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Pear on Blue Plate

Pear in Oil

Oil on canvas panel, 8×6″
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After feeling like I’d taken one big step forward with my painting on Saturday, in Sunday’s painting class I felt like I’d taken two giant steps backwards. I wasn’t inspired by the view of dry, grayish rolling hills and just kept putting paint down, deciding it was all wrong, and scraping it off. I guess I was just tired after painting day and night on Saturday and also there were some new concepts that needed to sink in.

I was determined to do a better job today and wanted to focus on the guidance I received from my teacher on Sunday: avoiding muddy colors by putting strokes down and leaving them, focusing on color temperature and using colorful grays. I painted the pear about three or four times this evening, getting it almost done and then messing it up one way or another, scraping off all the paint, and starting over.

As it got closer to bedtime I got even more determined to put strokes down and leave them. It worked and I’m happy with the results.

8 replies on “Pear on Blue Plate”

Bravo!

This is a huge step for you. I like that you managed to keep the cool and warm areas from contaminating each other.

Please bring this on Sunday…there are a few minor things I want to point out.

Keep painting the work is paying off.

BTW…the painting in the previous post is good also. Your really starting to see thing.

I think a change of location will do you good Sunday…

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I agree with Karen..the complimenrary colours work really well. I love the clean, fresh look of this painting. I have done that many more times than I would like to admit…scraping off and restarting, scraping off and restarting! After a while you sort of build up a fear for scraping and restarting and then you start leaving those first strokes as they are and it is then that things start to work…
I also left a message on your previous post…a long one and I was continually thrown off, so I’m not sure whether it was pubilhed or not…I’ll wait a while or maybe send you an email.
Ronell

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