Here’s the painting post panic…..smoothed & brushed & tamed. I prefer the wilder first one, but doing this has been a very good learning process. I often feel I paint what’s expected – to please an audience. I’d find it very helpful, Louise, if you could do a post-painting video showing how you move on from an initial paint session to a finished painting. How do you return to a painting after a few days/weeks of ignoring it.
Here’s the painting post panic…..smoothed & brushed & tamed. I prefer the wilder first one, but doing this has been a very good learning process. I often feel I paint what’s expected – to please an audience. I’d find it very helpful, Louise, if you could do a post-painting video showing how you move on from an initial paint session to a finished painting. How do you return to a painting after a few days/weeks of ignoring it.
Louise Balaam - Monthly Landscape Painting
Thank you. Mike for your thoughts. I prefer the sky in this one, the first felt a bit chaotic! Maybe i should attack the foreground sometime soon?
Thank Louise – I think I’m learning to become a better destroyer and not stress about what went before. Thank s for your feedback. Lots to think about
In the first version the brushwork is particularly vigorous and energetic. You’ve still retained some of that in this version. I think I prefer this one as the values overall are stronger and the contrast in the sky is more dramatic.
Really good to see these two versions of the same painting Karen. I agree that I like the wildness of the first version – but in the second one you haven’t smoothed it over too much I don’t think, plus you’ve lightened it and added more colour (though still muted) which I like. There’s more structure in the foreground as well which I think is an improvement.
That’s such an interesting point about painting for an audience- I think we can all end up doing that, often unconsciously. I’m having a think about doing a video about that stage from the first pass to resolving the painting in a second session. I do think it’s good practice to be prepared to destroy a lot of the initial work, or at least not to end up just tweaking it – I find quite often that the painting will change quite a lot on the second session, which I think is a good thing. I like that sense of not knowing where the painting will go and being surprised by the final result! Of course occasionally I feel the painting has worked after the first attempt, but often it doesn’t.