Day Two: Arthur Frank Mathews Summertime
Hey all, welcome to day two of 100 days of tonalism.
Painted after - Summertime by Arthur Frank Mathews , Study by M Francis McCarthy - Size 5x5, Oil on wood panel
Arthur Frank Mathews "Summertime" was fun to do. I really like the 5x5 inch format. It's big enough to paint with a #4 brush but too small to get fussy about things. There's more than a few paintings in this series that I sort of forced into the square format. Fortunately, I possess an "Artistic Licence" that permits this sort of activity.
So, we're settling in now folks. Getting the video thing sorted. All videos will feature me chatting about the painting I've done a study of and other assorted text and subtext. These videos are not long most will be no longer than seven minutes or less.
They are radically sped up versions of my original composite videos. In some ways they're better as they require less patience to view than a video of me painting for an hour and a half. Mind you those composite videos are at double speed due to the videos awesome ability to eat up available hard drive space.
Cheers,
M Francis McCarthy
A bit about this painting, I've got audio on the video now so I may phase out this aspect of the blog post but for now I will keep adding a few comments about each study at the bottom of each post as well as an image of my original reference.
I was pretty happy with this after the first color pass but decided a second go around would be wise. I strive to keep all of my paintings fresh so if all is well with one pass I leave things alone. This painting really perked up with the second pass as you will see in the video. I bumped up the colors and also the intensity of the lights. Looks like I de-yellowed the chroma as well.
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Summertime by Arthur Frank Mathews