Cattails 2

Cattails 2, oil on canvas, 10x20"

Another day of fun, loose and colorful painting. AND it's on canvas :-)  AND it's bigger :-) :-). Tell me what you think....I think I am onto a new series.

Industrial Wasteland

Industrial Wasteland, Oil on Canvas, 10x20 inches

All towns have scenes like this.  Desolate, eery, isolated areas that give off a vibe of wanting to be far, far away.  Except to me and my son who love to go traipsing down railroad tracks in industrial areas to see how much rust we can photograph.  I loved how the silos almost disappeared into the grey sky. The lone train seemed to be without purpose. The empty tracks continued on the horizon visually through the power lines. I worked on a long canvas to change up the feel, which in turn, slowed me down allowing me to work in-depth with the details this painting needed.

A River Runs Through It

A River Runs Through It, Oil on Canvas, 10"x20"

I decided a few weeks ago to incrementally work on a "bigger" canvas, while simultaneously continuing my daily painting in smaller scale;  and 10x20 is huge to me right now!  This painting, of the waterfront park in Louisville, was painted from a photo taken on a cold, bare day.  I do believe I bestowed much more color and life onto the scene than existed on this particular New Year's Day.  It was much more difficult to paint this scale again than I expected.  I became overly conscientious of scale and I tightened back up with the brush, painting very slowly and in layers. This just tells me to keep working both big and little, as there is value as a painter in both. And...despite not feeling completely satisfied with it, I decided to post it.