Adding color to underpainting...

Day #2...These are short days of painting - more like hours more than "days". Working on adding underpainting colors this session, now that the basic shapes are in. The suggestion of underpainting was one from Mitch Albala's LANDSCAPE PAINTING book - and I like it. If you are painting plein air you need to be pretty fast, but painting this from a photo supplied by the homeowner I can take my time.

Beginning sketch for RI Home...colors are next.

Style development for RI house painting...

It's called "simplification & massing", a style Artist TIM HORN [painting LEFT] works in so well. It's a style I have enjoyed too, & I plan to do more of it as part of the Tomales Fine Art [www.tomalesfineart.com] series of plein air classes hosted by Tim in this rural, CA wine country location. Tim's art takes basic forms & shapes and simplifies them using great colors. The RI house I am doing at the moment will borrow from this "simplification" style - and can be seen in one of Tim's fine paintings that I have attached here. Look for more on Tim's site on-line. "Simplification & Massing" is part of Mitch Albala's great lesson book on plein-air painting I have really enjoyed titled "Landscape Painting" [go to amazon.com]