Tonight's painting is a 9 by 12 canvas panel loosely replicating a work of Benjamin Haughton. The first pass at this was typical of what I have been doing recently. I paint the sky first, and it is fairly easy to do a semi-realistic sky. Then I move on to the foreground of the painting, which I want to be in a more impressionistic style. As a result, I have been finding that most of my recent paintings have had an inherent clash of styles within the work. This was no different. Impressionistic foreground. Realistic sky.
So I went back and repainted the sky in a more impressionistic style.
It might not be great, but at least when I was finished, the work looked consistent within itself.
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| Overlooking the Water |
Another lesson learned.
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