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Varenna Harbor

Posted on October 9, 2011 by jennifereyoung| 1 Comment

This little piece took longer than I expected. There is quite a lot of information so I thought it a good idea to work some things out on a smaller canvas before tackling a larger sized studio piece. I’m glad I did! I do think it will work well on a larger scale (24x36ish) so I now feel like I have a few things figured out for the next version! Any way, let’s not jump too far ahead, shall we? Here is the current version, on a linen mounted panel :

Italian landscape painting Lake Como Italy
“Varenna Harbor”
Oil on Linen, 16×12″
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Pienza Hillside (WIP complete)

Posted on September 5, 2011 by jennifereyoung| 2 Comments

Well this painting has actually been completed for a little while now, but thanks to Hurricane Irene, we had been without power for over a week up until yesterday. Here is the final version of the Italian landscape work-in-progress I shared in my prior post:

Tuscany landscape oil painting by Jennifer Young

“Pienza Hillside”
Oil on Linen, 24×30″
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I will keep this post brief today so that I can do a bit of clean up. From the looks of it you would think the eye of the hurricane passed right through the middle of my studio!





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This week on the easel: Val d’Orcia W.I.P.

Posted on August 18, 2011 by jennifereyoung| Leave a comment

Just a quick post to share what is in progress on the easel this week:

My studio time (which includes painting, but also varnishing and framing, website updates, emails, blogging, photography, sales/marketing, office work, etc.) is now limited to a few hours every other weekday. Painting takes precidence, but every now and then I really must play catch-up with “everything else”. So it was with Monday, and I only had time to do the layout in sepia:

Tuscany landscape painting in progress by Jennifer Young

Upon my return to the easel, I tackeled the block-in (first pass) which is still mainly shadows and midtones:

tuscany landscape painting in progress by jennifer young

Time ran out before I was able to get to the hilltop buildings, but I was happy to have covered the rest of this 24×30″ canvas in about 3 1/2 hours. Because I can’t always get back to an “open” painting, I at least want to return to a canvas that is brought to the same level of completion in all areas.

This is a view I have painted before (a number of years ago) and I am returning to it now to see if I can use a looser approach. There is quite a bit of information in this scene, and my aim is to relay a feeling of the variety in the landscape of Tuscany, but in a more unified, simplified manner, without articulating everything in minute detail.





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Varenna painting complete

Posted on July 19, 2011 by jennifereyoung| Leave a comment

Just a quick post to share the final version of the Lake Como painting I wrote about in my last post:

Landscape painting of Varenna Italy

“La Passarella, Varenna”
Oil on Linen, 24×20″
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This view shows small fishing and leisure boats in front of the arched foot path called “La Passarella”  that winds its way around Varenna. Known as “the pearl of the lake”, Varenna is one of the most beautiful towns on Lake Como. A great place to leisurely wander and get lost! 

I also really enjoyed this version of the limited palette I wrote about in my last post. I can see myself using this one again (as soon as I buy more Cad. Red Medium!)  One of these days I will find time to update my website. In the meantime, please contact me for additional details about the painting and/or to purchase.





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On the easel -Varenna (Lake Como) W.I.P

Posted on July 13, 2011 by jennifereyoung| Leave a comment

Just a quick post to share what’s been on my easel of late. It’s been so blazing hot this week that I have not found an opportunity to get back outside and have pretty much retreated to the studio to work. I’m still keeping things relatively small for the time being, though 20×24″ isn’t, for me, exactly tiny:

Lake Como, Italy landscape painting by Jennifer Young

Yet again I thought I’d experiment with another limited palette, using the “big three” primaries of red, yellow blue. In this case the red is Cadmium red medium, the yellow, cad. yellow pale, and my ol’ friend ultramarine. The main difference for me is using cad. red medium. I almost never use this red but found some in my bins and thought, why not? At first I felt like I was shooting myself in the foot with this palette on this subject, as it is a bit more muted than when I use my usual gem-like transparent red of alizarin crimson. But having gotten used to it, I am quite liking it. I think I should be finished with this piece in another session or two, which will hopefully be this week, providing I have the studio time.





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