This started off as a single exercise in painting clouds in acrylic following one of Jerry Yarnell's videos. I continued with further tutorials on trees and mountains using the same board and ended up with this painting.
I photographed the painting and took the colour out using the computer. This was interesting because as you can see in the picture below, what I've managed to create is a painting largely in the mid-tone range.
In this final picture I've tried to add more of a tonal range by changing the values using software. Whilst the painting is just a series of exercises, seeing it in black and white is a great way to highlight the values and see where you are going wrong.
On a personal note, I can't believe it's been nearly 4 months since my last post, it's so easy to get out of the habit. In my defence, I have been working on a couple of projects including learning modelling techniques in Maya and putting together a book or some might say, a glorified photo album for our 25th wedding anniversary which was in April. And did I mention I had a cold for a whole month! Any-who, I definitely have the painting bug at the minute and the sun is shining so it's time to 'make hay'.
