Trees: I Don’t Like Painting This Way

I’ve started a painting like too many times to count and I’m realizing I don’t like it.

I don’t like doing general washes of color over the painting just to get a quick effect of the colors all over the place. It ends up looking super messy at this stage and then I also have to fix all the drawing mistakes that I make as I go. Plus I’ve basically obliterated my drawing that I spent a long time preparing.

So, next session I’m going to try and bring it back and start by working on small spaces at a time much like the oil painting I working on in tandem.

Trees: I Don't Like Painting This Way — Trees: I Don’t Like Painting This Way

Trees: I Don't Like Painting This Way, setup — Setup

Session Details

Session: 1861
Work: 1368
Width: 22
Height: 16
Medium: Gouache
Art Time: 0.5 hrs

From Photograph, Gouache, Landscape

Chris Beaven

I am an Artist and a programmer currently living in the amazing state of Washington. I have a passion for art, but I'm stubborn as hell with it. My day is complete only when I do some piece of art each day, no matter how small. "There was a dream that was Rome. You could only whisper it. Anything more than a whisper and it would vanish, it was so fragile."