Fall landscape, dazzling colors

Fall landscape is especially attractive painting subject when days shrink and it gets pitch dark already around 5 pm. The added bonus is bright color palette and the options of mixing colors are endless.

I’ve been painting away, but since the daylight is sparse and ends soon, the hours I can work on a painting are short, too. If you have ever done acrylic or oil painting, you probably know how wet paint is reflected in artificial light. To the extent that it becomes impossible to paint.

If you favor walks in the nature and you are just like I am – always enjoying the play of colors in the sunlight or cloud shapes when it’s rainy and overcast, – you will probably like this painting with its vivid colors and the nature-related subject. The fall landscape is something I paint always around this time, but I am going to focus more on fragments of landscape in the future, unless it is a huge canvas.

It took very many layers of paint and going over and over some areas because it’s no secret acrylic paint is more and more lacking quality and saturation with pigment.

Fall landscape is a great subject for reflecting our love to color. To facilitate brightness and strong tones, I let the painting dry every night and return to it when the daylight is acceptable. Therefore, the process extends over a few weeks, but I am fine with it now. It already received lots of great feedback. The size is again 24 x 18 in or 61 x 46 cm. I started this painted for the class, but certainly, getting it done took many more hours.

My paintings are very color-sensitive. While the picture will show only what camera with automated settings can capture, the actual painting always has more of everything, but definitely great balance between dark and light, as well as cold and warm. These particular pictures are more on the warmer side. Just like always, I took many of them and chose to publish the ones which are the closest to the original.

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18 Replies to “Fall landscape, dazzling colors”

  1. What a gorgeous painting Inese! The colors were well worth the effort you made. I understand the frustration of how wet paint is reflected in artificial light. This is a beautiful piece and I’ll bet someone snatches it up quickly. Well done!

    1. Thanks very much for your comment!
      I usually do not paint using artificial light, not watercolor which is even more sensitive, not acrylic because it is for sure difficult and it’s hard to paint when one cannot clearly see what they paint.
      It takes me longer, but using only real daylight is much more beneficial for painting. I know that next day when I check out the painting, my colors will be correct. There have been moments when time was of essence, like before a show or some important event, and I added paint when there was no daylight. It wasn’t any good anyway, and I always corrected that later.
      This particular painting received great feedback already. Blog is the most current place where I posted. Well, if I sold it at material price only, it probably would be gone immediately. I usually don’t do that, but we will see.
      All the best to you!

    1. Thank you very much Tania Marie!
      I have been so busy and lazy, LOL, that I haven’t visited many of of friends’ blogs. I will stop by your blog right now.
      This painting worked out itself. I just added new layers here and there, let them dry and so forth. It took long time, but I am happy with it.
      This post was delayed because I wanted to post large drawings which I did for still life classes. I couldn’t get any normal pictures, though, so there was a gap in posts.
      Stay well and blessings to you!

    2. You’re welcome! I understand…days have been full. It’s not often I get to browse things, but I do enjoy your shares.
      I love how creative processes come together when we just go with the flow of energy in the moment. Thank you for sharing your creative heart and art – always much needed to see more in the world! Love and blessings

    3. That is fantastic you find my art shares appealing and worth checking out.
      I agree the energy must be let flow free and then everything happens.
      Art doesn’t like torture. It’s best not to try too hard.
      The same about your blog: very unique, very interesting, very new to me quite often.
      Thanks and have a good evening!

    1. Thank you very much Ryan!
      I like roads and, especially, the ones which are going through the forest.
      I could say it’s a Canadian landscape, however, in my thoughts, I’m always painting Latvia where I came from almost 2 decades ago.
      Nice comments certainly lift one’s mood. I’m happy to hear that my painting resonates with you. I will stop by at your blog at some moment, too, just totally exhausted right now.
      Have a good weekend!

    1. Thanks very much Shawn!
      I agree, colors are very rich and that’s thanks to many layers.
      Acrylic is fine, but it takes a lot of paint and work.
      have a good week!

  2. It’s a gorgeous artwork, Inese, with the rich tones and harmonies you spoke of. As you implied, the ambient light is so important, and the camera can’t capture the reality the eyes perceive. Here, on the other side of the world, with Australia’s own flora and environment, every season is different to yours. Congratulations and best wishes, Steve.

    1. Thank you very much Steve!
      I suppose I didn’t even know you were from Australia. I would imagine everything is very different, and that includes opposite seasons.
      I really allowed the colors to come to expression here. I have had very distinctive painting periods. I sometimes used very grey colors, sometimes pale and pastel tones, and right now I feel like using very strong colors.
      Camera is camera that’s for sure, the automated settings certainly create lots of distortion. It’s also the global nature of picture taken by iPhone (I currently have only that). I can have the entire picture either warm or very blue, and that’s never the same with painting.
      I appreciate your comment and I wish you all the best in Australia which is so far from Canada! It must be nice, though, too, I suppose it’s always warm and hot there.

    2. Thanks Inese, and best wishes. It’s about what you’re accustomed to I guess, everything’s different including the quality of the light. I’ve only visited Canada once, but I lived in Brazil for quite a few years. The first time I came back to “cold” Australia, I spoke English with a Portuguese accent. 😸

    3. Isn’t that funny?
      I don’t have such experiences, I’ve spent up tp 50 years in Europe and now, quite a while in Canada, in the middle, the part that borders USA, only lake Ontario between us. Unbelievably, quite a few Latvians live in Australia, too, I know, they have some groups there, in Adelaide, I believe, maybe somewhere else. Australia is huge, Canada is, too. I haven’t seen all of Canada. You might not have seen all of Australia.
      It’s to connect over such vast distances!
      All the best to you Steve!

    1. Thanks very much!
      I’ve been painting for a very long time, many decades actually.
      Acrylic is a great medium and layering colors allows achieving great effects.
      All the best!

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