Farm Road

I'm doing pretty well at trying to paint at least a little bit of something every day.

Today's painting is a simple rendition of a farm road, done in about an hour and a half, on an 11 by 14 inch canvas panel using about 6 or 7 colors of Charvin oil paints (not a standard primary or split-primary palette - just some "landscapey" colors).

Farm Road (oils, 11 by 14 canvas panel)

The point of this exercise was to choose a very limited number of colors to work with, and see what I could come up with. Having bought too many colors, it is good practice to try to paint something without using a whole host of colors. Owning all the colors is one thing, using too many of them in one painting is another...

All things considered, I like it a lot. And it was a good learning experience.