my latest painting...

 

 

This is the latest painting I've been working on. I've posted both the painting that I'm doing and the picture I'm working from so you can see what I'm working on. This is actually one of the weakest parts of my repitiore so it's something I still working out. The next step once I get comfortable with landscape/plein aire painting is to start actually painting in the environment itself, using a photo only as record of place or visual cues I may be missing otherwise.

So far I like what I see. I just bought some paint today and it's really gotten me all fired up because it was EXACTLY what I needed to render the proper colors of this particular landscape (Hooker's green hue permanent). I figured maybe anyone looking might want to see a picture of the workup before it's done. There's still a long way to go on it, but it's now 1:50a and I'm getting sleepy... plus my back is starting to hurt. In case curiosity has engaged anyone reading this, I was listening/watching According to Jim while painting. This is a perfect thing to paint to since it's pretty mindless, drivel - more or less good background noise.

In other news, My team the FC Stragglers (soccer) are currently 1-0. We won last night in 4-3 victory over a team of Ukranians named "Battisti". This was an exciting beginning to my season until I found out that they may be the worst team in the league, in which case, we could be in some serious trouble for the rest of the season. We were really hoping they'd be more of a middle of the pack sort of team. Oh well, exercise is exercise there's nothing quite as nice as getting out there and mixing it up on the soccer pitch.