When paintings go....bad?
Split Boulder
This is what happens when you are painting outdoors, and the nice dappled light you had disappears, and you are sitting uncomfortably with pine needles sticking in your butt. Well, is it really that bad? You tell me. I thought it was pretty off the mark, as I tried to do it in half an hour, in Maine, in the woods in back of a friend's house(on their property). Now that I have a Guerilla Paint Box(highly portable), this problem may be not a problem. Anyway, the composition of the boulder having long been split either by the tree that grew between it, or before, with the sun on it, grabbed me. But I didn't grab that lighting fast enough so it kind of all went to Hell. Looking at it on a screen it looks cooly abstract..a little Courbet looking? Ah, there will be another time with me and that scene...
This is what happens when you are painting outdoors, and the nice dappled light you had disappears, and you are sitting uncomfortably with pine needles sticking in your butt. Well, is it really that bad? You tell me. I thought it was pretty off the mark, as I tried to do it in half an hour, in Maine, in the woods in back of a friend's house(on their property). Now that I have a Guerilla Paint Box(highly portable), this problem may be not a problem. Anyway, the composition of the boulder having long been split either by the tree that grew between it, or before, with the sun on it, grabbed me. But I didn't grab that lighting fast enough so it kind of all went to Hell. Looking at it on a screen it looks cooly abstract..a little Courbet looking? Ah, there will be another time with me and that scene...posted by Bob Eggleton (Zillabob) | 2:21 PM
3 Comments:
Hey, I've seen stuff worse than this win prizes. It is a bit abstract but I could tell that it was a tree and 2 boulders. Cheers!
All I'm missing is depth for the tree, I can't see where it starts, but I really like the rock. It's the kind of thing I would try to capture with a camera (and fail horribly at).
Thanks Sahi, you're always a pleasant visitor! Yeah, it's kind of like I ran out of two important things-light and time! The light faded and all the nice dappling on the trunk of the tree went, and then it also got cold, and I found myself going beyond my alotted 30 minutes. Still, the boulder has merit in spots. Wasn't a complete disaster really. I'll do better.
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