Geraniums

What exactly is it about Geraniums that I feel so drawn to them. Lots of summer flowers abound, yet I really favor these simple garden beauties to paint. This painting was done from the pre planning painting I did on my I pad last week.

Sailing Into The Sunset

Sailing Into the Sunset.

Original oil painting. Size 11 x 14. Gallery wrapped canvas.

Finished painting. Added a slight orange wash to tone down the blues. Shadows to people and landmasses. Scroll down, way down and see the 11 step process from start to finish of this painting. Any questions?

Step 11

Added some highlight to water, more definition on boat, note the shadows on boat, sails.

Step 10

More white on the clouds, moving in circles, with an upward motion (the way these clouds appear to be moving, from the center- moving out and up.) Note the value on the land mass, lighter above, darker shades below. Start long broad strokes of all the blues and a little lemon yellow with the rhythm of the water gently suggested.

White on the boat, suggest people on the boat.

Step 9

Add some yellow, green, to the land mass on the horizon line, start working in the white for the clouds when the wash of colors have dried.

Oil step 7

Added washes of blues to the water area of the canvas. Left light a small area for the sail reflection, and the sunset reflection.