40 x 50 cm Oil on canvas
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March 28, 2011
March 23, 2011
My painting today
Another session on my Provencal copse with a couple of details. Mostly worked on the trees which need a little more work especially trunks and branches need to be more graceful.
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March 22, 2011
Painting over an old acrylic base
Oils are luscious with higher pigment load... plus the experience gained since then...
50 x 40 cm
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March 11, 2011
Trust the process - dusk painting
The painting is beginning to get somewhere. I am lingering on building up the colors little by little. Building up the light and building up the dark. I want it to to be a subdued explosion of color.
Not quite yet at that point but... trust the process.
Not quite yet at that point but... trust the process.
80 x 60 cm
oil on canvas
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a detail
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March 7, 2011
Painting myself into a corner
I have been painting myself into a corner, so to speak, with my "Tourist Posing" painting. My tension has been building over a few days. I have been feeling frustrated and confined by the subject.
I needed to to take some action to ease the stress.
Having recently sold a painting, that was missed by the household, an evening view out our back window - "Mermillod Sunset", I thought I might paint a similar painting.
So I jumbed on the idea and what a relief it is. It feels fine, I feel connected to the painting, and my stress has magically eased.
No doubt, the discipline of painting out of my comfort zone will be a plus somewhere down the road, but creating should also sometimes be jubilation, don't you think?
This time the canvas is larger than "Mermillod Sunset" , 80 x 60 cm, and if all goes well it will be hung possibly in our bedroom facing the bed.
This is the first time I start a painting with the intention of keeping it.
Here is the result so far after one session.
I needed to to take some action to ease the stress.
Having recently sold a painting, that was missed by the household, an evening view out our back window - "Mermillod Sunset", I thought I might paint a similar painting.
So I jumbed on the idea and what a relief it is. It feels fine, I feel connected to the painting, and my stress has magically eased.
No doubt, the discipline of painting out of my comfort zone will be a plus somewhere down the road, but creating should also sometimes be jubilation, don't you think?
This time the canvas is larger than "Mermillod Sunset" , 80 x 60 cm, and if all goes well it will be hung possibly in our bedroom facing the bed.
This is the first time I start a painting with the intention of keeping it.
Here is the result so far after one session.
Mermillod Evening
oil on canvas 80 x 60 cm
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acrylic under-painting
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