For about 6 months now I have been in a painting funk. I started this blog as a way of keeping myself accountable to post new paintings and talk about problems and overcoming my horrible studio habits!
So I took a series of photos a few months ago at a rural containment pond. It cost me dearly in mosquito bites, and a car that smelled like roadkill skunk for weeks. I have been doing a few thumbnails and sketches, but today I finished a small 5x11 inch watercolor.
I notice that it still seems overworked, dry, and overly textured; all things I am trying to adjust in my work. I tell my watercolor students all the time "let the paint and water flow and do the work." I need to follow my own advice! I do however think that the foreground/background relationship is nice.
I used a slightly longer format, more than a double square(11x5) I really like that extra bit of "landscape"ish longness. I think that I will do a few more watercolors and then start an oil.
