My Babygirl the Bride

8 x 10 oil on clayboard

This is a small study I completed recently. It is a learning piece for a much larger painting, (at least double in size). I don't have much landscape experience, and I was merging three different photos, so I wanted to do a small practice one. It went well enough that I kept going with it to make it nice enough to give to my daughter. I am still going to do the larger one. That one will be for myself! Also, by making it larger I will be able to make it a better portrait. Goodness, her face is only a 1/2 inch tall. That was not easy!

Here are two of the photos:

She got married in October at a beautiful venue, but the trees had not turned color quite yet. You can see in my painting that I also tried popping out a little more autumn coloring.

Here's a couple steps in the process:

One more note: See that splash of water in the pond? When I was a little girl, my grandfather and I would go to his pond, sit on the bank, and throw stones in to watch the ripples. We called it kerplunking stones, and we would do it often. Many years ago, but in my adulthood, I made it back to that pond. I threw a stone in and got a photo of it splashing. I'm hoping to get a little more detail on the splash when I do the larger piece. A "ripples of time" kind of thing.

Thanks for stopping by!