Kansas Twilight Stream For this painting I was stumped. I realized I had one landscape, two barn paintings, and three with water. Looking over them I felt as if my landscape was missing something, and that's when I knew I wanted another waterway painting. I found a photograph from a Kansas photographer that was overlooking a lake. It was a dark sunset and so I realized I just wanted to use the composition. The sky I took from a painting with a similar layout. I took a lot of details from my first lake painting
0 Comments
Lake Perry Sunrise I had in mind that I wanted to do a painting of a lake scene. The problem I had was deciding which one. Luckily I had taken sunrise photos while on a camping trip at Lake Perry three years ago. This painting I definitely struggled with. I found I love painting sky's and water but rocks not so much. This is one where I played around a bit with the arrangement. After several layers and zooming into the photograph I was able to settle on the correct shadows. Adding water lines I feel added a nice touch. This has personal meaning to me. It may not be this exact spot, but this lake has held so many memories of fishing and camping. Not to mention I met my husband here, it's where we first started dating, and were he proposed.
I'm so excited to announce this painting is my first sale. An amazing friend purchased it after my Art Walk debut. I'm so glad it found a deserving home. Pond at Dusk As I was aware of the downtown Art Walk I knew I was going to have to crank out some paintings if I was going to participate. I hadn't painted anything since I was in college and I had honestly never painting anything of my own creation. My first attempt at painting to find my own style was this. I searched for inspiration of paintings and finally settled on one that made me feel as I could actually be apart of it. As a photographer I knew that I would be important to me to believe I could actually take a picture to match my creations. This painting had a man in a boat fishing which I knew was right up my alley, the fact there was water was my biggest seller. One thing you may notice from my paintings is a overlying theme of yellow. I really have been brought back to my faith and the incorporation of sunlight in each of my paintings has been a part of my healing.
|
Andrea Stitt
A behind the scenes look at the creation of each painting as well as adventures in being an artist. Archives
December 2017
Categories |