Friday, May 01, 2026

morning painting

                           10x14
Now that it's getting warmer, and I'm getting up earlier, I'm going to try to spend 30+ minutes painting every morning.
This morning I painted along with a session of Birgit O'Connor's plein air class.
She used Winsor blue red shade for the sky and water. I think the one I have is blue shade, but I rarely, if ever, use it ... I always thought it was too intense. But I kinda like it!

And below: yesterday's mess. My first attempt, top, with the reflection of the far shore scraped out--the paper was to wet when I started adding foliage, and it was a swampy mess.
And the start of a second attempt. Letting it dry!
I'm never happy with my foliage shapes! Wish I could figure it out.
Painted this along with a Paul George video on YouTube

2 comments:

Barbara Muir said...

I so love your work, and your leaves. Sometimes our self criticism is hard. You're an amazing and inspiring artist always.

Anonymous said...

Thank you, Barbara. You are so right about the self-criticism!🙂