Hey... update here.

Just wanted to let y'all know that we are still interested in painting sometime. Just have been making our basement much more livable recently. Our art supplies and easels are in a corner right now, and just haven't got around to building up a place to paint. But we probably will soon. Got some cool ideas for some new paintings in our heads and on paper. Just have to translate them onto canvas.

Alright... That's all I have to say for now.

- Stefan

About "Water Drop Marsh"

This one was done about a month ago, and you may have already seen it on our website. I'd like to take you a bit through the process of making it.

As I sat looking at the blank canvas, trying to roughly visualize what I could turn it into, an image of a mossy place with large boulders up front came into my mind. I then saw that it should be wet and misty. Next, I figured that I wanted the scene to be set against a far, massive forest.

As I started, I used grays and blues, as to create a wet effect. Then the farthest trees where added, using the same sky color, but tapped on at a vertical angel. As the forest neared I flavored the color more with greens and browns, also adding more paint to the brush. What came next is usually one of the most difficult parts of painting a landscape, for me at least.. deciding what is in front of the background. I chose it to be rocky, rolling hills.

As the painting progressed I found the idea of having water puddles in the foreground fitful. Afterwards, I added more bushy ground and big rocks... I wanted the rocks to be huge when I first started scraping them on, but found this would be harder than I thought; the reason being is that it would have taken too much paint to complete. I then finished the details (notice the small flowers and grassy spurts) and about called it quits- but realized it didn't seem as "wet" as I had first imagined. So I girded up enough bravery to stroke in a few rain drops. It worked fairly well, and I learned a few new tricks, like turning the drops gray when against a white background (notice the ones in the sky portion).

Later came an idea to add a plant on the left side of the picture. This would have to be done when the painting was dry I knew, so that is why I didn't do it then. Here is what I found on the net that may work well.
Ok, I'm done.

- Joey

Fall hath cometh!

You know what this means?...
We just might get motivated to paint more and better scenes, and bring this blog back to life! I can feel the wave of enthusiasm approaching as Autumn arrives and settles in. It's like I'm being awaken from a long and disturbing dream of a season called Summer. I feel life and reality returning to my soul.

We will be updating this blog much more than usual. And add new and fun posts and other features. Like drawings of paintings we sketch. Most of them we don't ever paint. And more information about our painting and art experiences. More pictures and filmings of inspiring landscapes and material. And more documentation of the processes we go through.

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It's time for the deep blues of the sky... the blushing leaves, and the perfect chill of the wind.

So be prepared! It's Artumn time!

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But in the meantime, if you have a Facebook account, you can check out each of our facebook galleries where we upload sketches and drawings of ours from our sketchbooks.

LINKS BELOW:

Joey's Drawings Album: http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1849252321&v=photos#/album.php?aid=6741&id=1849252321

Stefan's Drawings Album: http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1786972369&v=photos&ref=profile#/album.php?aid=7257&id=1786972369