BUT - Change is Uncomfortable

Change is good.

 (right)

I paint a lot,

so I have a lot of paintings tucked away.

Some I like,

others not so much.

I've been working on skies and I didn't really care if I produced a sellable piece or not.

I am determined to improve painting skies.

I have always loved beautiful cloud formations and I haven't made the progress in painting them I wanted.

I looked through some old canvases I put aside to possibly redo, "someday" and today was that day

for one of them.

 There are things about this painting I love,

and some things I don't love, 

or even like.

This is one of my oldest paintings and I'm more than a little embarrassed to be showing it to you.

I love the left side of the painting,

but the right side and especially that tree is awful.

But I love that light on the lake and the grasses in the foreground are good.  

But the sky is very plain and I want to work on skies,

so this painting is my work space for the day.

I'm not going to show you all the steps, 

but here is where I was at the end of the session.

I know!

It's completely different.

I wasn't too sure in the beginning.

I thought for a while I was just going to have to gesso the whole thing over and start from scratch.

But,

my goal was to work on creating a dramatic sky,

so I pressed on.

 I learned a lot along the way.

But,

(there's that word again),

I wasn't happy with the tree on the right (again).

Before I added any leaves, 

I really liked it

but,

I wanted just a few leaves, as if they'd all fallen.

But,

I went a few leaves too many as you can see,

but

I wasn't sure how to fix it.

So, I walked away.

It came to me, what to do,

so this morning I went to the studio and 

put my plan into action.

So I fixed the tree on the right,

and put a little more highlight on the rocks rimming the lake.

Following my last post about learning anywhere,

I repeat, you can learn anywhere,

BUT,

you have to actually get in the studio

and paint,

observe,

think,

see,

experiment,

REPEAT!

Have a great day. 

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