Blondheim Art Original Painting Evinston Florida

18x24 inches

oil on canvas

silver frame

1500.00

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Artist Journal

This is a completed work in progress I showed you a few days ago. Evinston is one of my favorite places to paint in North Central Florida. It is a very old town with historic architecture and it has Florida's oldest working post office, The Wood Swink Post Office. The PO has lots of cool stuff in it, including a general store, just like in th old days. They sell fresh produce from Freddy Wood's garden behind the PO. It is a meeting place for the community and has one of the old timey drink boxes. I just love painting in that area and the scenery is first class.

Painters Tip

Cloud Painting

If you want to make your clouds the focal point of your composition, remember to give them ample room. Drop the horizon line well below the middle mark of your painting surface and keep the rest of the landscape simple. Like everything else, clouds follow rules of perspective. Those closest to you are likely to be puffier, more detailed and more round in appearance. As they recede into the distance, they tend to look simpler, smaller and flatter.


When painting a cloud focused painting, incorporate a variety of techniques to make your clouds more interesting and dramatic.


Using a wet on wet technique, lay in your sky color. Depending on the lighting, time of day etc, darken one are of the canvas a bit more heavily than the other. Leave some spaces open on your canvas completely free of the blue paint. Using a clean brush, start daubing in the white paint with a soft brush and 'feather' in the clouds to blend into the background.

Make sure you pay attention to the direction of light and that you keep shadows and light consistent.

Let your clouds dominate the canvas if you have impressive clouds to work with. Put in a touch of blues, grays, or even earth colors. This will reflect earth tones from below and make your painting more lifelike and realistic.

I like to incorporate land colors into the sky and sky color into the land so that there is harmony of color in the painting.

Pre-mixing your palette for location work will help you to capture the clouds quickly and efficiently.