Amy's art in
progress.
See regular updates of
my progress on each new painting.
I was asked to help with a painting for a local church's Christmas celebration in December of 2015. They wanted a huge oil painting of the shepherd story from the Bible's overall account of Jesus' birth. I came up with some intriguing ideas but later decided that I couldn't meet the deadline in the scale they were asking for. But I decided to do the painting anyway, just smaller, because it will be fun to do a nocturne painting and I also got inspired looking at some of Remington's nocturne paintings of cowboys around a campfire. That is how I picture the shepherds. Just sitting around a quiet campfire when, boom, these angels appear and talk to them. And a window into heaven's beauty was before their eyes. Must have been something to see.
Today I started the dark sky and land.
9.18.2015
I added in more green in the sky to draw your eye towards the angel and also to give it a sort of aurora borealis look to it.
9.20.2015
More work on the conrasting colors in the sky today. I added some dark blues and purples to it.
9.27.2015
I added in the trees in the horizon and I added in dark shadows on the ground in the background. I also started working on more of the details of the fire and the shadows around it.
9.29..2015
I started adding the shepherd today.
10.13.2015
I added some highlights to the shepherd and some smoke above the fire.
10.21.2015
I added the first sheep.
10.30.2015
I worked on the sheep more today but it still needs a lot more work. I started adding another sheep and shepherd today too.
10.31.2015
I added another shepherd and some more sheep.
11.10.2015
11.15.2015
I added more white around the shepherd to show the light coming from the angel.
11.16.2015
I added some pinks and purples to the sky today.
11.20.2015
11.21.2015
I worked on the angel more and a added a little white to the sky.
12.02.2015
I decided to add some orange drama to the sky.
12.06.2015
12.08.2015
12.11.2015
I aded some warm shadows to the sheep and shepherds to show the fire light reflecting off of them.
12.13.2015
I am finished! I aded the stars today and a red outline around the angel.
