Hidden Forest River. Painting #40. A Story of Acrylic and Oil Paint Teamwork.
Hidden Forest River
Date Painted: April 19, 2018
Size: 16 x 20 Canvas
Time to start working on the ole blog again. I have finally moved back into my house after almost 5 months of displacement. The house is not 100% complete but it’s livable. Just waiting on a major kitchen item, some finishing work inside and then some exterior work. While away, I managed to do a little updating because I had some of my photos saved in my media library. Then I ran out of material and had to wait to get back home.
Travel into the density of an evening grove and discovers the beauty of a gentle, hushed rippling river.
I remember when I painted this one. I was on a bit of a hiatus for no particular reason. The last painting prior to this was done in February. Why did I go so long without painting? I really can’t say. It may have been when I was looking back at all my paintings and realized that I hadn’t painted in a while. Whatever the case it had been far too long between paintings.
When I take a break from painting, I like to get back into it by following along with Bob. This one is from S27E12 of The Joy of Painting. I chose to do this one because the gesso under paint looked cool and I wanted to try out those effortless rocks.
Here are the colors and equipment used.
Colors
- White Gesso
- Black Gesso
- Liquid Clear
- Bright Red
- Cadmium Yellow
- Dark Sienna
- Midnight Black
- Phthalo Blue
- Phthalo Green
- Prussian Blue
- Sap Green
- Titanium Hwite
- Van Dyke Brown
Equipment
optional if you don’t want to use the black gesso
I’m pleased with this on overall. There’s like one area I think could be improved upon. The most challenging part of this painting was the gesso under painting. I had to mix the black and white to get the right shade of grey for some parts of the trees. That took a little while to do. It was a fun painting to do. I enjoyed trying that double loading technique on the filbert brush. I wasn’t as effortless as Bob but the technique worked.
You may have seen the gif of him making it look effortless.
Give that a try. You may not make it look so easy but the technique does work.
I hope you enjoy this painting. Have any questions or comments? Let me know. Want to buy this painting or another? Check out my Art store or get this one from the link below.
Hidden Forest River.
Happy Painting!
Update!
I don’t usually do this but I went back and fixed the painting. Here’s the updated version. What do you think? Which version is better?
