This painting has been very challenging. I’m working with multiple photos, combining them, and making stuff up, hoping for it to be believable. It is very large for me: 20×28? 24×30? Can’t remember. Huge.
Because this is not a commission, there is no deadline, no requests or requirements, no money waiting at the end to make me hustle my bustle, just a sense of wanting to make it as perfect as I can and take as long as it needs.
I’m reigning in my natural bent to finish, tapping into a small inner piece of perfectionism that I can occasionally call into service.
Here are photos taken on a single afternoon (a long one) of inching forward. You might have trouble seeing the incremental progress. If it is too boring, come back tomorrow. I’m sure I will think of something else to write about for you by then.
Finally, let’s rotate the painting so that the waning daylight will be on it instead of behind.
Shall I call it “Who Moved Sawtooth?”
A little more detail, the edges, a signature, and it will be finished.
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This is gorgeous, and how fun to see it develop over the course of an afternoon! I love the colors, and enjoyed watching the leaves gain definition.
Thank you, Suzanne, and welcome! I will enjoy looking at your blog and think you probably found me via Elisabeth.
I like it! And, (optical illusion), in the photo of it upside down, now it looks like there’s a rapids right before the water falls downward.
Thank you, Kris! I wouldn’t have noticed that optical illusion without you pointing it out. I am surprised by how much I like this painting, when I am normally drawn to blues and greens, and am sort of sick of Sawtooth.
I like this fall picture.. because it’s such a beautiful time of year. I like the “looseness” of the brook as well as the vibrant colors of fall. Green is nice- but this is splendid!
Thank you, Anne! It was both difficult and very enjoyable to paint. Challenging because there is so much that can’t be understood in landscape—messy textures that can’t be accurately portrayed. Enjoyable because I could do it any way I wanted, since there is no customer.