{"id":672,"date":"2012-03-13T15:05:42","date_gmt":"2012-03-13T23:05:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bjdecastro.com\/art-blog\/?p=672"},"modified":"2012-03-13T15:10:06","modified_gmt":"2012-03-13T23:10:06","slug":"ranchita-arroyo-grande-morning-oak-canopy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bjdecastro.com\/art-blog\/2012\/03\/ranchita-arroyo-grande-morning-oak-canopy\/","title":{"rendered":"Ranchita Arroyo Grande Morning &#8211; Oak &#038; Canopy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bjdecastro.com\/art-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/ranchita-arroyo-grande9.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-673\" title=\"Ranchita Arroyo Grande Morning, painting by Bj. deCastro\" src=\"http:\/\/bjdecastro.com\/art-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/ranchita-arroyo-grande9-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/bjdecastro.com\/art-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/ranchita-arroyo-grande9-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/bjdecastro.com\/art-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/ranchita-arroyo-grande9.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>I worked the details on the oak tree trunk using the darkest values.\u00c2\u00a0 I mixed burnt umber and burnt sienna for the darkest darks.\u00c2\u00a0 Then I added a touch of titanium white to accentuate the bark high spots.\u00c2\u00a0 After this dries, I will come in and accent the finest details with the lightest value, or highlights.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bjdecastro.com\/art-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/ranchita-arroyo-grande10.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-674 alignright\" title=\"Ranchita Arroyo Grande Morning - Canopy and trunk\" src=\"http:\/\/bjdecastro.com\/art-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/ranchita-arroyo-grande10-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/bjdecastro.com\/art-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/ranchita-arroyo-grande10-225x300.jpg 225w, http:\/\/bjdecastro.com\/art-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/ranchita-arroyo-grande10.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a>Now I raise my canvas on my Best easel for the standing work.\u00c2\u00a0 The canopy will require that I move in and out on my feet to keep check on the values and shapes.<\/p>\n<p>I use a fairly large #6 bristle fan brush.\u00c2\u00a0 I load tons of\u00c2\u00a0sap green on one end and ivory black on the other.\u00c2\u00a0 This allows me to flip the brush from one end to the other quickly while I am shaping the canopy.<\/p>\n<p>While my thick paint is still wet, I come back in with sap green and titanium white in varying mixes to adjust medium values and touch up any\u00c2\u00a0&#8216;see-through-the-tree-to-the-sky&#8217; areas that got lost in my exuberant earlier brush work.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, I mix dioxazine purple, ivory black, sap green and titanium white to lay in the\u00c2\u00a0dark, medium\u00c2\u00a0and\u00c2\u00a0light values of the dying branch on the backside of the tree.\u00c2\u00a0 This was actually a whole tree between the foreground and background tree, which I removed from my painting.\u00c2\u00a0 However, my favorite color\u00c2\u00a0in this painting\u00c2\u00a0was the lavendar of the sunlit dead branches, so I took some artist&#8217;s perogative and made it a dying branch of my main oak.\u00c2\u00a0 Not yet drafted on the canvas&#8230;will be some beautiful lavendar flowers in foreground corners in front of the upfront fencing to tie it all in.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I worked the details on the oak tree trunk using the darkest values.\u00c2\u00a0 I mixed burnt umber and burnt sienna for the darkest darks.\u00c2\u00a0 Then I added a touch of titanium white to accentuate the bark high spots.\u00c2\u00a0 After this dries, I will come in and accent the finest details with the lightest value, or &hellip; 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