Smeared mountains- starting a painting

in #art6 years ago

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Climbing mountains

I'm sharing with a the progress of a painting I'm currently working on. The subject of the painting that I'm focusing on at this stage is a mountain. To the left of the image the mountain is green, but on the right it sharply cuts away to black and red.

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The initial stages of creating this work involved masking off areas of the canvas, then applying layers of acrylic paint and gloss medium.

Messy mark making

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Paint was applied to the canvas using a brush, palette knife and smearing. Acrylic paint was rubbed in along the raised edges of the dried acrylic gloss medium to create areas of textured colour.
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A work in progress

When the initial layers of paint have dried it will be time to uncover the masked off areas and add more definition and details.

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What do you think so far?

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@opheliafu thank you very much dear friend for letting us know the beginning of a promising work, I really like the selected colors
I wish you a great day

I have some interesting plans for this piece, it will be fun to share the progress.

I like that you share the advance of your painting, @opheliafu, so we can appreciate the whole process and learn from it. With the color palette you're using, the mountain has not only depth but also height. I can imagine, by that trace of white, a game with the shadow. Already the drawing has flight! Greetings

It is a very interesting work in my opinion, also is something refreshing as all your works are digital arts! Is it like a way to give others a chance? Or at least so I see it in any way thanks for sharing:)