elegant

10 x 8, oil on gessoboard

Whether a shell or a Bach Prelude, some days are perfect for admiring what is elegant.

Paint-Scrape-Paint

Refuge
18 x 24
oil on hardboard

scraping off yellow ochre and some of the water

Although there was much that I liked about my first attempt at painting my refuge in oil, some of it went awry. I couldn't make the land masses read the way I wanted them to, as the bleached, dry grasses of winter. Yellow ochre became the opaque culprit for a flat look and I didn't like or intend.

The paint was thick and I was able to scrape it down. I applied M. Graham's Walnut Galkyd Oil to the entire painting and then repainted the areas I thought were weak. I like it's unapologetic boldness.

Now, back to the studio for more mixing practice.