Two National Park Landscapes
Yosemite - 14" x 11" - Acrylic, watercolor pencil and gesso on Masonite - $300
After all these abstract paintings I have been doing, I figured it was time to do a few landscapes. I did one of Yosemite and Yellowstone. Yosemite turned out a little dark. I didn’t put enought light/dark contrast in it, but I don’t have time to go back and change anything now.
Yellowstone turned out really well, I think. When I saw the photo, I knew right away how I would abstract it out and was able to do it pretty much like I envisioned it.
Yellowstone - 14" x 11" - Acrylic, watercolor pencil and gesso on Masonite - $300
You know, that really is the key. I see a lot of my paintings in my mind’s eye, and they are perfect. Then my brain gets in the way and tells me how it should look and it turns out wrong.
Sometimes, I have to close my eyes and listen to what my inner sense is telling me and then almost with my eyes closed, I make it happen. Those are the ones that turn out really well if I can just get my thoughts quiet enought that I can really follow my vision.
“You know, that really is the key. I see a lot of my paintings in my mind’s eye, and they are perfect. Then my brain gets in the way and tells me how it should look and it turns out wrong.
Sometimes, I have to close my eyes and listen to what my inner sense is telling me and then almost with my eyes closed, I make it happen. Those are the ones that turn out really well if I can just get my thoughts quiet enought that I can really follow my vision.”
THIS IS SUPER ENCOURAGING TO ME RIGHT ABOUT NOW. I am on #12 and feeling a little bogged down by my thinking. Thanks for this.