Fields of Gold

The finished painting -

Fields of Gold

I wonder, was it what you expected?
It will be added to my gallery site, where you can see all of my previous paintings!
that's here, at Pat Elliott Paintings.

Pouring FOG

Here I go with another painting using the pouring technique..  this time I am being very daring and not having a drawing on the paper at all.

I want to see what I "feel" this painting should be.

So here is the first photo, just some masking fluid, poured onto dry paper - and combed downwards - with a hair comb, yes!

and the second, after the paint is poured.
I stared at the paper, this way and that, trying to decide what to paint as a subject. 

I decided that the paper should be sited this way up - and that the left hand side reminded me of wheat or barley blowing in the wind..

I wonder if you can see that?
I wonder what you would have made of this background?

Tomorrow you will find out what I did - because I took this background to art club, and finished the whole painting within the two hour class!

Here's looking at you!

This beautiful pink hydrangea came with us from the old house to this new one.

It was white with a hint of blue in the old house - but flourished to a glorious pink when planted in this new environment.

And here's my darling Missy, who also flourished when planted in a new environment!
 
Here's looking at you, kid! 

Pond Life

More plants were painted, this time in the foreground, a darker mix of greens. Then some rusty red spiky grasses in the very front.
The upright sagitta leaves had a couple more washes to define them more - and then I painted their shadows onto the statue,

All this adds up to my finished painting -

Pond Life

Pond Life will be added to my permanent gallery site

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painting the plants

In this stage, lots seems to be happening, as I paint the plants in.

The plant behind is painted in a pale grey-green to make it appear further away in the distance.
The one to the side of the statue is a green-grey mix (more green than grey) .
This is because I want it to appear closer than the farthest plant, but not too close. That honour is reserved for the foreground plants and the tall leaves. So they must be more noticeable than the others.

I have also defined the features on the statue some more, with further layers of grey.

the painting continues

and in this stage, you can see that I have added a pale grey wash all over the statue and am going back in - starting with the top feather - to deepen the colours and produce a three dimensional effect.

Statue by the Pond

I am continuing to paint the statue from my garden.
He is situated just behind the container pond I have on the patio - so he appears to be peeking out from behind the greenery!

I had painted the background with washes of French Ultramarine and yellow ochre. 

From there, I painted the first washes of sap green on the upright leaves of the sagitta pond plant.