Day Twenty Eight: Landscape by Percy Gray

Hello and welcome to day 28 of 100 days of Tonalism.

Painted after - Landscape by Percy Gray, Study by M Francis McCarthy - Size 5x7, Oil on wood panel

Today's study is 'Landscape' by Percy Gray. Percy Gray was a Northern California Tonalist born 1869 and died in 1952. He was famous for painting the Northern California landscape. 

An extra long video today my dear subscribers, so if you'd like to know more about Percy Gray give it a watch and a listen. Here's a link to a good site I found that has some great paintings on it and more extensive biographical information.

Busy day in the studio today. I've been working on some older paintings that needed changes. I had one crash and burn today. Unfortunately I had to destroy it. There is a couple of paintings every year that I have to destroy. I'd rather not discover later that someone had fished a bad painting of mine out of the trash.

My prefered method is to stomp on the offending painting while it's at an angle against concrete. Other artists prefer to burn, scratch up or tear their failed efforts. I feel lucky that that I have so few that are truly bad. I try my best with every attempt at making a piece of art. I also believe it's good to paint over lackluster efforts after they've sat around a while, and their flaws are seen in the harsh light of time passed.

Cheers,

M Francis McCarthy
Landscapepainter.co.nz

A bit about, 'Landscape' by Percy Gray. As you'll see from the video this one took me a while and really challenged me. 

Ultimately I feel I succeeded at making a good study of Percy's painting. The greatest challenge was working in a style and manner that was quite different than my usual. All in all a good experience. Watch the video to see how I did it!

To see more of my work, visit my site here.

Original painting, Landscape by Percy Gray