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Clearing Snow

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Just started a new truck nocturne. This one pairs a 1/32 scale Peterbilt Model 379 dump truck from New Ray with a 1/50 scale Norscot Caterpillar 980G Wheel Loader. These die cast models were purchased from EBay, but 3000Toys seems to be a good source for inexpensive die cast models. First Gear,  New Ray, Norscot, and SpecCast make models with really fine detail.

For my purposes it doesn’t matter that the loader scale don’t match up with the dump truck because no one knows how big the loader is supposed to be and its smaller size actually lends to a sense of forced perspective.
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The trucks sit on a sheet of clear 1/8″ acrylic over a piece of black paper. The acrylic gives good wet-pavement reflections. The snow is white Kinetic Sand from Michaels. Lighting is from a variety of LED headlamps and button lights. The backdrop is a piece of black foam core, but it appears blue in the light of the headlamps.IMG_2642

15 Seconds of Fame

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King5 recently aired this Evening Magazine segment featuring the PAWA Mount Baker Paint Out. Here’s the pull quote:

“Art is infinite, there’s no way you could learn all of it in our lifetime. When you go out and paint with ten people, even if you are all standing in a line painting the same thing, you all paint something different… and you learn so much from seeing another way that another person sees the world.” — Michael Hopcroft

October 17, 2015

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This evening I painted the cab of the truck.

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My string was based on Cadmium Red Medium, brightened with Cadmium Yellow Medium and the tiniest amount Titanium White and darkened with Permanent Alizarin Crimson, Burnt Umber, and Prussian Blue. I mixed six steps initially, and then created the intermediates on the palette with the brush as I painted.

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In the next session I will tackle the grays that make up the chrome on the truck and the surface of the road. Then I plan to go back and work on the reflections – sharp ones in the puddles and more diffuse ones elsewhere. Once the truck is dry, I will go in with a liner brush and add the grooves around the doors and various access panels on the boom and create halos around the lights.

Intimate Impressionism

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This weekend I visited Intimate Impressionism from the National Gallery of Art which is on display at the Seattle Art Museum through January 10, 2016.