Last month our family did a camping vacation in northern Michigan. We camped for the first time just south of Charlevoix, MI, at Fisherman's Island State Park (on Bell's Bay). This state park was far more rustic than the average Michigan State Park, it felt more like a State Forest Campground. We got a camping site very near the water and I was able to do several plein air studies while there. "Birches-Study" was one of several on site paintings. When I returned back to the studio, I painted "Birches on Bell's Bay", 24x30, in pastel and will feature that painting at the upcoming Charlevoix Waterfront Art Fair next Saturday, Aug. 11. While visiting the art fair, stop in to North Seas Gallery!
Below, I am showing the study and a few progression images of the large painting.
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1st step of blocking in the large shapes of value and color, after working out the composition.
I used mostly the harder sticks of Nu-pastel. |
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| The next step of using a wash of alcohol to dissolve the pastel into the paper to make an underpainting. |
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The near finished pastel painting.
Birches on Bell's Bay, pastel, 24x30, $2300. framed |
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Birches-Study, oil on panel, 10x8, $500.
The plein air study painted at Fisherman's Island State Park.
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