Landscape Painting Failed

This landscape painting failed. Not going to say much about it other than postulate why it was such a failure.

So, why did this painting fail. Number 1 is the bad drawing with the pagoda on the left. That was just really bad on my part, I know I can do better. Second, the whole bottom right of the scene is nothing but a mass of random fluff. I have a ton of trouble painting areas like this without them looking like a mess.

Lastly the values seem to be off everywhere also. I think it would have been better if I would have focused in on one thing and went from there, but I was all over the place with this painting and I didn’t get near enough correct.

The Painting

The Location

I took two photos of the location since the light was changing so quickly.

My hierarchy of painting importance

Drawing
Value
Edges
Composition
Color

Session Details

Session: 57
Work: 42
Width: 10
Height: 8
Medium: Oil
Art Time: 1 hrs

Landscape, Oil

Chris Beaven

I'm an artist on a mission to do at least 30 minutes of art every single day for the rest of my life and track that progress on my website for all to see. I'm past the 10 year mark and I'm still going strong. Now it's time to give back and help other artists create a life long habit of creating.