I've been trying something different this week—working on two paintings at the same time. While one dries, I work on the other. This is another "Road to Decatur" painting; besides being well suited to my panoramic paper, it has a peaceful and bucolic, mid-America feeling. It's nearly finished.
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| 6" x 18" |
And now for something completely different. Back to the "Destruction" series, this is a view of the devastation left in the wake of the Great Tree Massacre of June 23, 2022. As of now, it's the last one planned in the series, but who knows what could happen next?
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| 9" x 12" |
I'm not sure if I'm just not used to multitask-painting or if these two subjects are just too different in feeling, but I'm still testing this "two at the same time" approach.
I really like the pastoral scene. Paper is perfect for it. I often do some after a road trip. By the way, since it often takes so long for Yupo paintings to dry, I often paint one on regular paper at the same time. It helps me stay in the groove if I’m in one.
ReplyDeleteLove those midwestern landscapes. I remember seeing them all the time when I was riding the train between Chicago and Champaign. Especially those cold winter nights when the soil was bared and there would just be a couple rectangles of light in a far away and lonely farmhouse.
ReplyDeleteI like working on two at the same time. Usually I’m drawing one and painting another. It allows for drying time but keeps me from wandering off into social media hell…both paintings are lovely. I saw a painting this morning that was the long paper turned upright. It was all sky and foreground land with a few trees in the middle. I might try it.
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