This is the second painting done using a method demonstrated by Rick Berg last at my CCPS meeting. The steps differ from the usual way I paint in oils in several respects. For those that are interested in those steps, here they are in short:
This is a photo of Rock Isle Lake on Sunshine Meadows. It’s gorgeous! This was an early June day and we had 3 seasons in 5 hours – fall, winter, and spring. I have another photo from a slightly lower and wider angle that I photoshopped [adjust, threshold] to convert to simple black and white shapes. I had a board previously painted red and I sketched these large shapes onto it, first with pencil and then outlined with a black Sharpie.
I then painted these shapes with black acrylic gesso. Once that was dry I glazed the entire surface with acrylic Transparent Red Iron Oxide [Golden’s]. 
Then I got out my oil paints and worked in the lighter colors for sky, water, and the highlighted rock shapes. 
I left the greens and finishing the rocks until the last stage. At this point I found I was painting as I normally do… but I got a bit stuck on the reflections. I found a YouTube video that helped quite a bit. I’m pretty happy with how this one turned out and I think I’m finally beginning to paint with a particular style of my own. It’s the largest oil painting I’ve done. Once this is dry I may go back into it and up the contrast in the sky just a bit. Enjoy!
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