Bauer Park, 9x12, oil on canvas
Sunday was the second day of the Charles Sovek workshop I attended, and the weather was uncooperative for plein air painting once again! However we had a challenging and successsful day of studio work. Our assignment was to choose one of our own paintings that was "not so successful" and explore a number of different possibilities for reconstructing it, focusing on rearranging elements in the composition, changing the lighting and exploring both a warm and cool color scheme for the new piece. Workshops are a wonderful opportunity to explore new creative options and try things you might not normally think of doing and I can say that I experienced both these things on Sunday!! The original painting is one of my "not so successful" pieces, painted in oil on location sometime last fall. The two small pieces show a rearranged composition, somewhat different lighting and a warm and cool version of the piece. The final piece I've posted is a larger version of the "cool" study. Painting is a most fascinating pursuit because you're always learning, growing, changing and refining your artistic vision. The possibilities are endless, as this exercise shows, and a lifetime is not nearly long enough to explore every avenue of possibility.
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