New Project

The next project I decided to attempt in painting was based on several things. I was really enjoying my photography, especially since my kids and I are engaged in an ongoing Picture-a-day event of our own making. I was taking some pictures that, while I didn't use for the pic-a-day, I still wanted to memorialize and thought that it might be nice to paint them.

As we were walking around a local park, I was sharing with my children how my grandmother used to take us there. Most especially, she would take my brother fishing there. And while I have no memory of participating in this, I could nevertheless picture it in my mind. I took several shots of the area, as well as having some of my daughters pose at the bridge in the park, so that I had an idea of how to manage this. I'm not thrilled with the end result and have decided to keep it for now.

This is the initial picture that inspired my memories of my grandmother.

I decided that this was sort of the perspective of the bridge that I wanted to paint from.

As usual, I started with the sky and then began painting in the far landscape. I sketched in a rough bridge and some figures so that I knew where to paint around. I used mainly acrylics, but used some pastels for the tiny work and the fishing rod. My brother laughed when he saw it, because he remembered having a blue and white striped shirt when he was that young, but not red shorts or a baseball cap. I guess I got something right.

And this is the finished product. As I said, not my best. Not the worst, but perspective and angles are something that I can do a lot of work on!