First oil painting in a few months, I must admit. A view i visit often. I painted it plein air, let it sit facing backwards for a few days, and painted over it completely today at home. There were some trees in the foreground, in real life, that I just could not seem to render, so I gave up. I painted very quickly and tried to quit when I could see i was fiddling…
First oil painting in a few months, I must admit. A view i visit often. I painted it plein air, let it sit facing backwards for a few days, and painted over it completely today at home. There were some trees in the foreground, in real life, that I just could not seem to render, so I gave up. I painted very quickly and tried to quit when I could see i was fiddling…
Louise Balaam - Monthly Landscape Painting
Well done Rachel, nice luscious strokes and a good control of tone. Definitely a good idea to stop painting when you feel you’re fiddling, it’s important to be sensitive to when that’s happening. And good for you for being prepared to take out the trees which weren’t working. That kind of thing can be difficult because we have the idea of a tree in our mind & we can end up being in left-brain mode, being too aware of what we’re trying to do