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North from Rockwood Hall State Park

14 Dec 2008 posted by sdoherty
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William Hook often uses square formats for his landscapes, and I really like the way the proportions set up a specific kind of design problem. I tried painting my favorite location on a square panel this summer, and I really enjoyed the process. Rockwood Hall offers one of the few elevated, unobsructed views of the Hudson River in Westchester County. The property was once the location of William Rockefeller's home and it was donated to the state of New York by the Rockefeller family.

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Anonymous wrote
on 15 Dec 2008 6:05 AM

You really have fun when you paint! It shows in your work. Again, I think there is a bit too much brightness in the photo

because we aren't seeing the subtle values.

Are you painting these on board?

Is this about 10" x 10"?

Nice feeling about your work.

johanne7 wrote
on 15 Dec 2008 9:46 AM

I like the feeling and atmosphere of this painting but I think it may need a few accents of very light and very dark tones to really make it pop spectacularly.

Lori Woodward wrote
on 15 Dec 2008 1:32 PM

Wow, Steve... great composition!  Love the diagonals in the path and clouds. Great atmospheric perspective as well. Nice tree limb shapes... variety and what Edgar Payne calls the "Steelyard" composition.

You already know all this stuff,don't you... but just thought I'd mention it - excellent work.

Lori

sdoherty wrote
on 17 Dec 2008 10:50 AM

Kells,

Yes, it was painted on a 10" x 10" panel made by a young guy in Nashville (Sulkowski). I bought them at the Utrecht store near our old office location in Manhattan. The surface is smoother than I would like and I have to mix alkyd medium with the first strokes of paint to make sure they set up quickly, but it is a quality product with enough weight to keep it from warping.

Joanne, I'm actually pleased that I restrained myself from punching in too many strong dark or bright highlights. My tendency is to push the contrast and lose the sense of light and atmosphere in the finished painting. I'm trying to work more in the middle range of values for as long as possible and keep the sense that there is a lot of moist air between me and the distant shapes.

Anonymous wrote
on 30 Mar 2009 8:32 AM

Great Job!!!

Jay DePalma wrote
on 10 Oct 2010 6:12 PM

Another FLOP!

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