Brett Weaver Studio

Painting Demo-Warrens Point Morning

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This is a short painting demo with a few step-by-step photos, revealing a brief look a the progression of what goes into developing and completing a painting.

This is one of the many photos I took as a reference as I was doing the 6x8 field study below.

This is the second field study I completed at Warrens Point that week. The first one was ‘Monteagle vista’ and I made the decision that I wanted to keep expanding out the view to be a wide open distant vista affect so I went to a smaller 6x8 panel just focusing mainly on design, color and value patterns and incorporating more sky and clouds. After completing the studies I went into the studio and after analyzing the photos decided I wanted to expand the view even more in my larger painting and also did a few pencil value sketches to help develop a balance between the amout of foreground and distant ground, since I wanted to have foreground to lead you into the painting but didn’t want to take away from the seemingly infinite distance I observed while there.

I first began by identifying where I was going to place the major shaped and masses with a thin wash of burnt sienna and french ultramine blue. More often I will also just use a warm sepia color mixed from my 3 primaries.

I began carefully massing in the trees and shadow patterns, focusing on warm and cool relationships of all the many greens.

...began working in the sky and foreground, paying particular attention to try to make the clouds float and the sky fade into the distance as it meets the horizon.

Next I laid in the distant ground to finally have the canvas covered and then backed away to make sure everything was harmonizing.

I slept on it a day or two, let it simmer and then came back with a fresh eye and began to repaint and pay more attention to details and work to pull together the individual areas of the painting. This is the point where I start to feel like I could stop at any time.

The Finished 24x36 Painting - ‘Warrens Point Morning’

A few days later I came back with a fresh eye and cooled down the rock to more natural gray and worked some of the foreground foliage making it lighter and more intense to bring it forward and make the valley seem even more distant....placing very little detail and emphasis on the rocks so you won’t linger and can easily just use them as a passage way into what lies beyond. At this point I decided I had said what I wanted to say with the painting and considered it finished.

9 Comments

Painter Manchester

It’s a very good painting.
You can be proud of yourself

Home Electronics

The last picture looks pretty much the same.

Electrician London

I keep coming back for more delightful paintings and I am never dissapointed. Excellent work, I wish I had the patience that you must have.

Julliette Carignan

Wonderful painting, Brett!  I’m inspired.

Boston DUI lawyer

What an amazing progression. The painting actually looks better than the picture. How long did the entire process take?

Danny Jones

I learn something from you every time.I like backing away for a day or two and getting a fresh look.

Burning Calories

Hey brett. You’ve got skills bro, I thought the last picture was the real one. Very nice.

Caster the Vigrx Plus guy

Nice painting you have there Brett, it really look beautiful and you paint naturally =)

Carol Berning

Brett,

This isa lovely painting, and I love seeing your process.

Thanks!

Carol