The Outside Shore
Demonstration - Around The Bend
Final Studio Touches
When I got home, I downloaded the pictures I had taken of the scene from my
digital camera to my computer and continued working on the painting for a few
more minutes. I do not always look at the original photograph in completing a
painting in the studio - often, I am simply making sure the painting works for
what it has become. In this case, I knew the issue of the perspective of the
foreground hillside might cause me to revisit the decision I had made earlier.
Seeing the photograph convinced me to raise the shore line a little, and bring
the background down a little, and bring the shadows up closer to where they were
in the photo.
 I also used the photograph to resolve some of the background cluster of trees
to center right. The light had changed the appearance of it dramatically over
the course of the painting, but there had not been enough detail in my sketch to
allow me to paint them the way the light was originally. I elected not to simply
copy the photograph, but to combine aspects of it with how the trees had already
developed and how the sketch showed the overall grouping.
The next day I came back to the painting, again armed with the photograph and
my sketch, and made some final adjustments, mostly to these same areas, but also
to warm the overall sense of light.
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