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18x24" 45x60cm acrylic on hardboard

I had a slightly different version of the top of this painting sitting on my work table for the better part of a week with the bottom part unpainted. I was planning on painting a foggy Embankment type scene, or possibly a street scene, but every time I stopped to look at it, I couldn't quite make my ideas work in my mind. Last night I decided I'd best just abandon those ideas and see what I could make of it. I repainted the top, mostly following the tree pattern I'd done earlier, but with more paint and warmer colors this time, and improvised the bottom half as I went along using richer, warmer colors as well. The house was an afterthought, otherwise it would've been too plain. I can do something like this in less than 2 1/2 hours because everything in "plug & play", i.e. every part of this painting is something I've done before, just re-imagined. The fun is flying by the seat of my pants, trying to pull something off, without knowing what -- the picture, as it evolves, leads me on. The result may be nothing to write home about, but I've made something, anyway, out of nothing. I've created something. Which is what this is all about.

Description
18x24" 45x60cm acrylic on hardboard

I had a slightly different version of the top of this painting sitting on my work table for the better part of a week with the bottom part unpainted. I was planning on painting a foggy Embankment type scene, or possibly a street scene, but every time I stopped to look at it, I couldn't quite make my ideas work in my mind. Last night I decided I'd best just abandon those ideas and see what I could make of it. I repainted the top, mostly following the tree pattern I'd done earlier, but with more paint and warmer colors this time, and improvised the bottom half as I went along using richer, warmer colors as well. The house was an afterthought, otherwise it would've been too plain. I can do something like this in less than 2 1/2 hours because everything in "plug & play", i.e. every part of this painting is something I've done before, just re-imagined. The fun is flying by the seat of my pants, trying to pull something off, without knowing what -- the picture, as it evolves, leads me on. The result may be nothing to write home about, but I've made something, anyway, out of nothing. I've created something. Which is what this is all about.