The Painting Journey of the Texas Red Horse Trailer

As I stated before, this is the ugly stage of the painting. All paintings start with this ugly stage. This painting floated in the ugly stage longer than most.

Stage Two:

From the last painting several more graded washes were applied to the sky. The frisket is still applied to protect the white paper for the fence post. Frisket was removed from the roof of the barn and the metal roof was painted. The roof is good; I am satisfied with the end results.

When painting the material and texture of the any roof in watercolor, you basically have one shoot at the intended objective or this area of the painting can become and look overworked.

Again, look at the VALUE or contrast between the roof of the barn and the sky. This is all pre-planned and becomes the focus of applying the graded washes. When finished you want to the light area again a darker area of the barn roof. In this case, the plan is working out just fine. 

Bored playing with the sky the distant landscape was introduced. This was great, one shot, one time and I love it. This distant landscape is a keeper.

 Thanks for hanging in on this journey. No one ever said art was easy.

Will post again in two days. Enjoy this progressive journey with me on my Texas Red Horse Trailer.

Mary Dove 

Sedona Artist

Bye for now. See you on Sunday night!