harder. And sometimes are these times. But, as I pool through digital piles of various photos and try and remember where I left off, then figure out how to start again, all I can promise is my blogging will be back with a vengeance. Tomorrow...

-jb.