Landscapes and Seascapes

Most of my landscape and seascapes paintings are from fotos. A usual source is the online Wet Canvas!

[Of course, there are a lot of landscape ptgs on my PA section]
BTW, the objective of the short sketches on this thread is to hone my skills to paint rapidly and relatively accurately (about an hour but certainly less than 1 hr)
The purpose? Plain aire, where the scene evolves!

But first a pencil sketch

The painting below is from a very interesting website

http://virtualpaintout.blogspot.com

Each month, the host, Bill Guffey, selects a location

somewhere in the world using Google Map

The object for the artist is to find a location on that map,

use Google Street View to find a desirable

painting scene, download the scene, draw or paint it,

and post the effort on the blog

The scene below is from the town of

Kooge, Zealand Island, Denmark

9 x 12 on canvas panel - Sep 2012

Below is another, this one from Split, Croatia

October 2012 ptg, 9 x 12 on canvas paper

Not a good foto of it, because paper curled

As I've mentioned, WetCanvas! has a forum called Weekend Drawing Event or WDE. 16 photos are presented and forum followers select one or many to draw or paint over a 5 or 7 day period (until the next week!). The painting below is from the 28 Sep 2012 WDE - 9 x 12 on canvas paper, < 1 hr painting time

The painting below is from WC All Media Events

15 Sep 2012 - Peggy's Cove, Nova Scotia

Impressionistic 9 x 12 on canvas panel, 1 h

Painted with a 9 mm hog bristle brush

except for the lighthouse

The painting below is from WC All Media Events

9 Sep 2012 - A Shop in Belize

Impressionistic 8 x 10 on canvas panel, 2 h

First time I can remember waiting for

acrylic to dry - 100% humidity, 80F

The next two paintings are from
WC All Media Events of 24 Aug 2012
They are both 9 x 12 on canvas paper
The first took ~30 min
The second ~1 h
These were painted mostly with a 1/2-inch
very coarse hog bristle brush

The painting below is of Rose Island lighthouse
It was the WC Aug 2012 challenge ITSO Hopper
12 x 16 on canvas panel, ~3.5 h

The one below is from WDE 27 Oct 2012

9 x 12 on canvas paper, ~1 h or less

A bridge in Crete

This one from WC 5 Aug 2012
All Media Weekend Event
9 x 12 canvas paper, ~45 min

The one below is from 10 Aug 2012 WC

All Media Weekend Event

9 x 12 canvas paper, <45 min

I've added some additional paintings below
Most of these are from WC challenges
All Media Weekend Events
Usually 9 x 12 on canvas paper

In the style of (ITSO) Grant Wood

ITSO Cezanne

What follows are more paintings from Wet Canvas! challenges. All Media Weekend Event
All 9 x 12 on canvas paper

The painting above was from a Weekend Drawing Event

of several years ago - Venice Canal

The painting below was from WC Acrylic

Challenge for Oct 2012

It's 12 x 20 on canvas panel

Works well in the $50 frame I bought for the

other 12 x 20 paintings here

The one below is 12 x 16 on canvas panel

  [The one below is a paint-over of the one above]

Back to the WC All Media Weekend Event Paintings

[The painting below is the smallest I've ever done - 1.5 x 2 inches] 

This is from my foto taken in Bangkok on the Water Market 16 x 20

The May 2012 Acrylic Challenge on WC was a foto from Africa of an Acacia Tree. In about an hour I turned it into an ITSO early Mondrian. 9 x 12 on canvas paper

Below really doesn't qualify as a landscape

I found this chunk of photo on the street

and decided to paint it against the bricks of the street

12 x 16 on canvas panel

Below is a color ptg of a b+W pic from 19th Century Medina Ohio 12 x 16

Below is a WC landscape challenge in 2012 - 12 x 20

This looks great in weathered frame

Below is another 12 x 20 panorama ptg

I don't like this one as much as the rowboat above

Nevertheless it too looks good in a weatherbeaten frame

Below is another - a 1 h sketch about 8 x 10 or so

Below is a ptg of my son-in-law's foto from the FL Panhandle. I call it Cypress Creek - 24 x 30

The ptg below is the Oct 2012 WC Acrylic Challenge

Venice Canal - in a pseudo-impressionistic style, sorta

And yes, it is distorted - 12 x 20 on canvas panel

[An update - the rules on the challenge is that

no one can post their work until the 20th of the month

WC crashed at precisely the instant I was

downloading this ptg. For six days, I was unable

to sign back in. The powers that be kept insisting that I was trying to hack into my own IP address

They insisted that I create new password, which I did - 11 times!

So I created a "new me."

My old handle was OLD_HOBBYIST

I joined WC more than 7 yr ago

My new handle is NO-ONE-HOME

and I'm a BRAND NEW MEMBER!]

I've been doing WC challenges in various artist styles

Below is ITSO Bierstadt

Below is an ITSO Cezanne

The next two are ITSO Mondrian

Mondrian's painting style changed dramatically in 1908

The first was early in the year

The second was later that year (12 x 16)

Below is ITSO Feininger - 8 x 10

I'll bet you couldn't guess this is an ITSO Monet!

12 x 16 canvas panel

Below is an odd painting

It is a distortion of a farm scene

The blob is the side of the barn

Playing with abstract concepts, I guess

Below is another odd one

This was a photo from Wet Canvas

It is supposed to be some creature in the sea

I saw it as another abstract, sorta like roads connecting cities 

A straight-up ptg from a photo  9 x 12 canvas paper

Below is of Weaver Park, with a stylized cloud structure

Based on a PA painting

From a Wet Canvas Challenge - Turned out pretty good

I'll put it also in my really good paintings thread as well

Below - Destin, Florida - Sun and picket fence

The wood grain took forever

Below are two scenes of the Calidesi Bridge

Working on Turner Skies

Another challenge from Wet Canvas - three primary colors

ITSO Edward Hopper?

Again, these are from Wet Canvas Challenges

Below other WC Weekend Drawing Event efforts 

So, why are there two of those below?

Because I wanted to do two of the same view? Right!

The one below is from a foto taken by my son-in-law

I think this was done in heat-set oils circa 2002