11x14
Every day is not a winner, as my mother used to say. I like some things about this painting--the grasses, the muddy shoreline and it's reflection in the shallow water. But there's a stiffness to it--too many hard edges?--that makes me call it a miss. worth trying again, wetter and looser next time!
Another couple of abandoned paintings below ... same problem as the one above, I think: despite a nice passage here and there, too ... too something!
7.5x11 each
I don’t know how you can paint white houses without the hard edges :). but I think maybe just a softening of the trees behind the house will make you like it more? I don’t find it too hard-edged all over but I do see what you mean = doesn’t have a flow of some of your other beachy paintings. And as for the figures, well, that’s a whole ‘nother subject, so I can’t tell you one way or another. Wish we all could do them loose and free like Charles Reid did!
ReplyDeleteI love all of them. You are too hard on yourself. This was definitely a good day, but there's the inner critic Danny Gregory talks about in this books. There is some external standard, and I don't get it. You are so good!
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