The first painting is an 8x10 oil study called, fittingly, "Durfee Road Study". The morning I painted it I thought I had done a great job - until I got it home! Then I realized the colors were too dull and the overall contrast too weak. So I worked on it at home, then went back to the same location a few days later. Unfortunately that day was much hazier than the first, so rather than work on the same painting I started the second one posted here - a 10x12 oil called "Durfee Road Summer". This one also required re-working at home. Unfortunately, the jpegs of both paintings aren't very good, and I almost didn't post them because of this. If I get a chance to take better pictures I will post them...but the first painting sold and the second is currently in the Legacy show.
I used to be very reluctant to work on plein air paintings at home, but lately I've realized that many of these studies could be greatly improved - oftentimes the painting has a good structure but is lacking color or contrast, mainly because the bright light outdoors fools me into thinking the colors are so bright on site. Maybe someday I'll be able to consistently account for this when painting outdoors, but I'm not there yet!
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They are beautiful as both have a good sense of depth.
I'm glad to see you are posting more often. I hope you are having better weather than we are having here in Syracuse.
Thanks Adriana. The weather hasn't been too kind lately. But I've been trying to get out between the raindrops. Fall colors come and go so quickly...
nice post. I would love to follow you on twitter.
Anonymous, I don't "do" twitter, but you can find me on facebook. Thanks for stopping by!
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