Today, I will talk about part of the process to making art. I do a lot of sketching. Sometimes I end up developing some of the sketches into ideas for oil painting. This weekend I attended a two day oil painting class with Armand Cabrera at the Great Falls Foundation of Art in Great Falls, Virginia. I worked on this on Saturday. I used the preliminary as a bit of a guide. I then worked in the initial scrub of painting. The background was too bright and I took Armand's advice and pushed the tones down by greying them into a fairly tight range and then adjusted them to draw in the low tide exposed shoreline. I added the posts of the channel markers and the number board, then I developed the water in the channel. Overall, I am pretty happy with the results. Late this week I will add the eagles.
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