Variations on a scene

I have taken my own advice for a change and now have three different sky paintings in progress. I stopped at the "Van Gogh-ish" version of my previous post and then started two more good sized paintings on canvas and a small 8x10 on paper. (The photo of the finished 8x10 is in the post above this one called "More Paintings.")

I cut a parent sized piece of heavy paper from my stash into several 8x10 pieces and they didn't buckle when I gessoed them--yippee. So now I have several pieces gessoed and am going to do variations on a theme on each one.

I've also got a series of pears that I'm working on in pastel. And knowing me, at some point I'll probably start mixing the media, colored pencil, pastel, and ink all together on the same painting. That's the really fun part for me, experimenting to see what happens next.

Someone said that if you already know what's going to happen when you paint then why bother? ( I read so much that I can never keep track of who said what.) That's how I feel, even when it's not going well. Then I take a break, clean house or weed the yard or go for a walk and come back and try something different.

All the artists that I've talked to recently work on several pieces at the same time. I guess I had to experience overpainting one painting ad nauseum before I could make the connection and do it myself.

In all my many books on writing they say that writers write in order to discover what they have to say. I think that I paint and draw in order to discover what it is that I see. So off to put my painting glasses on.

Finished 8x10 Landscape