Sometimes a painting just doesn't work. The lower painting is what resulted when I took a piece of newspaper and pressed it onto the bad, wet painting. The image is what remained after the newspaper was pulled off. I am liking it better already!I wish I had taken a photo before but I was aggravated at myself and didn't even think about it. It had been a plein air sea grape tree.
Then I put the image into photoshop and started to play with the composition and photoshop filters. The offending image was too centered with two even tree trunks so I added the trunk to the right and came up with the top image. I'll try and translate something like that into paint on the original board in the next day or so.
Its 8 x 10 oil, or the original one is anyhow! The new one only exists in the computer at the moment. Click on them to make them bigger, the texture on both is interesting.
Alla prima plein air. I was at Edenlawn plantation again today, it was beautiful out. This is the view down one of the sandy roads. Its 12 x 16 oil mostly knife, a little bit of brush work in the swiggly trees.
