The Lookout

The Lookout 20 inches wide x 16 inches tall

This painting comes out of much study and personal development.

Unlike other paintings, the concept was to paint towards my vision. When I had met my visions goal, the painting is assumed finished. What a way to start and finish a painting.

First of all I took more than 1000 pictures with a model on a two-day shot. Then carefully selecting and manipulating the image in PhotoShop for design, color and tones to bring me closer to the initial vision I had for this painting.

Working from a more or less monochromatic study that I was very careful in how I developed my tones and my intention was to keep them to only a few varied values. Unifying areas that I would have earlier allowed to scream out in all kinds of value directions. Trying to keep my color to fit the plane it occupies, relating it to the values study, while carefully manipulating warm and cool colors of even the same tone to emphasize form.

I have to say that this painting does not resemble the photo, but the special vision and tension I had hoped to create.

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