{"id":12077,"date":"2021-09-17T15:26:03","date_gmt":"2021-09-17T15:26:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/finearchitecturalillustration.com\/?p=12077"},"modified":"2021-09-17T15:26:03","modified_gmt":"2021-09-17T15:26:03","slug":"watercolor-of-foggy-setting-in-brookings-oregon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/finearchitecturalillustration.com\/index.php\/2021\/09\/17\/watercolor-of-foggy-setting-in-brookings-oregon\/","title":{"rendered":"Watercolor of Foggy Setting in Brookings, Oregon"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is a simple painting….<\/p>\n

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Brookings 1, Watercolor by Jeffrey Michael George, 2021<\/p><\/div>\n

While waiting for a custom sweatshirt to be printed at a seaside shop, I was struck by the effect of the fog rolling in from the Pacific Ocean.\u00a0 To explain the simple approach to painting this scene, I would offer this:\u00a0 Nothing is “penciled in” or laid out, you just start painting.\u00a0 Light gray sky first with some rough tree silhouettes establish the composition and allow you to further refine the perspective.\u00a0 Next, some intermediate ground plane (brownish areas) to define the coastline.\u00a0 Throwing some gray on what’s left over in the foreground completes the scene–and since I’m standing in a parking lot, I’m not going to add detail to this area, because it’s inconsequential.\u00a0 The essential goal of this painting is to capture the fade-out effect of the fog in the atmosphere–the way it obscures more and more the further you look toward the horizon.\u00a0 Just as in reality, the painting shows the distant landscape and ocean horizon barely discernable.\u00a0 As trees, land forms and buildings get closer to you, they begin to gain slightly darker values, with the closest tree having the darkest value in the painting.\u00a0 Two brushes used:\u00a0 a wide flat and a pointed round.\u00a0 Ultramarine, sepia, phthalo green, a little manganese are the only paints.\u00a0 Size is 5″ x 8″.\u00a0 \u00a0I like paintings such as this because the goals are simple….and the end effect is clear and true to the initial intent and inspiration…no need to accent with cars, colorful buildings, or any other extraneous detail–things that would detract from the essential point being made.\u00a0 Just an ode to the intrinsic beauty of nature in a tender moment.\u00a0 And as an artist, I could not explain the simple joy of painting a scene like this–it’s cathartic and soothing and makes you feel at ease!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is a simple painting…. While waiting for a custom sweatshirt to be printed at a seaside shop, I was struck by the effect of the fog rolling in from the Pacific Ocean.\u00a0 To explain the simple approach to painting this scene, I would offer this:\u00a0 Nothing is “penciled in” or laid out, you just […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,11,1],"tags":[51,80,86,118],"class_list":["post-12077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal-fun-stuff","category-perspective-drawing","category-uncategorized","tag-illustration","tag-perspective","tag-rendering","tag-watercolor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/finearchitecturalillustration.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12077","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/finearchitecturalillustration.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/finearchitecturalillustration.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/finearchitecturalillustration.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/finearchitecturalillustration.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12077"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/finearchitecturalillustration.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12077\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/finearchitecturalillustration.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/finearchitecturalillustration.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/finearchitecturalillustration.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}