#30×30 Day 07 : The Wandering Path
I didn’t have a specific painting for inspiration this time, more like, a kind of composition I find myself returning to.
This is a classic device – the idea of shaping the landscape to make a wandering path which leads the viewer into the painting. It’s something I do all the time these days. You might think I’d get tired of it, but I never do. I love to look back at my pictures and follow these pathways out to the horizon.
Maybe it’s there already – after all, you got to the view somehow right? You were probably following a walking path already. Sometimes you just need to take what’s there, and make it a little more obvious. Clean up the edges, make it a little easier to see the path.
Combine that with distance planes, made by desaturating and blue shifting the color in clearly defined bands, and you immediately have the illusion of depth.
All righty! I hope you’ve had a great day of painting. See you tomorrow!
~m
Citizen Sketcher 
YIKES! That’s good, Marc!
Absolutely gorgeous!
Hola Marc! El año pasado me agarró la pandemia en Holanda en casa de mi hija….Ahí estuve meses y tuve la suerte de comprar tu libro online…me salvo…me dio mucha energía!!! Ahora estoy en mi casa. En San Martín de los Andes. Patagonia. Argentina
Tengo una página con acuarelistas de acá….estoy felizzzz pintando. Quería agradecerte y felicitarte por tu actividad…sos inspirador…
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Soy María Rosa Maestretti..y te admiro!
Abrazoooo
Hi Marc,
I really appreciate your work and posts. In these paintings, I particularly admire your control of edges with paint. Do you have tips or a workshop or video on how to work those paint edges? As an urban sketcher, I rely on the fast, hard black line of my fine tipped marker.
Cheers,
William
Hey William – this might be a good video very short – I have a few more on that chance – https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JkXM2sGyon0
Hey, Marc, were you working flat in this video?
Usually I like shallow angle, even the slightest tilt is enough. Without it you get pooling where the paper buckles.
Those blue grays are magic!
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