Sunday, April 14, 2013

Cattails

Another attempt at a landscape using a photo reference.  This one is sort of "playful" I think.  The tangle of cattails is the main focal point, but they seemed to feel best when I kept them to a loose abstraction of shapes. 
It is much more of a struggle for me painting from photos than it is from life.  I feel that I want to become more accomplished at it though.  Sometimes it is so much more practical than trying to paint from life.  It is good to be able to do both I think.  So I will continue to practice. 
 I'm waiting for some Spring flowers and then I will do another still life....will Spring EVER get here??
Cattails     16x20  oc

3 comments:

  1. This is so very nice. Beautiful in fact

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  2. thank you Kathie and Angela...I appreciate it very much. Trying to readjust to thinking landscape instead of still life and it can be a struggle! :)

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