by Dena Tollefson
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New Painting in process- Marie Antoinette as Corn at her window
I began this oil painting by toning my 40"x30" canvas with a wash of yellow ocher (see drips of underpainting showing). I love to have a washy, drippy underpainting- besides covering the white of the bare canvas, it creates an abstract start to the painting.
I have laid out the landscape through the window and have a good start on the distant clouds and sky. I like that a bit of the underpainting is showing in the clouds- plan to leave that as-is. Have used the same dark color (dioxadine purple mixed with cad orange) to make her hair and the windowframe. Will use this same color to unify her hair with the window as one compositional element.
Next step is to get back to HyVee for another ear of sweet corn- hard to find this time of year! They did have some shipped in earlier - it gets old quickly under the studio spotlight... I will continue painting this picture and show progress in future posts.