Old picture to finish

I was going through my pictures in storage last night and I came upon this. Followers of this blog (are there any) will recognize it as this piece that I was working on back last summer. 
This is a bad image that I photographed this morning with my cell phone.
Anyway, back then I was getting rather [...]

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Progress on Mt Meron path picture

What you see here is progress of yesterday evening. From a blank canvas to this took about two hours, maybe a bit less.
I started with a phthalo blue underpaint wash (which you can see poking through the shady bit of the path at the bottom). I then started from the top down. Soon I realized [...]

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Painting progress

Quite a lot to report.
I have been busy painting this week and I finished up the Huleh Valley picture as you can see on the right. I like it a lot. It has a lot of depth and that misty distance came out fantastically. My only reservations may be in the row of trees at [...]

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Hulah Valley – almost there

As you can see the Hulah Valley picture has been coming on nicely. Unfortunately the photo is still with my crappy camera on my Nokia 6123 phone (which is not bad as two year old phone cameras go… but all the same not quite up to notch in terms of picture quality) as I haven’t [...]

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Hulah sunrise misty morning

More progress last night. Again a crappy picture because my camera is in for repair. The picture is shapping up well and I am quite happy with the progress.
A few technical details. I started on an underpaint of cadmium yellow light (I bought cadmium yellow instead of azo yellow by mistake but they match pretty [...]

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Sunrise on Hulah progress

A bad photo of the progress I have made on the Sunrise in the Hulah Valley picture. As you can see I have blocked in a whole lot of stuff with underpainting.
The photo is bad because my camera is in for repair and I took this on my phone.

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Sunrise in the Hulah Valley

Behold, my next picture!
I just started on this last night. There were several contenders for which picture from my recent vacation would make it to be my next piece. After my last piece that I haven’t finished, I decided against doing anything watery, thought there were some contenders. What was left in therunning was this, [...]

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Back from Vacation

As the title says I am back from vacation (that’s why I haven’t posted for a week). We were up north and stayed in Rosh Pina in a great zimmer (that’s a holiday apartment in English) called “Ruach Beharim” which I heartily recommend. If you look at the pictures you can kind of see what [...]

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New picture

I have started work on a new picture. The reference is what you see here on the right (cut slightly differently, but basically the same).
What I have done so far is to block in the water in glazes of phthalo blue, sap greep and burnt umber. The style and technique so far remind me [...]

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Progress on olive grove picture

Last night I actually got some painting done (gasp!) for the first time in quite a while. I have had a rather busy time over the last week or two but there is a bit of a respite right now and next week is looking even quieter so I hope to get some more painting [...]

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