Cee’s Black and White Challenge this week is an open topic. I finally got away on a mini vacation this past week. By Saturday, the rain was moving in and the weather got wild! Ah, but the ocean is one of my favorite subjects!
Tag: storm
Painting (18) The Wild Atlantic Way
I’ve been wanting to experiment with monochrome painting using ‘black’ made by mixing other colors together. One combination is to use Phthalo blue, burnt umber and cadmium red in fairly equal parts. I expected to get a purplish ‘black’ but ended up with a deep blue-green ‘black’ instead. My plan was to paint “Passchendaele” – the sea of mud, the burned tree stumps and the water filled shell holes. But this color just had ‘ocean’ written all over it. I’ll have to try again for that purplish ‘black’. Meanwhile, here is my stormy sea painting; I’d like to imagine it’s just off the West Coast of Ireland:
Painting (2) Stormy Sea
A follow up to the Seven Days, Day Five post…. this is the painting on the easel. I painted the stormy Atlantic Ocean from our Outer Banks trip earlier this month. The weather wasn’t all that great, but I managed to get some interesting photos to copy in pencil, charcoal and paint! The ocean is very picturesque when it’s angry…