Monday, December 7, 2009

The Flaherty House

It was a bright cool morning in October 2009 as Jamie McGill and I came upon this wonderful old house adjacent to the Black River.   A lady walking with her Granddaughter along the road, stopped and chatted and was kind enough to give us a brief history of this old home and the name of the family that lived there. 
First stage of Oil painting, "The Flaherty House"
A quick transparent underpainting of warm colours, yellow ochre, alizarin crimson and cobalt blue.

Using similar colours, I drew in the basic shapes of the old building and some entourage.

At this stage of the painting I am adjusting the drawing and looking for the large shapes and establishing the shadows before they change.

This is a closer look at this stage of the painting.

This the final plein-air painting and I am probably not going to "pimp it up" in the studio.

I hope that you enjoyed this visit to the "Flaherty House"
Posted by John Stuart Pryce at 9:47 AM

2 comments:

  1. Hi John,
    I came across your blog because I am looking for a juror for a show in the spring, but it looks like you will be in Italy! This post is an excellent way to demonstrate how you work "en plein air"
    If you recall I took a workshop with you several years ago which gave me the push I needed to take a path that I was never quite "ready" for.
    Thank you

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