My First Concept Board

Here it is in all of it's glory.

Bottom center is a little brush up to decide color - so glad I did that!  I erased a lot, including a lot of red, giving the little painting a pink hue in the middle.  I'm planning on the original being lots of browns and dusty teals with the tiniest hints of red in the trim on the little house.

The board has lots of different views of the house, some clippings from some of the plants in the picture and the color study.  The next move will be to sketch it all out onto water color paper, which I'll probably have done over a few days - then painting!  I'm looking forward to this piece being very detailed and having some pop to it... we'll see what happens, but I've already learned a bit just in my color study and learning is the goal so I'm headed in the right direction!

Here's my set up:

Desert Dream House, Concept Boards and Quail

I am seriously so excited to be painting this tiny little house.  It's all of about 300 square feet of desert beauty.  It was raining, the sage smelled amazing, the joshua trees were in bloom, and there was a large flock of quail complete with a gaggle of little, tiny baby quail milling around in the bushes.  So. Excited.  

I'm also really looking forward to painting from a concept board - something I learned about in interior design courses, but only as they apply to presenting design ideas to clients.  Complete with color schemes and lots of photos of this little desert dream and all it's attributes as well as pictures of the clouds I want to add and some inspiration for design elements I want to try like visual texture and a preliminary sketch.  I have a feeling the board will be both a HUGE help AND a ton of fun to make.  I show you a picture, for sure :)  For now though I'm waiting for Jeremy to bring home my printed photos since we don't have a printer.  

Tomorrow: concept board making!  So excited!  Now to day dream color schemes, and other design elements...

A Matthew 13 Series

I'm pretty decided that I'm going to do a series of paintings based on the parables in the book of Matthew chapter 13.

I'm quite excited about them.  I'm planning on sepia tones with an over shot of one color - each painting in the series being a different color.  The first, the parable of the sower is to be overshot with blues.  I'm sketching it out today - so excited!  I'm also planning on taking my time with this one, as sometimes I'm just so eager to be done that I sail through and it always looks like the time I put into it, not much!

Well, I'm off!