Starting Over Again With Sawtooth

All those paintings of Sawtooth completed over the past several months, and someone wants a different size? 

Yep. No problem. I am an artist, and artists make art. Here are the beginning steps of the commissioned oil painting of Sawtooth:

First I assign an inventory #, title the piece and attach a hanging wire.
Second step is to prime the canvas, or “tone” it as another artist names it. That was even more boring than Step #1, so this photo is showing the paint from the tubes and the colors I mixed to begin the painting.
Painting from back to front means that the blue sky strips go on first.
Then some clouds, and the realization that it would be helpful to crop the photo to a square.
More clouds and the beginning of Sawtooth’s shape.
The angle looked too steep on Sawtooth’s right side slope, so I pulled out my angle finder tool. It was a little tricky to take this photo so I am not holding the thing correctly here (vertical needs to be vertical, not tipsy). I’ll recheck the angle in the next layer.
At the end of the painting session, everything had a first coat of paint.

Wow, it is time-consuming and interruptive to photograph the steps in this much detail. But, this customer has become a friend and likes seeing the progress. I’ve heard from others that seeing the process is interesting, so here we go. . .

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6 Comments

  1. Yes I agree, seeing the progress is very interesting!

    • Virginia, I’ll do my best to report this one as I go.

  2. Sounds like the customer is a pain in the neck!

    • Oh Dan you are so very wrong – the customer is an excellent person and a delight to work with!

  3. I, for one, find the process fascinating! I’m so NOT a painter, I have no idea how beautiful paintings are done, so this is very interesting. I look forward to the next installment!

    • Sharon, I find the process fascinating when I can see actual progress, which for me translates to DETAIL.

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