Urban Painting

Yesterday we gathered at Courthouse Square to paint an urban setting. It was collllllddddd! Got a decent pic, but it feels sort of empty to me. No people (there weren't any at the time I painted to model). All Chroma Atelier Interactive paints in this one.

Some Pix of Me Painting

Chilly in them thar hills!

Meetup painters out in the Purissima Creek Redwood forest preserve on a very cold and damp morning. Not the best, but it does work (and the scans and pix taken by my cellphone have a tendency toward blue and washing out yellow, so color is inaccurate.) Having trouble with greens, as most painters seem to do. A bit of impasto here that you cannot see.

In fact, I didn't notice until cleaning up that my fingertips were numb! 

BTW, both my scanner and my cell phone camera, which is where I start to upload, have a blue tint bias. That means that yellows are washed out and I can only compensate so much in Photoshop for that. What's odd is that I'm always painting outside where the light is naturally bluish most of the time. For all I know about color, it makes it very hard for me to demonstrate online so far the actual value, hue and chroma range of my painting, which is frustrating. Equally so, when I take them indoors, the color shift under artificial light of almost any kind is frustrating.