Day 2 Afterglow on the Meadow 8x10

Hello and welcome to Day Two! I’d never seen the painting of Georges before researching this project. That i the case for quite a few of the paintings we are going to make studies after. Initially I was collecting images thinking ‘ I’ll work this one in to my usual studio practice but after I’d collected 40 to 50 I’d not seen before, the idea for this ‘Mastering George Inness series’ started to gel.

Study after George Innes: Afterglow on the Meadow 8x10 $299

This particular scene from him is very loose. It might seem that looser paintings would be easier to do studies after but in fact the opposite is the case. They are more difficult. The difficulty lies in capturing a loose feel while trying to be faithful to Inness’ original. I’ve lot’s of strategies for my approach to this challenge.

For this scene I selected a board that had a strong texture applied to it. I also decided to apply my paint far heavier than usual this meant that I had to alter my approach to the paint stokes I used. I quite happy with the end result and I deffo learned a lot which at the end of the day is the primary reason for doing this series.

George Inness - Afterglow on the Meadow

Cheers, Mike