One Month of Painting

Large paintings are like marathons. Or, like the philosophy of Dory from Finding Nemo. The point is, you just have to keep painting.


These photos were taken over a period of one month.


The working time between these two images is just over 40 hours.


Aside from not getting frustrated at the grinding pace, the main challenge is keeping the foreground tree lines clean.


They are defined by the negative space of the green, and after each small section, must be scraped back into existence using a razor (especially the smaller branches).


This way, there are channels for the trees in the background paint which in the end will create a flat painting, contradictorily making it appear more three dimensional.


But the nice part in this long stretch of painting green is finding the areas that I missed (either aspen tree or leaves) and filling them in, either with yellow or with the absence of paint.


And yes, filling in the last of the green was a wicked exciting day!


-jb.