Showing posts with label painting challenge. Show all posts
Showing posts with label painting challenge. Show all posts

Monday, January 22, 2018

If at first you don't succeed

"If at first you don't succeed, try, try again."

I joined a painting challenge.  It was to paint a painting in 20 minutes for 5 days.  First of all, I am finding this scene difficult to begin with.  I've not painted too many scenes with lots of green grass so I am struggling to find the right greens.  Then I'm trying to give the illusion of the path traveling down a hill.  I've been trying to incorporate some of the tips from John Carlson's book Landscape painting, such as warm colors in the foreground and cooler colors in the distance.  I may try this one again and again until I get something I sort of like.  I do see some improvements from the first one.

Daily Painting:  Day 15:

Same scene as yesterday
5x7 Quick Study
Same scene as above - first time painting it
5x7 Quick Study

Okay, so I forget what day I'm on as it seems I can't quite manage a painting every single day - especially when it is in oil as the...