Wednesday, 11 November 2009

 

What’s on the Easel

 

 

 

    With a coffee in my hand this morning I started working on a smaller 11x14 coastal painting that needed a few changes.  Southam Gallery, my local gallery here in Salt Lake City is having a show this weekend and they wanted a few more beach scenes.  They seem to do well with European subject matter.

 

 

    Well I had a white hat on the girl walking down to the shore and it just got lost against the background sand color.  She lost the hat and I gave her some flowing dark colored hair, which contrasts better against the lighter background. 

 

 

    After I finished off that one, I turned the radio on to X96, my local modern rock station and put yesterdays painting back up on the easel.  I worked on the sky and background trees, trying to finish that area off as best I could.  It’s more of a logistical process, since my foreground will be filled up with boats, masts and rigging, any changes to the background would be next to impossible.  I just have to be sure to keep the atmospheric quality in the background so it doesn’t compete with all the foreground boats.

 

    And by the way, this is the third time I am making this entry.  There seems to be a problem with Angelfire.com, the people hosting the blog site.  I tried to go in and edit something in this entry and clicked the “save changes” button, only to have it delete the entire entry……….this happed twice now!

    Yes, they do have a customer support center; it takes three days for a response!  If I lived in Seattle, most likely moss would be growing on me by the time the problem was addressed to.

 

 

Richard Boyer

http://richardboyerart.com/