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| Many collectors have expressed interest in Jan's creative process, so this area will feature photos of a current painting in progress from inception to completion. It will be updated usually twice a week. Check back often! |
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| Jan has been invited to participate in a prestigious museum exhibit entitled COWGIRL UP! It features western art by prominent western artists. Jan is the first "wildlife" artist who has been invited. She wanted to do something really eyecatching, and after looking through her reference she decide to do a cougar perched in an old dead snag overlooking a beautiful red rock valley. Here are the two main photos she will be working from. |
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| Jan does a drawing to size on tracing paper which she attaches to the top of the painting with hinges of masking tape. This way she can flip the drawing back and forth to transfer elements onto the painting surface with artist transfer paper as she needs them. |
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| Jan is now starting on the far off hill. She is creating the trees with an old brush that she "pushes" upward. |
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| Jan has not painted the southwest very often. She wanted to do a little research on the colors to use in painting the red rocks. An artist named Kenny McKenna, who specializes in this area, is in the same gallery with her (Settlers West) and also does Natureworks. He just had an article in the recent ART OF THE WEST. She pulled some of the pages out of the magazine to study how he did rocks. Jan is a big believer in studying, not only nature, but other artists' work as well. |
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| Part of the background is now done. You can see where Jan has flipped the drawing back over and transferred part of the main elements so that she can see where the cat and tree will be in the composition. |
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| More of the background has been started, loosely "scrumbling" it in to create texture and delineate where the rocks and vegetation will be. |
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