Sailor’s Delight

24×36 Oil on stretched canvas

In a workshop from Keith Martin Johns, I learned to paint using a 9-step value-scale from white to black for our method of changing the value of our colors. Keith had provided us with photo references, and the assignment was to take two photos with two very different kinds of lighting, one predominantly sky, and the other a landscape, and compose a 24 x 36 painting from the two photos. I felt uncomfortable with the unfamiliar methodology, so it really forced me to stretch and grow, trying something new, with a sky I never would have attempted except for having attended this workshop!

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