Steps in Painting Colorado Mountain Stream II - 11" x 14" Oil

 

Step 1 – I decided to try an approach that I had recently read about. The idea is to under paint the compliments of the actual colors. So that’s what I did as I blocked in the shapes.

       Step 2 – I then began to come back over the wet paint with the actual colors trying not to mix them up more than necessary.

       Step 3 – I continued adding actual colors over compliments, refining the shapes of the mountains and foothills.

      Step 4 – Next, I refined the far away mountains and began to add color to the stream bed, indicating rocks, shadows, and surface reflections. I added some color to the bank of the 

stream and I added rocks sticking up out of the shallow water.

     Step 5 – I then worked on indicating some tree shapes on the foothills and I added color to the 

trees in the mid-ground. I continued developing the stream and added the far away bank.

    Step 6 – I added some darker blues to the sky and some lighter values above the tops of the mountains and foothills. I continued developing the trees in the mid-ground, adding tree trunks, more color, and shadows. I put more boulders into the foothills and I added more sky color in the water. I added tree branches and leaves along the foreground.

Step 7 – I added more rocks sticking up out of the water where the stream flows beyond the trees coming from the left. I added reflection into the water where the stream begins to curve and come forward. I added shadows to the rocks along the bank. I added more highlights to the trees and leaves, adjusting values here and there and then signed the piece.

Colorado Mountain Stream II - Available

I love the fall when colors are their most vivid and I love mountains and streams. I painted the original Colorado Mountain Stream in 2009 and I have been wanting to paint another fall mountain stream painting for some time. I went back through my photos and found one which inspired me and now I have completed the second landscape painting in this series. This landscape painting is framed in a gold plein air frame.

Color, contrast, and cropping are close to the original but not exact.

Contact the artist, Daniel Fishback for information about this painting by email: dfis...@charter.net or by cell: 314-276-8880.

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Daniel Fishback - Artist Saint Louis, Missouri
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