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Dale Kurtz's Painting Sequence - Example of his steps in painting a picture
In approaching his paintings, Dale Kurtz says that he is working light to dark. Thus in painting each STEP/shape below, he begins with the lightest colors.
Dale Kurtz Painting Sequence __ for WOW! 2026 Spring Workshop
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Dale Kurtz: Sample Painting Sequence _ STEP 1 (for WOW! 2026 Spring Workshop)
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Painting Sequence - STEP 1 - Mask in:
- Focal Point _ Person in Canoe (Actually, the person in the canoe is Dale's wife).
- Highlights _ Shrubs Lines, Trees, Branches, Dead Trees, Downed Tree, Snow on Mountain
Dale Kurtz: Sample Painting Sequence _ STEP 2 (for WOW! 2026 Spring Workshop)
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Painting Sequence - STEP 2 - Paint distant and mid ground:
- Mountain spaces _ some areas brown and other parts grays
- Mid Hills _ shades of grays
- Trees far left side of River _ various colors
- Trees right side of River _ shades of greens and blues
- Shrubs _ shades of green
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Dale Kurtz: Sample Painting Sequence _ STEP 3 (for WOW! 2026 Spring Workshop)
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Painting Sequence - STEP 3 - Remove Masking on Mountain
Paint in colors:
- Mid-ground Hills/Trees - Varied Blues and greens; Center Hill - Dark Grays
- Front Hill_ Greens, Blues, Spots of Brown/orange on trees
adding shadowed areas and textures
- Use Negative Painting to define foreground hill and trees
- River _ Light Greens
Dale Kurtz: Sample Painting Sequence _ STEP 4 (for WOW! 2026 Spring Workshop)
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Painting Sequence - STEP 4 - Remove Masking on trees in foreground hill
- Define Shapes, Add and Deepen Shadows along with Using Negative Painting to:
- Mountain peak, valleys, and ridges and midground hill and foreground hill
- Tall trees and shrubs in the foreground
- On foreground hill, paint in rocks along river and the lighter colors on 'unmasked trees'
- Paint the 'shadowed' bush and its shadow - shades of blue
- Add light and darker shades of greens to areas in channel of Sparks Lake
- Paint in shrubs and rocks adding shadows and highlights
Dale Kurtz: Sample Painting Sequence _ STEP 5 (for WOW! 2026 Spring Workshop)
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Painting Sequence - STEP 5 - Remove Masking from Person, Canoe, Oars
- Paint Person and Canoe and Oars
- Add details to dead trees and downed tree
- Add Reflections in the narrow channel of Sparks Lake between the larger north and south ends
- Deepen shadows and add highlights to Rocks, Trees, and Shrubs as needed
