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Coastal Meditation 4×6 Oil Painting Demonstration!

Join me as I paint 'Coastal Meditation,' a 4×6 inch coastal landscape designed for the tourist market. These small paintings are affordable, quick to execute, and folks on holiday really respond to them. This one's pretty generic in location—just trees, water, and a path—but it turned out quite different from a similar piece I'd done before. The reference had one significant challenge: all those trees. Instead of two clear trees, it was a tangled mass of overlapping forms and foliage. Here's my best advice, and I've been showing this by example in nearly every painting: dramatically simplify things. If you've got eight trunks in the reference, you might get away with two. That's probably what happened here. I'm working on MDF panels covered with three good coats of house paint. I know it's basically evolved cardboard, but it's smooth, affordable, and stable. Treat it like work on paper—nothing likes being immersed in water anyway, including canvas. I see no reason not to use panels for most work. Canvas became popular for portability and because large panels become heavy, but for the work I do, panels are ideal. The sky here is a colorful abstract—the M. Francis sky. It took on a geometric feel, and when the gallery saw it, they loved it. The whole underpainting is about creating basic underpinnings, simplifying, getting rough values in, but mostly about composition and design. I like to leave things amorphous where trees meet sky, moving away from working that area too tightly. I like to get a painting like this done in one day. Here's why: you're not the same every day. Some days you're more lucid, some days happier or sadder. The longer it takes, the more different versions of yourself are involved in the process. For expressive, emotive interpretation, the best approach is to work deliberately but decisively. If I'm pressed for time, I'll do underpainting one day and color work the next. That works great. For larger pieces, I might do underpainting, then sky in one session, land in the next. My approach is always shadows to highlights—sky first, then land. Oil paint gives you latitude, but this mirrors how nature works. If you paint all the bright stuff first and plop shadows on top, it feels false. Working on that brown ground, I'm letting the board peek through. A bit of board color peeking around is way better than bright white. I find white highlights peeking around very distracting—that's my painter's opinion. The foreground grasses and path were exciting to paint. The variation and play of light hitting the path was a real feature of the reference, and I think I pulled it off well. You can see tree shadows there. It's a bit indiscriminate where the light comes from in the sky alone, but you can get away with that because the sun hits various clouds in various configurations and makes them bright. Next week: a very exciting coastal scene painted on gray instead of brown, with some beautiful and inspiring compositional results. The full color mixing session is available in the Members Area. ✍️ Substack Studio Pass: https://mfrancismccarthy.substack.com... 📺 YouTube Members Area:    / @mfrancis   🎨 Supplies Page: https://www.landscapepainter.co.nz/st... 📚 Buy My Book here: https://www.landscapepainter.co.nz/book ✍️ Substack: https://mfrancismccarthy.substack.com/ 📝 Current Blog: https://www.landscapepainter.co.nz/20... 🎨 My website: https://www.landscapepainter.co.nz/ 📧 Join my Mailing List: https://www.landscapepainter.co.nz/ma... 🛒 My store: https://www.landscapepainter.co.nz/pr... 🎵 My music: https://abyssm.bandcamp.com/ 💝 Support this channel: https://www.landscapepainter.co.nz/do... YouTube Tags #OilPainting #Tonalism #LandscapePainting #ArtDemonstration #CoastalPainting #MiniPainting #MiniaturePainting #ColorMixing #PaintingTechniques #MikeMcCarthyArt #MFrancisMcCarthy #ArtTutorial #StudioInsights #Brushwork #ExpressiveArt #OilPaintingTips #CoastalMeditation #MDFPanel #TonedGround #SimplificationTechnique #PaintingProcess #ArtisticProcess #TonalHarmony #LandscapePainter #PaintingDemonstration #OneDayPainting #GroundColor