Volcanic Falls. Painting #81.

“We don’t make mistakes, we have happy accidents.” If you’ve ever watched Bob Ross, you’ve probably heard him say that a time or two. In the case of this painting, that’s exactly what happened. A happy accident.

Volcanic Falls is painting #81. It is an original painting inspired by a photo found online. It’s not a painting of the exact photo but the content of the photo was the inspiration for this painting. My original intent was to combine a similar falls scene, like my last painting, and the volcanic mountain in the background. Well it didn’t exactly work out. I’ll explain below.

Colors

• Bright Red
• Cadmium Yellow
• Dark Sienna
• Indian Yellow
• Midnight Black
• Phthalo Blue
• Sap Green
• Titanium Hwite
• Van Dyke Brown
• Yellow Ochre
• Black Gesso
• Liquid Clear
• Liquid Hwite!

Equipment

• 2 Inch Brush
• 1 Inch Brush
• #6 Fan Brush
• Large Palette Knife
• Script Liner Brush

I have mixed feelings about this one. I like it overall but at the time of painting, for some reason, I wasn’t really feeling it. I think I was just having one of those days or weeks. The painting just wasn’t bringing me much joy.

It was fun in the way that it was challenging and trying to figure out what to do and how to make my vision work. I envisioned the bottom half to look like the falls in my last one but I wanted to have the volcanic mountain overlooking it. So I tried that and it didn’t work. So I had to scrape off what I had done and cover it up with straight green foliage. As I’m writing this, I’m looking at the painting thinking how I could or could have made it work. I think it just hit me. I might give it a shot again but I’m apprehensive about redoing paintings now unless they’re a Bob Ross replica.

It also just occurred to me that Bob does a painting where there’s a mountain kind of peaking out of the background. I’ll have to find it and try that technique to make my vision work. Stay tuned for that.

I almost forgot. In this painting, I tried out a new Bob Ross brush I ordered. I went ahead and ordered the old Round Brush.  It works great!  I didn’t use it to it’s full potential but for what I did use it on, it was great.  Can you see where I might have used the round brush?  Can’t wait to try it out properly.  There are a few paintings where Bob has used the round brush but I didn’t have it so I used the standard one inch brush.  Now I don’t have to improvise any more! I highly suggest giving the round brush a try.  

Hope you like this one.  If you like it so much that you want to buy it, you can find it and many others in my Art Shop.

Happy painting!