Wednesday, September 6, 2017

Canoe oil painting

I wanted to paint an old canoe like the aluminum Grumman canoe I grew up paddling on the Black River. Since we're coming into autumn, I of course needed to throw in those fierce fall colors. I started by painting the canoe in acrylics.


The full painting is a 16x20 wrapped canvas. I definitely learned a few things that I'd do differently the next time around. But that's all part of this experimentation. Below is the final result of the full painting and a close up of that same canoe area. B




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