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Painting #8 — Under the Sky and Water (More Koi)!

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This is what I did yesterday — Mother’s Day.  I’m very proud that I managed to do this AND have a celebratory brunch with Pat, Will, Mariam and grand babes Will and Maya.  AND have a crab imperial supper courtesy of Pat.  AND a nap!  Woohoo!  Hope you can tell that that light blue is pond water reflecting the pale blue sky, accented with the dark shadows of nearby leaves, which allowed us to glimpse the true colors under the murk. . . .  Hmmm, looking at it again this morning, I probably should have darkened hat blue a bit more.  Oh well.

Koi #3. Oil on Primed Arches Oil Paper. 8″x10″

Reference for Koi #3.

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Painting #7 – More Koi. A Better Green on the Palette

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I’m behind on posting (but not painting!) — here’s the one I did on Saturday.  Another koi — I think of this one as ‘the beauties and the beast!, because that fish looks like a torpedo or something lethal.

As for mixing the greens, I decided to slightly increase the odds of good leaf color by adding chromium oxide green to my palette for this one.

#7 – Koi #2 Oil on Primed Arches Oil Paper. 10″x8″

Koi with Water Lilies

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Painting #6 – Get Me Outta Shepherdstown (For Now)! Sick of Mixing Greens! Give Me Koi!!

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My plan to overdose on Shepherdstown scenes must pause.  I’m tired of the greens there — and the extreme difficulty of mixing them from my limited palette.  I need to do some off-painting experimentation to see if I can develop some better mixes.

In the meantime, here are some koi, which I’ve been wanting to try for years. I like it, though the composition is too lopsided to the left, isn’t it?  I didn’t want to include the reference’s departing duck sailing at lower right.  Should I add a baby koi down there?  Or would that be too ‘coy’?  Should I preserve the area as the tranquil spot where the eyes can rest??  And dang – more green issues!  A problem for the future.

#6 Koi Without Duck. Oil on Paper. 10″x8″.

Koi with Duck.