Zed A. Shaw, Painter

My internet at home was down all day so I finished off this painting process. Once you have the initial block-in, you next start to refine each big shape with 2-3 inner shapes. Here's me starting with the sky, and the shadow. It's subtle, but the 2nd pic here is the previous.pic.twitter.com/XqyloHz6hW

Next repeat the process of refining inside the light rocks shapes, and fixing a bit of drawing here and there, and alter the cactus some. All is done inside the initial shapes, but moving them around here and there as needed.pic.twitter.com/q2PbgekFV9

We now enter the "Terrible Middle Stage", where everything looks bad because it loses the strength of the first statement block-in, but doesn't have any of the refinement of the final painting. I've altered the inner shapes to 2-3 so now in this one I start refining more.pic.twitter.com/DiKP1FKapB

During this I'm following the whole process, of finding a shape, studying it, figuring out the inner shapes, and slowly improving them. The key with this impressionist style is you don't try to do any exact details until the very end, and then you just do a few.pic.twitter.com/dzzyiYh7z4

Now...this photo is kind of terrible because of lighting, but you see how I'm adding smaller and smaller details and altering shapes, but still not tiny things like twigs or the exact tiny little shapes of rock clusters, still simple, just now has some texture in the clouds,etc.pic.twitter.com/OLROx4mvPE

I'm close to the end, and I can start adding in a bit of details here and there, just enough to make people think they see something. I don't paint every little twig in the shadow, just a few so it tricks you into seeing it like a bush. I also just removed that left cactus.pic.twitter.com/JgZGbEruJP