This is the final painting. I’m very pleased with it and have had quite a bit of positive feedback on it. I like the changes of color in the ‘sky’, the final proportions of the trees, the angled line of the ground. Following this I painted several other paintings using the same colors and subject, though in all of those I’ve used the canvas as a landscape.
I also sat down with my sketchbook (for once!) and put down a lot of other potential compositions that could be part of a series. I even found myself doodling potential compositions when I was stuck in a boring meeting rather than my usual flowerpots, spirals, and triangles.
Then I started contemplating what it would look like if I painted the same scene but with blues, greys, and whites, as if by moonlight rather than sunshine. One painting leads to the next, and to the next… As it says in Art and Fear, don’t let “your current goal become your only goal. With individual artworks it means leaving some loose thread, some unresolved issue, to carry forward and explore in the next piece.”
