tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28752742459868025182024-03-18T21:53:51.571-07:00Ellen Leong BlonderWork in Progress, Food NotesEllen Blonderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14001604806666051492noreply@blogger.comBlogger526125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2875274245986802518.post-75748807434427330242017-04-11T12:13:00.000-07:002017-04-16T12:15:17.293-07:00Ivory Rooster - Final<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I finally finished adding blades of grass underfoot. Also, I repositioned the uppermost chick because I didn't like the head-on symmetry of it. I hope you can appreciate what a magnificent guy this rooster is, and sense the mutual protectiveness between him and the hen. Time to give the size 0 brush a rest.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">One of these days, I may learn to paint details under overlapping foliage first, but I'm usually too impatient to see larger color masses first. I've added details to the purple leaves behind the hen, and still have to add elements to the foreground.</span></div>
<br />Ellen Blonderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14001604806666051492noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2875274245986802518.post-79583720264560497932017-03-25T12:00:00.000-07:002017-04-16T12:01:51.848-07:00Ivory Rooster 5<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I packed the unfinished painting back to the mainland, saying good-bye to the rooster and hen that I saw nearly every day. I doubt they will still be there next year. All the chicks have grown remarkably during my two months in Kauai. Catch as catch can, I've done most of the rooster and begun on the surrounding foliage.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Now that the hen is mostly done, I've added details to the chicks and started on the rooster. I'm liking how his tail feathers help frame the hen's head. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Since the hen is a big brown mass, I thought I'd better paint her in first. She looks a bit drab compared with the rooster, but her feathers are quietly beautiful.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I'm resisting the urge to add flowers, so that the red in the rooster's and hen's faces will be the brightest spots. Today, I added some thin acrylic washes to help me see the color masses.</span></div>
Ellen Blonderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14001604806666051492noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2875274245986802518.post-60135259553833368082017-02-19T11:36:00.000-08:002017-04-16T11:38:09.934-07:00Ivory Rooster 1<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">A handsome couple on the bike path in Kauai has caught my eye. The rooster is all ivory and black, with no copper feathers. He's always accompanied by his hen. I'm going to take license to add some chicks, because this year, I have never seen so many of them along my walks.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I've started a sketch on a 16 x 20-inch canvas board.</span></div>
Ellen Blonderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14001604806666051492noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2875274245986802518.post-77453796198655847082016-10-19T06:57:00.001-07:002017-04-16T11:39:12.556-07:00Windblown Rooster - Final<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I've added details to the plants and thrown some leaves to the wind. Finished.</span></div>
Ellen Blonderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14001604806666051492noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2875274245986802518.post-4937569686983068202016-10-07T15:36:00.000-07:002016-10-19T06:53:40.972-07:00Windblown Rooster 4<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The chest and wing feathers are filled in now. Time to get back to the plants.</span></div>
Ellen Blonderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14001604806666051492noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2875274245986802518.post-81793941127411375232016-10-04T17:40:00.000-07:002016-10-19T06:49:39.939-07:00Windblown Rooster 3<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Over the last week, I've been adding color to the plants, then filling in the rooster's tail.</span></div>
Ellen Blonderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14001604806666051492noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2875274245986802518.post-59737473659682836572016-09-26T16:18:00.000-07:002016-10-19T06:42:49.551-07:00Windblown Rooster 2<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I wanted to build up from the background first, but I always seem to want to paint the rooster's face early on. </span></div>
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Ellen Blonderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14001604806666051492noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2875274245986802518.post-71331742883641067152016-09-22T16:15:00.000-07:002016-10-19T06:37:18.165-07:00Windblown Rooster 1<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">While I was waiting in a parking lot in Lihue, this rooster wandered by my car window. The wind picked up and fluffed out his neck feathers. I've been wanting to paint him ever since. Here's the sketch on a 16 x 20 canvas board.</span></div>
Ellen Blonderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14001604806666051492noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2875274245986802518.post-60154107956632339262016-07-04T12:18:00.000-07:002016-07-04T12:18:34.612-07:00Cycad Painting - Final<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I think this is done. I added some red leaves behind the bromeliad, darkened, then lightened the sky a bit, spending hours touching it up behind the cycad and refining the cycad leaves afterward. I've also darkened the underside and beard of the goat, added contrast in the horns and fixed its face so those weird far-apart eyes read better. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">In retrospect, this was a crazy way to paint, without even a foggy idea of where I was headed, finishing out the key elements and then having to paint around them. What's funny is that in the end, it doesn't look so different from my other paintings that are more planned ahead. I don't know how others manage to have a layout all planned out ahead. I needed time out to let this sit between painting sessions so I could figure out what else it required.</span></div>
Ellen Blonderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14001604806666051492noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2875274245986802518.post-91797554009837106052016-06-20T12:02:00.000-07:002016-07-04T12:05:08.388-07:00Cycad Painting 8<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">This is both the fun and tedious part, adding details with the finest brushes. There are now additional goats in the background, and patterns on the bromeliad leaves. I've also added strappy leaves behind and under the bromeliad and blades of grass in the foreground. The goat still feels a bit pasted in, though. While he looked very dark against the beige background when I first painted him, he now looks too flatly white against the dark path.</span></div>
