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owl painting
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Hunting barn owl
24 x 36 inches, oil on board
(designing the composition)
| The foreground is made up of frost fringed reed canary-grass and rushes. A ditch flows from the foreground into an area of marshy ground with some open water to the right. Glowing light comes from the top right of the composition catches the edges of the posts and the owl. The background of fields interspersed with reedbeds and scub will only just be visidle in the misty soft atmosphere. |
Working on the owl
The owl is focused on a sound in the rushes and I need to make sure that
the owl
is related to an actual point on the ground.
I'm now working on the actual painting board. At this stage the planning
is done using
acrylics. This photo shows how I've sketched out the tones of the
composition using pencil and brush.
I now work from the background forwards. The far distance is very soft
in the misty
atmosphere, but as I work towards the front of the painting I introduce
a little more
contrast to each layer. This helps give the landscape a feeling of depth
I now have most of the painting covered in oil. The foreground has some
deep shadows
and grassy textures for me to work into. I plan to link the warmth of
the reeds in the
backgound to the foreground by over-painting orange coloured stems catching
the sun.
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