Ohio Falls Bridge Painting, Part I
This is the beginning of the first painting I have done in a very long time. It was the number one goal I mentioned in an earlier post on my goals for the year to create a painting to hang over my mantel by the beginning of spring, so today I started it. I decided to use a photo I took on December 26, 2007 of the Ohio Falls Bridge, also known as the Fourteenth Street Bridge, at the Falls of the Ohio.
The canvas size is 36 x 24 inches, and I am working in oils. For the first step, I created a very light pencil drawing, and chose some rudimentary colors for a very thin wash. I will build up more color, detail and paint as the painting progresses, and post photos here of the progress. It’s great to be painting again. It may not be much to look at now, but hopefully by the time I am done with it, it will be. Regardless, the joy is in the doing. Oh, and reading my fellow blogger Michelle’s wonderful articles on her landscape painting has been very inspirational to me this time around. She is a fantastic artist. So thanks, Michelle!
Here is the original photo I took:
If you want to read more about the bridge, you can click this Wikipedia link.
