McKee Summer 3

'Summer', the last in my series of paintings for McKee Hospital in Loveland Colorado, is nearly complete.  I painted the rocks and the near grassy areas, then I masked out the rocks and shoreline so I can get the water painted.



McKee Summer 2

Quite a bit of progress on the final painting for McKee Hospital.  At this point the trees are in and the Colorado Columbine in the lower left are done!  The most tedious work is finished; today I'll paint the rocks and the water, then it'll be substantially complete.



McKee Summer 1

Got a good start on the final painting of my 'seasons' series for McKee Hospital in Loveland, Colorado.  This one is Summer, depicting a mountain range in Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado columbine and other wildflowers, aspen & spruce trees, and a mountain pond.

After drawing the scene, particularly the columbine and the trees, I masked out areas that needed to be saved while I dropped in the sky, mountains and mid-ground meadow.  This photo shows the painting with masking fluid.

After the painting was completely dry, I removed the masking fluid.  See how the background pops out from behind the foliage in the trees?  Today I'll work on the trees, and hopefully also have time to paint the columbine in the lower left of the piece.





McKee Spring 4

Whoopee!  I finished Spring today, the 3rd of 4 'seasons' paintings McKee Hospital in Loveland CO commissioned for the main reception lobby.  I'm pretty pleased with this one; I think it came together wonderfully. The wild iris in the lower right, as well as indications of lupine, compliment the spring grasses and tree foliage.

 

 

Tomorrow I start on Summer, repleat with Colorado Columbine -- it'll be another especially fun piece to create!

McKee Spring 3

Here I've removed the masking fluid on the wild irises, and painted the rocks and the spruce trees in the mid-ground.  Today I'll try to get this one done; I can't wait to paint the wildflowers!  I'll detail the aspen trees, lay in the pond, and finish the distant mid-ground.



McKee Spring 2

I'm working like crazy on my series of paintings for McKee Hospital in Loveland.  This is 'Spring', the 3rd in the series of seasons.  The mid-ground is laid in and wild irises drawn in the lower left foreground. The irises and foliage have been masked out with a special fluid, allowing me to drop in a deep value contrast.  I don't often use masking fluid but where there's lots of tiny detail it's really tedious to try to negative paint the background around each element -- this is a perfect example of that.



McKee Spring 1

The 3rd of my series of  'seasons' watercolors for McKee Hospital in Loveland, CO is 'Spring'.  This one has Mt. Hallett, spring wildflowers including wild iris, aspen trees just leafing out, and Engleman spruce.  I got a pretty good start on it.