My 1st attempt at Venice commission was remarkably OFF! Clinking back and forth on my blog images this morning it's even more glaring how off target I really was!......I know a credible second version is within my ability as a painter. It's in my nature to dig in when confronted with something I know I can control the out come of.....like this!
Regrouping, I spent the day stretching canvas and ended with some time left to paint this little 20x20 Sun painting below. It's a view of the Belle Isle Quarry in the middle of the James River. This is a typical sunset there and very much like a sunrise I see from my studio windows overlooking an old farmers field. Back in 2009, I did a 15-Minute Sunrise series of 8x10 En Plein Air paintings. It was perhaps one of the best learning curves I ever experienced while painting.....of course morning fog always played a large part in my reason to do it in the first place.....in combination with the sun, very impressive stuff! My view is not that exciting so I drop in different views like below. Turned out to be a good move because now I can apply the sun and the experience to any subject I choose to paint. If you were to review my painting history as I did last night, one could say it became the foundation of what I paint today.
LITTLE TIME TO PAINT
890 Quarry Sun 20X20 oil on linen (2-18-14)
Today, I go in for cataract surgery on my left eye; an annoying problem for a daily painter as I am. It's not a colour thing so much as a smear on my eye that can't be corrected with glasses anymore. Something I didn't know, they also put in a corrective lens; so perhaps tomorrow I'll see better and without glasses! How cool would that be:=)
Later....
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