Thursday, February 3, 2022

Walk On The Pier - Figures on Friday!

Walk On The Pier, 8 x 6, oil on panel, L. Daniel © 2022
NFS

Here is another "family" memory for Figures on Friday this week. This is my dear father-in-law with one of his great grandsons (my grand nephew). One fun thing about painting people you know is that it feels like you are actually having a little visit with them! Love that!

I'm also including my block-in for this piece to contrast with last week's block-in. You can see that I started with my usual approach, the dark underpainting. But this time, instead of working dark to light, I painted the light areas around my dark sketch. This allowed me to lock in the shapes of the figures which is really helpful. After that, I toggled back and forth between the figures and everything else. I also adjusted the drawing a bit, as the figures were leaning to the left at first. Can't have that! ;)

Painted around Block-in... 
Final painting.

4 comments:

Penny from Enjoying The Simple Things said...

This is so charming. How fun that you knew your people! Is that the pier on St. Simons?

Sharon L. Graves said...

Love Figure Friday. So sweet that you have these fabulous paintings.

Laurel Daniel said...

Thank you, Penny! And YES, that is St. Simons Pier! XOXO

Laurel Daniel said...

Thank you, Sharon!!! So glad to hear you enjoy Figures on Friday! They are such fun to paint and great practice for me!!