This is a plein air attempt at Bear Creek, Austin. I sat in the shade of some lovely oak trees, phew it was hot that day! I was not thrilled with the gloomy tones in this, so I placed some orange into the foreground, and some purples and blues in the middle distance and background, it helped I think. Green is always a color I can't deal with, and let's face it, Texas landscapes are various shades of green, green, green! I did like the filtered light though, that's why I chose this vantage point.Texas artist Rae Andrews, paintings in all media and genre. She is an Australian ex-pat who moved to Maui in the early 1990's where she owned two art galleries .. she now resides in Texas where she conducts workshops both in the USA, Australia and Europe.
Thursday, May 21, 2009
Bear Creek Estate
This is a plein air attempt at Bear Creek, Austin. I sat in the shade of some lovely oak trees, phew it was hot that day! I was not thrilled with the gloomy tones in this, so I placed some orange into the foreground, and some purples and blues in the middle distance and background, it helped I think. Green is always a color I can't deal with, and let's face it, Texas landscapes are various shades of green, green, green! I did like the filtered light though, that's why I chose this vantage point.
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11" x 14" pastel on sanded board
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2 comments:
This is just super. You wouldn't know that green is so..... green. Nice painting!
Thanks Jo, as I said (though),I really don't like painting a green painting, hard to bypass here in Texas though.
Hope you are painting up a storm over there!
Rae
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