Taking registration for my Fall Sierra Workshop for September 13th -16th, 2013. 4 Day Workshop, plenty of demos and one on one instruction. All levels welcome. We will be painting around Bishop, including the Beautiful Buttermilks and Owens River. Lodging is abundant and reasonable. Cost per student (not including lodging) $500. For more detailed info email me at: frankserrano@sbcglobal.net

"The Rockies in Snow"   oil   10"x10"

Available Price on request.

"Rocky Mountain Stream"  Oil  12"x12"

SOLD

The Finished Painting

"Above Big Sur"  oil on linen  16"x20"

Available,  price on request.

"Above Big Sur" 

A step by step from study to studio painting

 

Step5

 

Finally close to being finished!  Now it's detail time, last

minute adjustments to color and some design elements.

In this step I'm adding details in the grasses and distant 

cliffs.  Also,  adding another rock near the cliff

and changing the foam direction near the bottom of the

painting.  I'm adding just enough detail  for realism,  

letting the viewer add the rest!  

Tomorrow a final look at the finished painting!

"Above Big Sur" 

A step by step from study to studio painting

 

Step 4

 

From step 3 to 4 I start building up details in the foreground 

little by little.  Again, the backgroud is still virtually untouched 

and the middle ground is slightly detailed.  Besides actual

details added by the brush,  color plays a huge part in creating

depth,  or what I like to say atmospheric perspective.  Remember

Not all distant values become bluer in the distance that's why 

it's so important to paint on location.  Accuracy of color and 

value comes with experience painting outdoors from life!