a Soup to Nuts WW1 Aviation Painting

iart7 · 8 August 2007, 10:01 AM

it is very rare that a painting works so well in both landscape and portrait formats. i was looking at picture posted on page 10, http://i138.photobucket.com/albums/q...may042007d.jpg. you cropped it perfectly!

when you get to making prints (you are right?) you can sell a bunch of the landscape version too.

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Originally Posted by TAZ

Remember, too, that Leader's style is "painterly", which is one of the charms of her work.

most definately, i was thinking that Leader's style is reminiscent of the Impressionists, in particular Edouard Manet, IMO. Leader, do you believe in re-incarnation?

AAC Cadet Leader · 24 August 2007, 12:12 PM

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Originally Posted by iart7

it is very rare that a painting works so well in both landscape and portrait formats. i was looking at picture posted on page 10, http://i138.photobucket.com/albums/q...may042007d.jpg. you cropped it perfectly!

when you get to making prints (you are right?) you can sell a bunch of the landscape version too.

most definately, i was thinking that Leader's style is reminiscent of the Impressionists, in particular Edouard Manet, IMO. Leader, do you believe in re-incarnation?

not in my case. i think it's my first time here, but thanks for the undeserved comparison

okay. back from a two week florida vacation with my kids, it's time to make more progress on my commissioned paintings. not happy with the nieuport in the background of this painting, i'm going to paint over it, swapping it for a differerent type. this morning i made a rough pencil sketch from my favorite of the ten photos of moriane sauliniers sent to me by my wonderfully patient art patron.

this little thumbnail sketch will be the approximate actual size of the painted version. time to find my dreaded bifocals and magnifying glass again.

AAC Cadet Leader · 5 September 2007, 11:05 AM

1. say a last goodbye to the nieuport. boo hoo.

2. projecting the moraine over top of it.

2b. close-up of the projection over the painting:

AAC Cadet Leader · 5 September 2007, 11:19 AM

3. gone with a few strokes of a wet oil mix of prussian green, burnt umber, alizaron crimson payne's grey and zinc white. (white specs are light reflections on wet paint):

4. if you look closely and past all the white light reflections off the wet canvas, you'll see the start of the moraine:

Taz · 5 September 2007, 11:47 AM

Leader- Looks great. The Morane Type As were really pretty aircraft and your drawing captures that beauty. Just bqack from 3 weeks vacation myself.

Taz
Terry Phillips

AAC Cadet Leader · 15 October 2007, 11:03 PM

don't carry your freshly-squirted oil palette on your dashboard when you are carrying your painting on the passenger seat floor...

http://i138.photobucket.com/albums/q...esseroops3.jpg

http://i138.photobucket.com/albums/q...esseroops6.jpg

all's well that ends well. the paint splats were easily removable over the well-cured paint and they miraculously missed hitting the morane saulinier that i had put two more hours into today. whew!

AAC Cadet Leader · 30 October 2007, 04:01 PM

Taz · 30 October 2007, 08:48 PM

Leader- Looking good. Those Moranes were certainly good looking and they built ~1000 of them, three times as many as the Fokker Dr.I.

Taz
Terry Phillips

AAC Cadet Leader · 31 October 2007, 07:43 AM

glad you like it, taz. i'm going to add a bit more shading to the underside of wing and perhaps lighten up the brass behind it. make the shadow beneath it a bit darker to plant it better. it measures less than 3" on the canvas, so i'm using my two-hair paintbrush on it.

AAC Cadet Leader · 31 October 2007, 08:04 AM

oops duplicate post