The Thursday Plein Air Painters met at the recently opened Santa Fe Botanical Garden for a morning of location painting. I'm getting used to the idea that I don't need to leave the painting location with a finished painting. That's probably a bad attitude, traditionally speaking, but I’m breaking lots of other rules too, so there.
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| A section of Phase One of the brand new Santa Fe Botanical Garden. Painters are setting up under a portal. |
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| Color sketch of garden rock sculptures, painted on location with acrylic on watercolor pad. |
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| Later, in the studio, I added a little more detail. |
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| After reworking more, I took an iPhone photo of the painting, imported it into the computer, repainted the imported version using Corel Painter software, then enlarged the digital painting to 30 x 40 inches (below). |
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| The final digital version. |
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| Detail. |
