Prepped and ready for the Egret

The Marsh Painting,16 x 20 on canvas

More layers and new work on foreground.
Additional layers to follow and decision as to whether or not  to include the egret in this painting, or just start another painting ,
as the storm in this piece has taken over as the focal point.
The decision was made to go forward  with Egret .

Marsh

The background to the marsh painting is nearly completed.
I have revised it to include details of the cumulonimbus thunderstorm clouds, clustered in the distance.
The far end of the clouds from this vantage point  fade into the distance near the horizon.
The beveled look  to the  horizon is not actually painted that way.
Will adjust and correct to true view in the in the  image software at next posting.

Background on marsh painting nearly finished

Louisiana marsh study

Through this study, getting down the basics of tone, color, sky - water marsh, and background, for a marsh landscape, that might include an Egret

Lake Pontchartrain seawall

New study
Lake Pontchartrain seawall

more progress on wine study

Cork - Acrylic on paper

 

Practice  tones study for future wine painting

New Orleans Street car Acrylic on canvas

New Orleans Streetcar

Acrylic on canvas.
An  old favorite of tourists and locals.  A work in progress view  of this  impressionistic New Orleans Street car. So far several layers applied to emphasize dark an light tones. Have applied several highlights.

Lake Pontchartrain

 

A few more details added to Lake Pontchartrain's surface

Lake Pontchartrain

Decided to take the Lake Pontchartrain painting to a whole new level.
I've added waves in the foreground, which then necesitated  adjustments to the background, reflective
more of a churning lake, underneath breezy conditions.
Click on image for a larger view of waves.

Another layer over the Lake Water

Lake Pontchartrain

Lake Pontchartain sky/seascape

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Finally getting the sky -cloud look striving for in this in progress  

16 x 20 canvas, piece  on Lake Pontchartrain.

The photo for this piece  is looking north out onto the lake on

New Orleans' Lakefront seawall.

Back to starting over on the water. so the water shows only the 

under painting in this stage. I might ad a sailboat in the distance before 

calling it done.

Fisher

9x 12 on canvas board

Lake Pontchartrain

First in  a series of Paintings centered around  Lake Pontchartrain
Acrylic  on 16 x 20 " canvas

And yet a few more layers focusing more definition to the "Apple Study"

Apple Study

Several more layers, and highlights added to the apple study.
I am almost comfortable with beginning the  larger version on canvas

Apple Study Acrylic on Canvas paper in progress

 

Several store bought apples on the counter caught my attention as  an obvious  subject for a large still life painting so I arranged two of those  apples and took about  50 photos. From those photos I  came up with a great looking backilt setting for those two apples. Above is the apple on the left from that photo in this in-progress study, on canvas paper. I am using the apple  as the practice run. The larger canvas painting will have both apples

A little more progress on the Candlestick phone