Soaring Bald Eagle Progress

A week into my new Bald Eagle painting for Mike & Pattie Callahan and things are moving right along. Very happy with the local colour and have blocked in my large areas and made sure the colours are “singing” together (pic1). Now that I am happy with the local colour I can start to block in some shape and form in the mountains. Really have to make sure the purple and pinks vibrate off of each other in the mountains. The whole composition is based on the play of the analogous colour scheme and I will need to pick up more purples and pinks in the mountains so they will have some unity with the sky down the road (pic2). Really loving the mountains right now, the shape and sense of depth are already staring to show and I have not even started on the receding mountains where we can really establish some depth. I have shot the first two pics with my iPhone so they are not so great, the third pic is much better quality, but shot on a very dark and rainy day in my studio so the colour is a little pale. Hope to get some great shots for the next blog entry sometime this week. Happy painting everyone.

Pic3 - Mountains weell on thier way

Pic2 - shape and form staring to come around

Pic3- Mountains are really starting to come alive!