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| "Flow" 9x12 inch oil painting on canvas board |
I’ll make this short and sweet tonight.
After a long absence from the studio I managed to fit in some time at the easel today on an oil painting I started back in April.
It took a bit of creative deliberation to revisit my original intent with this painting and to decide what to do with the background. I briefly toyed with the idea of a snow scene but gave that up since I wanted to keep with an analogous color scheme where the horse and background would blend well.
I also decided to switch gears on painting method and put down a gray value underpainting on top of the warm yellows. Today I did the background and will let that dry before proceeding to the horse. But, I kind of like it this way, too. The horse looks like he's made out of gold.
Tomorrow, time permitting, I’ll do a background change on another painting, and after that I have plans to do some pastel color studies to help with creating the coat on a lamb painting. I want to work lots of nice pastel colors into the wool.
It’s been a long dry spell in the creative department, but I’m finally breaking free of all those chains that have been holding me back. Let the creative juices Flow!
