The Next Sketch Is
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PaintBoss
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You are delightfully creative Arty. You remind me to explore more places /ideas than just trying to confidently paint a scene - as is. That is another role for an artist.
All right, here’s a landscape that has gone wrong. And it’s a shame because it was getting close to the end with this painting. I bought a Winsor & Newton hot press pad of watercolour paper. It favouredfine details, not so many washes. That was OK by me because I don’t play around in the washes except to lay down the sky or an ocean. Anyways, this is a scene in TULUM Mexico when we went back in 1997 and I was just touching up a little area in the sky, hardly hit it with any paint it all, and I noticed there was a flaw in the paper and it distracted from the painting. So I tried to do a little more to just try to cover it up and the paper just lifted up -between the different layers. A hole started opening up and I was a little surprised. I let it dry and it was a mess. Then I tried to save it with thicker acrylic paint that I was going to blend in and it just never worked. So I had to abandon the painting. I have thought of cutting out part of the painting and somehow applying it on top of another painting that I would do with the sea and the sky. A little bit like one of those children’s books you open up and there’s layers. Because I do like the little bit of area that I painted in detail. The rocks, the building, the beach. Maybe I’ll save it yet. it might be cool to do a 3-D look if I put it in a 3d shadowbox. You know that might be a fun challenge to put on the forum. We all have to take a piece of art that we like, but for some reason, it hasn’t worked, and resolve it in a new way.
Next, any incomplete work that you like, but could not finish for some reason. Or put another way, art that went wrong!
All right, here’s a landscape that has gone wrong. And it’s a shame because it was getting close to the end with this painting. I bought a Winsor & Newton hot press pad of watercolour paper. It favouredfine details, not so many washes. That was OK by me because I don’t play around in the washes except to lay down the sky or an ocean. Anyways, this is a scene in TULUM Mexico when we went back in 1997 and I was just touching up a little area in the sky, hardly hit it with any paint it all, and I noticed there was a flaw in the paper and it distracted from the painting. So I tried to do a little more to just try to cover it up and the paper just lifted up -between the different layers. A hole started opening up and I was a little surprised. I let it dry and it was a mess. Then I tried to save it with thicker acrylic paint that I was going to blend in and it just never worked. So I had to abandon the painting. I have thought of cutting out part of the painting and somehow applying it on top of another painting that I would do with the sea and the sky. A little bit like one of those children’s books you open up and there’s layers. Because I do like the little bit of area that I painted in detail. The rocks, the building, the beach. Maybe I’ll save it yet. it might be cool to do a 3-D look if I put it in a 3d shadowbox. You know that might be a fun challenge to put on the forum. We all have to take a piece of art that we like, but for some reason, it hasn’t worked, and resolve it in a new way.
Next, any incomplete work that you like, but could not finish for some reason. Or put another way, art that went wrong!
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Thank you, Christine, for your wonderful words. I do hope my work can inspire others to use their wildest imaginations! Mine is pretty wild at times. 
This is mighty old. I always meant to finish it, but I don't even know where to look for it!
Next: one you painted over or changed (post the before pic, not after you changed it).
This is mighty old. I always meant to finish it, but I don't even know where to look for it!
Next: one you painted over or changed (post the before pic, not after you changed it).
PaintBoss
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I sure hope you find that one to finish it. It's got really good whimsical energy.
Now this is the journey of experimentation with one canvas, and it's not the final painting. I just kept playing around and I would live with it for a while and then decide to do something else. Regrets? Maybe. I wish I developed the first painting more. I get so bored with trees you have no idea! It was very woody cliffs /ravine with mossy green. In my reference photo, there is a small person standing in the middle at the bottom.
What a good idea Arty!
Next, more of the same, please. I'm quite curious what you all have been up to. With your canvases.
And this next one was underneath that abstract that I posted a few post back…
Now this is the journey of experimentation with one canvas, and it's not the final painting. I just kept playing around and I would live with it for a while and then decide to do something else. Regrets? Maybe. I wish I developed the first painting more. I get so bored with trees you have no idea! It was very woody cliffs /ravine with mossy green. In my reference photo, there is a small person standing in the middle at the bottom.
What a good idea Arty!
Next, more of the same, please. I'm quite curious what you all have been up to. With your canvases.
And this next one was underneath that abstract that I posted a few post back…
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Artyczar
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I really love the first and last ones. Very ethereal and beautiful. Dynamic, too.
