oil on gessoed textured hardboard panel, 6" x 12"
This started as a plein air painting on a mostly overcast day, but I was none too happy with my effort, so I reworked it in the studio. It didn't help that the panel I had chosen was damaged in the upper left corner and was one of those textured surface panels made to emulate canvas that I don't care for, but it was the only 6" x 12" format I had brought with me. It seemed that no matter how much paint I applied, the texture still showed through. I prefer to work on actual canvas or a smooth hard surface, the simple reason being that I want the paint application to form the texture, not the prepared surface. Lesson learned, in the future I will either sand down the textured surface or gesso a layer or two over it so as to smooth out those ridges.
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