Friday, July 11, 2008

SUMMER CLOUDS - STUDY

While I am still hard at work on a few larger works which aren't finished yet, I did manage to complete this small study. This one is more about the clouds than anything else - I like the effect of the sun bursting through the bottom of the cloud formation and it's reflection on the water. Since the clouds were so heavily back-lit, I struggled to get the tones of the clouds correct but this is why I do so many smaller studies like this. It really doesn't matter how many times they are repainted or if they become finished paintings or not. In many ways, each one is more of an experiment than anything else and my studio is littered with them! Some are mere scraps of canvas tacked to a board, others are done on gessoed paper but all are important to me in one way or another. This oil is 8" X 10".

2 comments:

John said...

Hey Jeremy,

How's it going? Just wanted to let you know that your landscapes really knock my socks off! Keep up the great work.

Jeremy Pearse said...

Hi Johnny,
Many thanks for the comment, I am having fun with them. In many ways they have taken me down paths I would perhaps not have travelled. I love what you do too especially your figurative work and would love to see more of them.