Here’s the latest on the beach painting I’ve been working on. Surfaces building nicely, and character of the paint surface is coming along…the values are working better.
There are a lot of places for the eye to fall, and it’s difficult to arrange the eye’s path given that complexity.
I still wish to build more complex, interesting surfaces. No reason I can’t, the subject lends itself to what I have in mind. It gets me thinking of William L. Picknell. Now, that man created painted surfaces like nobody else, like a pastry chef.
But, it’s getting hard to see this piece with a fresh eye, and to continue painting when you aren’t able to see the work afresh is almost as grave an error as waiting for inspiration. When you hold on too firmly to what you think your strengths are, they eventually end up spoiling the game.
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