Drunken painting: Autumn on the Rideau River, Canada

Drunken painting.

Here is a small Oil painting I did on 8 x 10 canvas. I usually paint with a glass of Whisky in one hand ....

It is of the dense dark fall colours along the Rideau River in Canada. I paint watercolours from my kayak and then later make larger oil paintings from those. This is from a photo I took in the kayak looking back at the shore.

Some Digital Blending after effects....

Here is the Timelapse Video :

These are the steps in my Painting Process...

Step1: Pour a drink.

Step 1 1/2: Start with a burnt Siena under painting on the canvas.

Step 2: Add the colours of the maples, birch and sumac using a lot of oil on my brush.

Step 3: begin to add the darker greens and shadows of the coniferous trees.

Step 4: Add the pale blue sky along the top of the painting and between the trees.

Some details of the brush work. I practice painting quickly so that I am able to paint from the kayak while being eaten by mosquitoes and black flies.

This is a photo of my small studio set up. I’m painting from an original photograph I took with my phone on the Rideau River.

The final painting is almost abstract.

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