It's done!

Finally, after much thought, imagining, research, preparation, sweat, overdue books and several consecutive late nights, the painting is complete! (And even in time for the Variety Show!) It's a sweet victory.

So, I had been thinking that it would be fun to put up a progression slide show or something cool like that, depicting the evolution of this painting that has occupied so much of my time and thoughts for the few months. However, I simply cannot find a picture of how it looked originally, as the "Lonely Barn". (silly, spacey me, forgot to take an original before picture. D'oh!) I think it would be anticlimactic and painfully incomplete to post such a progression without the original sad, faded photo for contrast. Consequently, I've decided to stick with the system I've got going and continue with just posting the most recent updates.

Ok, picking up where we left off, here it is at the phase where the clouds have just been completed. I'm actually quite pleased with how they turned out; big, fluffy, shapely things that they are. Hooray! There are lots of different colors mixed into them to try to portray the proper shading. However, overall, I think your brain still says, "Look! Happy white clouds." And that is the desired effect :)

Next, I put in the boat. Silly silly boat.

It took a couple sessions of tweaking before I was satisfied, but in the end it was pretty alright. I do wish that I would have painted the thing smaller. However, at this point, in order to achieve that, I would have to repaint both the sky and the water. This I am extremely disinclined to do. Not simply because of time constraints for the V-Show (possibly its only chance for display) but also, I am exceptionally pleased with both elements and have zero desire to to chance ruining them in an attempt to match colors or redo the whole thing. (Ugh.) So, the boat will forever remain just a little too large.


And it's done!

Now that the painting was finished, signed and drying, all that remained to be done was the frame.

Previously the frame was a dirty, dusty, ugly brown. Bleh. That must go.

Here is has been repainted a nice creamy color:

And now the final touch - a little bit of antiquing:

Now, for unveiling of the Final Project!

Drum roll..................

Ta da!
I call it "Escape".