Ellen Blonderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14001604806666051492noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2875274245986802518.post-48406672509935313752016-05-20T11:54:00.000-07:002016-07-04T11:56:17.116-07:00Cycad Painting 7<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">And here it is with the colorful flower bracts. It needed something on the right for balance, so I've added some fan palm leaves.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I've got to add some color. I can't let this just be a goat by himself in green grass. There's a bromeliad I've been wanting to paint, and I now have it sketched into the lower left corner. I'll decide what else to add after I work on that.</span></div>
Ellen Blonderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14001604806666051492noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2875274245986802518.post-65780111212924362942016-05-09T11:39:00.000-07:002016-07-04T11:41:35.088-07:00Cycad Painting 5<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">This is a backward way to paint, using a size 0 brush to add background behind the finished cycad fronds and around the goat's fur. It feels like it's going to take forever, but at least I can feel space in the picture now. </span></div>
Ellen Blonderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14001604806666051492noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2875274245986802518.post-5294649791912836592016-04-30T11:33:00.000-07:002016-07-04T11:34:59.167-07:00Cycad Painting 4<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I should know my own tendencies better than I do. As soon as I washed in some background, the painting feels anchored. I'm still not sure where this is headed, but giving the elements some solid ground suddenly makes this feel better.</span></div>
Ellen Blonderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14001604806666051492noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2875274245986802518.post-74395319585869546502016-04-27T10:59:00.000-07:002016-07-04T11:29:49.764-07:00Cycad Painting 3<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I've been letting this marinate, not sure how to proceed, but the cycad looked lost alone on the canvas. I decided to add a goat, based on my photo of this character I saw near Kilauea, Kauai. He was not wild, but in a grassy area behind a fence. Did he know how magnificent he looked, so different from the other goats in the same pasture? The way he posed, I suspect he did.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Of course, I still don't know where this painting is headed. Do I add an egret above? Add some torn sketchbook pages to make a collage?</span></div>
<br />Ellen Blonderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14001604806666051492noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2875274245986802518.post-85168661818915689352016-04-20T11:13:00.000-07:002016-07-04T11:14:25.403-07:00Cycad Painting 2<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Cycads intrigue me, with their primitiveness, as if a dinosaur could appear behind it at any moment. My reference for this was a handsome specimen from the Mcbride Garden in Kauai.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I didn't photograph this in progress, but here's the pretty finished painting of it against the prepared background. I have an idea to surround it with other bits of Hawaiian flora and fauna, so it looks like a big page torn out of a sketchbook, without more of a background than this.</span>Ellen Blonderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14001604806666051492noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2875274245986802518.post-66888847352122945542016-04-05T10:59:00.002-07:002016-07-04T11:20:50.449-07:00Cycad Painting - Beginning<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I inherited this 40 x 50-inch canvas from my mother-in-law, and while the painting was in bad shape, it was on heavy linen, mounted on a sturdy frame, something worth saving. When the paint began peeling off, I thought I'd try stripping it.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The rest of the paint was stuck fast, so I could only cover it with gesso. I thought I could make the underlying texture work for me, although I had no idea what I was going to paint.</span>Ellen Blonderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14001604806666051492noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2875274245986802518.post-71212980934131527302016-04-05T10:59:00.000-07:002016-07-04T11:02:49.998-07:00Cycad Painting - Beginning<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I inherited this 40 x 50-inch canvas from my mother-in-law, and while the painting was in bad shape, it was on heavy linen, mounted on a sturdy frame. When the paint began peeling off, I thought I'd try stripping it.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Much of the paint peeled off in strips, but the rest had to be scraped with a palette knife.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The rest of the paint was stuck fast, so I could only cover it with gesso. I thought I could make the underlying texture work for me, although I had no idea what I was going to paint.</span>Ellen Blonderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14001604806666051492noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2875274245986802518.post-47903372053710086142016-04-02T16:29:00.002-07:002016-04-02T16:29:45.608-07:00Dark Rooster - Final<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I've added grass details to the middle ground and details to the background. I knew this painting would take a while, and I'm happy to finally be done. </span></div>
Ellen Blonderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14001604806666051492noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2875274245986802518.post-80422044449492236462016-03-31T16:25:00.000-07:002016-04-02T16:26:14.949-07:00Dark Rooster - 9<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I like the ferns, but now I realize the sky is too dull and I don't like the background tree trunks. It's time to paint them out. </span></div>
Ellen Blonderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14001604806666051492noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2875274245986802518.post-174522633573556272016-03-30T16:21:00.000-07:002016-04-02T16:22:21.581-07:00Dark Rooster - 8<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The Hawaiian morning glory on in the left foreground wasn't working, so I'm going to try ferns instead. </span></div>
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