First, I finished up the painting I started yesterday in Kathie's class. I'm really pleased with it. It will be interesting to see what suggestions she gives me for improving it when I go to class next week. Here's my finished painting.
Then I decided to do some repairs and improvements to three other paintings. First I took the painting below of Radnor Lake. There were a few marks on the lake - probably from having the painting sitting around for so long. No telling how those marks got there. I painted over them, and then did some other improvements to the painting.
Then I took the painting below - one that I painted when I was in Gatlinburg back in October. When I showed the painting to my mother, she asked what that was in the lower left side of the painting. I had FOURTEEN rocks in the painting. When Mother asked her question, I realized that it looked totally unnatural. I had started painting rocks -because there WERE a lot of rocks - just not that many and only a couple large ones - but once I started adding rocks, I just kept going - and they kept getting bigger and bigger. So I painted over eleven of the rocks and left just three in the painting. I think it looks much better, and the rocks looks like rocks. However, I still don't like the way the rocks look. So I may work on it more tomorrow.
My next project was my second Radnor Lake painting. The rail along the left side of the trail was too perfect. So I put some plant growth over part of it to break up the line of the railing, and I worked on the trail a little, too. It's still not one of my favorite paintings, but I'm done with it.
Then, I decided it was time to varnish some paintings. I took about 9 paintings out the garage and varnished them. None of the ones above since they all have wet paint on them - but some of my others - some that I really like. So now I've varnished some paintings. I need to take a bunch of my paintings out of their frames and varnish them and re-frame them. That will be a project I work on over the next few days and weeks.
Overall, I had a really good day today. I love it when I get "lost" in painting - and that happened today. Several hours went by as I worked on the paintings above, and I totally lost track of time because I was so engrossed in what I was doing. I was listening to an audio book the other day and it mentioned how one get to "flow" when the rest of the world is nonexistent as we concentrate on our art or work or whatever. So today I was in my "art flow," and that's a good thing.
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