New Snow in Lansworth Again

Well, here is the result of my experiment of painting the same picture two days in a row, a test of whether or not it would pay for me to actually know what I've set out to paint. On the whole, a marginal improvement, at best. I think not knowing what the hell I'm doing works for me... 

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New Snow in Lansworth revised

Here's the tinkered with version of yesterday's painting with minor changes. I'm half tempted just to paint a second version of this painting just to see what a difference it would make if I knew what I was doing right from the beginning.

New Snow in Lansworth

I've set myself a modest quota of two paintings, and I'd only did one this week, so this is a Saturday afternoon quota painting... and I don't have to keep it. I was pretty rushed at the end, so I might tinker with this tomorrow and see what I feel like then, since I really need to take a good photograph of it anyways...

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Winter Afternoon, Lansworth

I'm not unaware that lots of people like bright colors. However, I've always liked the understated, and these are all about me. Never the less, today I set out to paint a more colorful painting than I normally do. This is about as colorful as I gets... And as I hinted in the last post, this is painted over that Munsforest Road painting...

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By the way, when I first posted this painting, it was the below painting. But by the time I'd made my cup of tea, I decided that something along the lines of the above version would be an improvement, so this version is now just an image of what it once was.

Snowy Day, Munsforest Road

I was hoping to get the loose, slapdash feel of Boathouse on a Canal with this piece, but I don't think it's quite there. Yet. We'll see if I decide to give it another try.

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Wet Day in Cavleigh Crescent

An hour or two's work this afternoon. Nothing new here.

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Morning Along Orchard Road

Well, at least it is something, and that's progress of sorts. Yesterday I looked in on Sheila Vaughn's web site (http://artat.blogspot.com/) an artist's who work I admire, and noticed a couple of foggy paintings that I liked. I decided what I needed to paint some foggy day paintings myself, since my style is so vague anyways.  I'd been  working on and off on this piece for the last several days getting nowhere, so today I softened it up and painted it misty, if not exactly foggy. In the original version the background trees had been very dark pines and the highlights in yellow as if at sunset.  The simple composition I just kept pretty much the same, though it has little to recommend it.

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Upland Road in Winter 2 Revised again

Well, here we are again, a few more skies later. With nothing much to paint, I can just play around with this piece just to see what can be done.

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Upland Road in Winter 2 Revised

I wanted something different than a repeat of the first Upland Road in Winter painting, so this overcast revision is a bit of an improvement in that respect. It is, however, gloomy and lonely, but well, that's winter...

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Upland Road in Winter 2

I have a feeling this piece will not last, at least in it's current form. There is just nothing much to it. I'm at low ebb creatively at this time of year, I find, and haven't a clue as to what to paint that might be a little new for me.  This piece is just an exercise in painting, and fulfilling my modest quota of two paintings a week.

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Boathouse on a Canal, Willowsea

I think I'm just being artsy here. It's taken me a while to get back to painting and I've nothing in mind to paint...

12x16" 30x40cm acrylic on hardboard