High Over The Allegheny
Sometimes I get on a roll with my art. I had decided to enter the Pennsylvania Waterfowl Stamp selection event with a Hooded Merganser. (See post on the Hooded Merganser painting.) Upon completion of that painting, I elected to do another painting of a Canada Goose. The event allows the artist to submit two pieces for selection consideration. Once the idea was sketched, I quickly determined the title to be, “High Over the Allegheny.”
The above sketch was the beginning of this painting. I thought, at first, to do fog in the lower terrain of the landscape and over the river.
I liked the initial idea and sketch, and I would soon transfer this sketch onto a prepared, with gesso, Masonite panel of the proper size as per the rules.
The slapping on of the paint began. I used acrylic paints to do this art.
The “slapping on the paint” beginning.
After about ten or twelve hours the painting is shaping up. Notice chalk lines on the piece to help me with direction and visualize contours and shapes.
The detail is being completed on the Canada Goose, but I still have some time before I can say, finished!
I finished this painting in 13 days. Like I said above I was on a roll with an inspiration to paint.
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