This is a demonstration of palette knife painting. The first step was a block-in with Dioxine purple capturing simple values.
Next, I started with the background and applied the paint with a combination of brush and knife , blending to make it soft edged. Notice the whites in the lights. Normally I don't put whites in this early, but I wanted to do the background first because of all the trees and leaves in the foreground. Also, it felt good.
Then I painted the darks of the tree trunks in the foreground and some golden colors to get the feel of the trees.
Added more darks of the foreground. I wasn't happy with the background yellows so added more orange and I used my fingers to blend the back ground. Notice the strokes in the road were smoothed out. I could have gone either way with this, but chose to smooth out the brushstroke for variety.
This is as far as I got in class. I hope to finish it on Tuesday by detailing a few areas. See you then.
