This is the last of the storm series, I had a bunch of extra paint when I finished yesterdays painting and I thought I might as well have some fun with it.
Another big one today. I've had these canvases sitting around forever because I really hate painting on canvas, but this sort of painting on them isn't so bad.
The thing I miss the most about Denver is definitely the summer thunderstorms. It's nice that the beach is here...but not when "May Gray" and "June Gloom" have turned into "Fogust"... I haven't heard of one for July, but that was cloudy too. Now if it was thunderstorming here I wouldn't have a complaint at all :)
I thought it would be fun to try a still life using the palette knife... the first photo is the finished painting and the one below it is how I started it out. I had a specific idea of how I wanted it to turn out, and I thought the best way to accomplish that would be by having a pretty good underpainting first. I don't really like leaving parts of the board exposed, and by painting it all in...
