As we rush towards the end of the year and the start of another I've been trying to concentrate more and more on my art and find a way to make it a more sustainable part of my life. I almost have to start getting some kind of return on all the time that I spend painting and researching and thinking about painting. It's time to get serious or move on.
Unicoi Lake Trail
Still working on the 100 plein air paintings goal— finished 66 so far. This last weekend I was up at Unicoi Park all day on Saturday and did three painting of the lake, one ended up getting damaged so I need to do some retouching, I set up on the dock at the end of the lake for a different view than last time I painted here. It was cloudy but not raining and I like a gray day—makes it easier to catch the scene without the sun changing so quickly. I used a composition that I've used before and appears to work well, I split the image in two with both sections being almost equally weighted but the center of interest falls to the left side. This view is of the small visitor center in the campgrounds and a path that winds around from left to right. Quite a few people stopped by while I was there for close to eight hours.
Abstract in Alizarin
The second painting is from the same dock and has a very strange feel to it —on one side I have the walkway in perspective this leads to the path which heads off the the left. The odd thing here is the mix of this very 3-D walkway and the path which turns into a almost 2-D pattern of color and shape. At the time I thought it was very interesting, especially the color but this may be too much to get working on a 9x12 canvas.
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