Day Five: River Landscape by Charles Warren Eaton
Welcome to day five of 100 days of tonalism.
Painted after - River Landscape by Charles Warren Eaton, Study by M Francis McCarthy - Size 5x7, Oil on wood panel
Today's study is 'River Landscape' by Charles Warren Eaton,
Ah, a green and pleasant land indeed. I'm not sure where Charles saw this scene, there is not much information on it and it's not typical of what he's famous for. I liked it though and it was fun to paint.
Charles Warren Eaton was an important tonalist from 1880 or so, to 1910. he was quite popular in his day and was well regarded as a painter. One of the few painters that George Inness admired. Charles shared a studio space with George Inness in New York for a time in the 1880's.
Heres a link to a good overview of Eaton's work and heres a link to the page where I found the original image that I created a study of.
Todays video has a slightly better audio commentary. Unfortunately, my video editor won't let me play the video while recording audio. Something to do with the visuals being sped up by 12 times I'll wager. No great loss really as 5 minutes goes by fast as
Cheers,
M Francis McCarthy
A bit about River Landscape by Charles Warren Eaton.
This was fun to do and fell together quickly. I did a second color pass on this that increased the contrast and chroma. I utilized a fairly thin wash of a mixed green over my sienna under painting and then went over that with some bolder greens. This is a pretty cool technique that I developed while painting this series; one of the techniques that I've brought to my own work recently.
Like I have in the previous studies, I stripped out a lot of yellow tinting that was in the reference image. I modulated a bit of blue at the top too using my trusty artistic licence.
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Original painting - River landscape by Charles Warren Eaton