Day Twenty Three - An Experiment

Yesterday's painting lacked graphic punch, so this attempt is to use simple forms and strong contrast to create a landscape.

As the paints were mixed even though they looked right on the palette, they were  too dark for the painting and had to be remixed.   This happened with every color but one.  Usually the paints I mix are too light,  don't understand the difference today.  Some of the original background darks needed to be further grayed once the painting surface was totally covered. The background greens need further graying as well, but time has run out.

This was a good color study for me, not only did I see how much the adjacencies matter, but the amount of the color already on the painting influencing the next color to be placed.

It could use further simplification, it would be interesting to see how far that could be pushed.

Poster Landscape
6 x 6 oil on gessoed paper

Tomorrow it's off to the medical appointments once more, so no painting. Be back on Saturday.