20 Minute Painting! #10, Boulder Flat Irons at Sunrise in Oils with Anna Rose Bain

In this short, 20-minute oil painting demo, Anna demonstrates her use of thumbnail sketches and photo references of a wintry Colorado foothills sunrise to create a composition for a studio painting. The twenty-minute painting in this demo can then serve as a color study for a larger, more detalied work.
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Follow along using the reference photo of Anna's subject by downloading it here ➡️ bit.ly/3zxe8LH
Additional photos: ➡️ bit.ly/4eVA6Ik ➡️ bit.ly/3LkVaKF ➡️ bit.ly/3VQpeTz ➡️ bit.ly/3VSJpjM
And remember, you can set a time limit that works for you… 25 minutes, 30 minutes, 40, etc.
Here’s my supply list for this painting, “Flat Irons Sunrise”:
Colors used:
Transparent Oxide Brown (Rembrandt) ➡️ bit.ly/47iOiq1
Vivid Magenta (Utrecht) ➡️ bit.ly/41XORnU
Cadmium Yellow (Michael Harding) ➡️ bit.ly/3TNp0x6
Warm light yellow (Michael Harding) ➡️ bit.ly/4aHgOEz
Titanium White (Michael Harding) ➡️ bit.ly/3S6KfIS
Vivid Blue (Utrecht) ➡️ bit.ly/3LewPX1
Radiant Turquoise (Gamblin) ➡️ bit.ly/3WdHtnp
Pthalo Blue (Sennelier) ➡️ bit.ly/4ctUMp7
Ivory Black (Rembrandt) ➡️ bit.ly/47vveol
Brushes:
Vine charcoal ➡️: bit.ly/3uMpTvE
Rosemary and Co. Ivory Filberts size 4 and 8
Gamsol ➡️: bit.ly/3hMzNCP
Canvas: Centurion oil-primed linen panel, size 4x8"
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[@bethscanlon7791]

Fantastic demonstration. I really enjoyed how you showed the entire process and included the reference photos for us. You’re a wonderful teacher.

[@AnnaRoseBain]

Thank you so much! I’m glad you enjoyed! I do love to teach.

[@richrogers2157]

I appreciate your video, having grown up in Boulder I lived on the mesa trail threading through those flatirons. As a painter I have been on a never ending quest to represent the essence of of those huge slabs of granite, my last few attempts were done with the knife , using aerial photographs as my reference-I am obsessed with with getting the placement of those rocks as close as possible to reality. All though I certainly do struggle with my painting looking cartoonish, on occasion I strike that magical balance. Thanks for the lesson and the trip down memory lane.

[@AnnaRoseBain]

Thank you for sharing! The Flat Irons are magical. 😍

[@danleathers267]

Great video! Thanks very much for sharing your process! I learned a lot!

[@AnnaRoseBain]

Glad it was helpful!

[@charmcrumrine8750]

Love your videos. Thank you

[@AnnaRoseBain]

Thank you for watching!

[@shelbyjagla2044]

Looks great. Miss Colorado so thanks for sharing.

[@AnnaRoseBain]

Thanks for watching!

[@thomaskauffman983]

Lovely

[@AnnaRoseBain]

Thank you!

[@mariapresnyakart]

Wow. I like it

[@AnnaRoseBain]

Thanks for watching!

[@DerekSiddle]

Always great to watch, thank you for sharing.

[@AnnaRoseBain]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@joanbauman1571]

Super enjoyed that!!! I am learning as you talk your way through it and the colors and shapes. What you’re thinking I find very beneficial and I find I’m thinking and looking around the pictures also. Thank you!

[@AnnaRoseBain]

Love it! Thank you for watching!

[@artbykcappadona5166]

I have a question for you. I haven’t done a lot of oil painting lately because I don’t know what to do with all these paintings. Some of them are beautiful and some of them are just average. They all have memories for me and I don’t like getting rid of them. I need to allow myself to just wipe them out and paint over them again. But I think to myself how do I know the next one is better than the one that was on it before. I don’t know what to do with all these paintings. I don’t have roomto keep storing them. Yes I have sold some but nowhere near enough. What do you do with all of your paintings even a little sketch like the one you’re doing here which is very pretty and someone would probably buy. But if it doesn’t sell, what what do you do with them?

[@AnnaRoseBain]

Hi there! To be honest I do sell some of my studies but I also have stacks of them piled up in my studio. That’s all part of being an artist. Even the world-class painters I know have stacks and stacks of studies and don’t sell everything they paint. Sometimes I paint over ones I don’t like very much, and 9 times out of 10 they turn out to be much better paintings.