Thursday 31 May 2012

Happy Endings, a work in progress

After having read the book "Night over Water" I wanted to pick a scene to paint for the Book Challenge on Painting Friends.

But the scene I fancied - the plane flying at night, I couldn't find a copyright free pic of the plane. As the planes no longer exist, I doubt I ever will.

There was a love triangle in the novel and a surprise element made it work out for the best - and as this was a luxury voyage, I decided to paint three glasses of pink champagne and call it Happy Endings - and chucked in the cherry as the surprise element .

The drawing


The masking



Areas painted with new gamboge, followed by a mix of Winsor red true and Quin red. These were done to give me a feel of where I was in the painting. I'll be painting light to dark with the rest :)


More to follow another day :)

14 comments:

  1. For a moment I thought you had a margarita party that I wasn't invited to! Good to know it's not the case :D

    You have a great start here, I love that you've make it dynamic ading those splashes, can't wait for more!

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  2. Pat,
    What and ending in the making. I loved that drawing. I can already feel that super slow motion photogrpahy kind of feel here. Waiting for it now.

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  3. Very nice! (I’ll take a glass, please!)

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  4. This is looking stunning pat! Can't wait to see more of it. :)) And I've always been a sucker for a good love triangle. ;)

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  5. I love it! And I like the story behind the painting! Cheers!!

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  6. Oh yes the cherry which dips into the glass is the real element of surprise, I look forward to seeing the end.

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  7. It is nice to see the stages of this painting growing step by step.

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  8. This looks like its going to be AMAZING! I can't wait to see it finished! I love how the cherry is making all of those splashes :0))

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  9. It's looking good so far. Can't wait to see the rest

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  10. This is very cool, Pat. I like it, and I LOVE the cherry. ;)

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  11. This will be gorgeous..I know it !

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  12. Oh, you have me on the edge of my seat ... can't wait to see how this comes out.

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  13. I can't wait to see this one! So far, it is looking great!

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  14. glasses / champagne is hard to paint. it has to be convincing or its subtle storytelling will fail.

    can't wait to see the final output.

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