![]() In conclusion I’d like to say this will be printed. I still use Photoshop for compositing, but the majority of my time is spent in ArtRage these days. While I find its interface useful the design of it is too distracting at times. ArtRage 4.5 is now 64-bit, and it doesn’t want to take over the entire screen anymore. Since painting on Post Pluviam ArtRage has addressed many of the problems I expressed in that work’s essay. Using a gamut mask has a huge advantage in that you end up with a slice of the entire color wheel as if you were a photographer putting a color filter on the camera - except with more precise control. Gamut masks can be of any shape but the traditional shape is a triangle of some sort. This time around I limited myself via a gamut mask. In my last painting I limited the color palette by limiting myself to a few different pigments. It was only fitting to use Canada’s red for the dominant color. It is instead Canadian red, Pantone 485 C. The exception was the red, my dominant color. I used lemon yellow, permanent green light, cobalt turquoise light, ultramarine, and rose tyrien in my color wheel, however all of them are desaturated to varying degrees. The colors I pick when painting lately - at least with the last couple of paintings - have corresponding tube paints. A look into my color palette The Enmity of the Maples’ gamut maskīecause I wanted the red of the trees to stand out it is the most saturated color in my limited color gamut. I felt the only way to do The Trees and Hemispheres justice was to simply push myself off that proverbial cliff just as Rush themselves did. Rush pushed themselves past their limits so much that many tracks on the album were used by many musicians that followed as a guide to hone their own skills. Hemispheres, the album The Trees is a part of, is considered by many to be among the best progressive rock albums in existence. Color Palette & TechniqueĪnother goal with this painting as is with everything I’ve done lately is to push myself as far as I could go. The color and the fact they’re “bleeding” leaves give off the sense that something isn’t right. This makes the maples stand out more than everything else while still being in shadow. ![]() The solution to both problems was to make the maples largely red in a mostly-green environment. I also needed to anthropomorphize trees in a realistic painting style. This meant that the primary subject matter of the painting had to be in shadow - a contrast to conventional wisdom of composition. My idea from the beginning was to paint the first half of the song where the Maples were protesting not getting enough light from their Oak neighbors. I’ve stated before I don’t much care for painting landscapes not because I necessarily find the subject matter boring but because compositions almost always aren’t interesting enough to make me want to spend a considerable amount of hours at my Wacom tablet prodding away at it. It seemed like as good of a time as any to finally paint it. I’ve had an idea to paint a visual interpretation of our favorite band Rush’s masterpiece of a song, The Trees. ![]() Like me he recently purchased a house, and he mentioned he wanted a painting for it. ![]() Just as Post Pluviam was for my mother this one is for my close friend Jeff King. She would have been shocked to see my painting a landscape. My mother never got to see this painting at any stage during its process, and for that I am ashamed. She enjoyed looking at Post Pluviam and even had me crop it to be used as a home screen image for her phone. I am just glad I was able to paint her something before she left me. This painting, however, has been therapeutic in dealing with everything that has happened recently. That means I began this before her death, and I’d be lying if I said it was difficult at times to work on this. I didn’t have much free time for painting. My mother fell really ill late in 2013, and I spent all of last year taking care of her until she passed away two months ago. I realize I haven’t written here in quite some time. (And they’re quite convinced they’re right) ![]()
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