Thé next stage of this painting. It took a while to find space to return to right brain, a walk by the river and some music helped, but I always find it quite difficult to remember where a painting was headed once the first stage ends and the second go begins. Anyway, this is where this one wandered off to – finding more colour in my local landscape; playing with textures and liquidity of paint, and how to apply the paint – fingers, brush, kitchen paper, knife. I feel though that I lose the boldness & freshness in the return to a painting – does more practice help? I seem to return to painting this view – does it matter if we paint the same view over again. I see & feel something different every time I see it & try to paint it – is this what keeps us hooked to painting?
Thé next stage of this painting. It took a while to find space to return to right brain, a walk by the river and some music helped, but I always find it quite difficult to remember where a painting was headed once the first stage ends and the second go begins. Anyway, this is where this one wandered off to – finding more colour in my local landscape; playing with textures and liquidity of paint, and how to apply the paint – fingers, brush, kitchen paper, knife. I feel though that I lose the boldness & freshness in the return to a painting – does more practice help? I seem to return to painting this view – does it matter if we paint the same view over again. I see & feel something different every time I see it & try to paint it – is this what keeps us hooked to painting?
Louise Balaam - Monthly Landscape Painting
Lovely palette. Fresh and lively marks
it is lovely , sky works very well i think
Thank you so much Louise. Slowly I feel that Im allowing myself to be braver -with colour, marks & allowing the painting to wander off & find a more interesting path! I do enjoy revisiting the same places to find the different , each day is a real joy discovering new things in these familiar places.
So interesting to see the first and second stage of this painting Karen! I feel you’ve really improved it – richer colour and softer, more tactile handling which I think is working very well. I would say don’t worry about where the painting was headed, I like to allow it to develop and change in unexpected ways – I like your phrase about wandering off. And I think painting the same place is fine, it’s something which is meaningful to you and which you know well, and it will be different in different weathers, seasons and times of day, so plenty of scope.