acrylic on canvas, 16" x 20"
This is a studio painting done from a photo I had taken from the road. Update: I reworked the sky today, warming and lightening it according to the needs of the painting, rather than my misbegotten loyalty to the photograph I was working from. I sometimes forget to remind myself where my loyalty should be: with the painting and not the photo. I've found that, when using a reference photo for a painting, I have to remind myself to paint what I know (or remember) and not what I see. When painting from life, it's just the opposite: to paint what I see and not what I know. Both disciplines seem to complement each other, like stretching opposing muscles. That's why I like to bounce back and forth between the two.
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