Monochrome Impasto Oil Painting Class
Some of the best surf I have ever witnessed is found at Schoodic Point, Acadia National Park, in Maine. Magma Rock is sandwiched in between pinkish orange granite, creating exciting lines of dark green gray (lava flow lines, called dikes from thousands of years ago), that descend into the sea. The surf explodes vertically from dramatic North Atlantic storm's that sometimes reaches over twenty feet, showering the rocks below.
Schoodic means in Wabanaki tribal languages, "the place of the fiery Rocks", named no doubt, after they witnessed the active lava flows that have long since become inactive. I chose this study to do as a demonstration for my Impasto Oil Landscape class at the United Technologies Center's restaurant classroom in Bangor, Maine. We discussed the importance of making monochromes before painting the full color version. In this monochrome oil painting, I'm using Ivory Black, Indigo, and Titanium White oil paint mixed with black oil wax medium on gessoed canvas.
Enjoy,
Michael E. Vermette
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