Time to move on

Click any image to see an enlarged view.

It's time to move on. I've broken the dry spell and am inspired to go on to the next painting. This final edit is not what I had hoped for but learning to push values from the darkest darks to the lightest lights is good for me. The final painting is too green, but like I said, it's time to move on. After all, all three of the paintings have about 5 pounds of paint on each of them. Just teasing. :)

Gray Scale

Click any image to see an enlarged view.

corrected values

Click any image to see an enlarged view.

Corrected values... some correction on color

Plein Air Ocean studies

Click any image to see an enlarged view.

Slowly I'm being able to stand to paint. I've taken some old plein air paintings out from the storage room and have tried to finish them up and get them framed.

I am really rusty and feel the need to do some color work so I'm going to try to do that the next few days.

To see what I'm talking about, take a look at these in gray scale and then I'll post the color images next. The gray scale images look so much better in my opinion.