Red Chair and Yellow Wall.....Cabo Painting

Original photo of scene in Cabo while eating breakfast.

 

iPad sketch to use as reference for painting

I use this iPad sketch to simplify and acquaint myself with the subject as you would use a quick jesture thumbnail sketch on paper.

After deciding on what to include in the painting I start blocking in the background area.

Then I start working forward to the middle ground and then foreground and finally the shadows and highlights. I still have a couple of corrections to make. For instance the chair is tilted forward to much and I need to work on shadows coming in to the picture plane from the bottom. Then a signature will be due.

16x20 Acrylic on Ampersand board