Daily Painting in progress

Almost done with this dreamscape that appeared in my sleep last night. It was just a flash of a painting that looked like trees in the middle of a forest fire. A powerful image in my mind, and I can't quite get it on paper.
A nice little exercise nonetheless.

Demise of the Yellow Duck

The close to final painting.  I fiddled around with this abstract for awhile because the large yellow blob in the middle was bothering me.  in some ways I think it could have been left as it was.

The first post.  The image I had in mind when I started this abstract was a large yellow mass in the middle of the page, but something about it didn't feel right. I kept seeing this cartoon-ish duck in flight.  That bothered me enough that I went on to change it.

The first thing I want to point out is that the two photographs taken of this painting are not of the same value.  The first photo was auto-corrected and the colors really jumped out.  I didn't want to misrepresent the real painting because while the colors are vibrant, they aren't that bright.  So I tried to make the finished

Revisiting Yupo

Lutz Tavern  Watercolor on Yupo: the painting as it looks now...to see what it looked like before I tinkered with it, see the link mentioned below.  Hindsight is that the original was actually fine if not better in some ways.

May of 2012 the Lutz Tavern on Yupo original post    I found an artist who has been very successful using Yupo for his Watercolors.  This piqued my interest once again in using this water resistant paper for a water based medium.  The upside to using Yupo is it's resiliency.  You can lift paint with absolute ease, in fact all the

Un Gwen Elle

It might make no sense for me to explain why I titled this painting Un Gwen Elle and I don't want to inject specific visual suggestions, so I will just say two things in general about this painting.  I accidentally snapped a photo of something , I 'm not sure what, on or near my PC , while uploading pictures to my blog the other day.  The image was interesting enough that I decided to paint it.  The image in the photo was mostly yellow,  but  I wanted to convey subtle color changes.  About halfway through it began to transform into images from my subconscious, and took on a life of its own. So this is where it pretty much came to rest.

"Final" Abstract Landscape.

Final version of the Abstract Landscape. Although clearly it is not abstract, It started as an abstract and since I didn't use a reference photo for this painting, that, in my mind  qualified it as "abstract'.

In this detail, you can see how I allowed the paint to pool to form the shapes by putting color in, then pulling them out with fresh water.  There are times when I will add paint to these pools to create a shadow or highlight.

This is my final posting of the abstract landscape that I began last week.  If you want to see the total process that went into making this painting, you can refer to the post titled "UPDATE: Abstract Landscape".  This project inspired me to do more like this.  I found it frees the hand and good things come from this somewhat free form of painting.