I recently painted another painting for my wife. This is the second largest painting I have even painted (about 120cm by 60cm) and the scale is quite challenging given that my usual paintings are around a rather compact 17cm by 51cm. It is difficult to scale up and still achieve realism. Well, I think it worked. I would have liked a brighter feel to the painting, but I struggled to increase the hue, or lightness/brightness of the work.
Below is the painting. I painted with Windsor and Newton’s Winston oil paints. The bottom image is the reference painting I did on my iPad. It turned out to be a key to getting realism into the foreground and the middle ground (the rocks).
The painting makes me long back to my beloved mountains in the Western Cape in South Africa.
The final oil painting
The reference digital painting.
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