Midnight Impatiens

It was very hard to get a photograph of this painting, so this is as good as it gets. But I'm sure you get the idea: I think things would look better if I actually designed a design instead of just painting my impatiens from life. However, I'm not taking these paintings too seriously, though I'm thinking maybe an abstract painting along these lines might work...

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Impatiens(ly) abstracted

This is what happens when an impatient painter paints impatiens.  I have a yen to paint something different or at least differently, and I am fond of this four year old annual. (I'm also painting over some paintings that needed painting over...)

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Impatiens Patterns

In answer to yesterday's question: you paint over the dumb picture the next day. My impatiens in a pot is getting on to be four years old, (they over winter in the house) and I paint it every once and a while when I want to do something different but don't know what. This time I just painted the leaves and flowers and left the pot and background out.

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Meriwells Park

The question of the day: I've read that writers are advised to set aside a certain part of the day to write, and to write every day in that time, whether or not they feel up to the task or not. Does it apply to painters too?  I certainly did not feel inspired today, and this is what results...

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Soft Morning in Pangone

Another familiar scene, just something to paint until I can come up with something new.

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Silence

I think this will be the last one for a while on this theme.

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Summer, Softly Fading

I started this painting yesterday as a noon time painting, but it wasn't working, so I decided to go back to the margins of the day and dashed it off this morning. I've a recent painting, Near Twilight Above Weymouth hanging over the fireplace and I've come to really like that piece -- it's more subtle than the photo, and so I made this one a variation on that theme and subject, with a little of Longsands Island thrown in for good measure.


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A Forest Lane

Today's doodle -- just playing around with paint and ideas, but with nothing too defined in mind. I only keep these studies because I have like $.50 worth of materials invested in them.  I also -- for no good reason -- fiddled with yesterday's doodle as well.  Below:

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Fence Row in the Morning Mist

Just a doodle in paint. The seasons are beginning to change and it is usually foggy in the morning when I go out for my bike ride. In the mist the still green trees do not have a lot of color, mostly just shape, and this painting reflects that experience. 

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The Sea (Unseen) Beyond the Dunes

I've been working on this board for several days. The sky was always ok, nothing else seemed to work, so I decided to basically make it a sky painting, if only to make my two paintings a week production target...

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Longsands Around About Sunset

Today's variation on the current theme. Yesterday's scrapped off version of this scene had a higher horizon and a pool of water to reflect the sky in the foreground, which did not work.

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Along the Sandy Road

I haven't done a painting in this size for a bit and I'm getting tired of the one I have on the wall, so I painted this.  Nothing special, a variation on what I've been doing lately.  I also added a little water to yesterday's painting on the right: a minor addition not worth a re-posting.

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Overcast Morning, Longsands Island

Another of my rather understated studies of Longsands Island, this time on an overcast morning.

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Twilight Songs

Cries of the seagulls, the sigh of the wind in the long grasses, the hiss of the surf, a twilight song.

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Hill Crest at Sunset

Another of my abstract paintings pretending to be a landscape.

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The Long Promised Nude - slight rev.

I tried to fix faces in past efforts -- trying to make them more realistic or something -- only to loose the look I happened upon and liked.  In this case there is very little to the face -- it does not bear looking at for long -- but I like the impact it has, nevertheless. However, the nose bugged me, so I took my courage in hand and very slightly modified it knowing that  this time the paint was dry, I could wash the new paint off if things turned nasty. I kept my changes to a minimum, so the face still does not bear looking at it for long -- but the nose is a little better and bugs me less.

The Long Promised Nude

Every artist is required to paint 1) a self portrait, and 2) a nude.  (Plus a masterpiece, but that is determined by the secret committee.) These requirements are not waived even if you're a landscape painter.  So here's my long promised nude. Don't blame me, I'm a landscape painter. My self portrait can be found earlier in the blog -- mid-winterish.  I hope the secret Ancient Order of Painters’ Lodge is happy...

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Above Hamlet Cove (revised)

As promised, the revised version. A little too literal for me, but oh well, enough is enough.

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Above Hamlet Cove

I'm not sure about this one -- I usually paint in only two planes -- a foreground shape against a background more or less of light.  In this case we have the headlands in the middle distance that I'm not sold on yet.  I also have to think about the sky. I usually avoid blue skies as much as possible as they seem to darken a picture  instead of providing the light, so I may lighten up the sky a bit as well... Tomorrow.

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Upper Shore Road At Dusk (revised)

Friday's painting revised, eliminating a lot of the blue shadows and revising the treeline as well a the sky a bit.  An improvement, but still not exactly what I was going for, but I don't believe I can get there from here...

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Upper Shore Road At Dusk

I wanted this painting to say "summer". Don't think I quite made it.

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Over the Hill

Just a quick study playing around with the flat dark trees behind the hill.

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Quiet Water

This morning's piece, improvised on an idea that came to me while staring at the blank board.

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Sandy Road, Around Sunset

The moon and sunset sky in the oak tree behind my house was the inspiration for this painting -- the tree on the right is the oak tree, more or less. The rest of the scene is just made up.

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Near Twilight, Above Weymouth

These days I paint just to try this or that out. In this case, I painted a fairly large painting with a much smaller brush that I normally use and I was working on painting the sky in some sort of interesting way. I don't think the brush size made much of a difference one way or the other and it is a hard painting to photograph and adjust to make the sky look like it is, but you get the general idea.

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The Denboro Road

Today's piece's claim to fame is that I used a much smaller brush than usual for me to paint. (8mm vs 12mm for yesterdays or 26mm for many of my more recent work)  I intended to paint something rather different, but I was having so much fun painting the sky that I had to change my plans and paint a scene that included a lot of sky.

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Trees and Pond Study

I thought I'd do something a little different today. (There are about 745,003 different paintings like this, so different in the sense that I haven't been doing them...)This study is based on a scene along the bike trail I frequent these days. It is not the actual scene, I just have included the features of the scene. I'm not wildly crazy about how it came out: I think to do things like this justice, I would have to include a lot more detail than I care to bother with.

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Misty Morning, Lansworth (rev)

Played around with yesterday's work, added my usual delivery van/milk truck and a couple of people -- no doubt the housewife ordering an extra pint of cream...

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Misty Morning, Lansworth

I was bored today, Independence Day is not celebrated locally, so I painted.  This ain't much of a painting, and may well not last, but it's the Day's Work.

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It Also Rains in Pangone

As I mentioned in the last posting, I was not too happy with the painting, so I painted this one over it. A little simpler in composition and I think a bit better.

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