Rising Above

Here steps I take on building my paintings up. I tend to start with strong warm colors, sometimes laying it down thick with a knife or just painting it quickly with a brush. Then as I lay the cooler colors (always with a knife), or local colors, the first notes often blend or just show through here and there depending how I feel about that particular passage. This method I try to do wet on wet, although larger paintings require many days to complete, and often I would need to take a passage at the time like a Fresco's "giornata", sky, foreground, trees really no particular order. In the first image are alrready started to lay in the blue sky.