This landscape painter is in the middle of a larger painting (see more in previous post) and needed a change of pace. I was Googling around the old internet and stumbled upon some abstracted landscapes that sparked my interest. Well one thing lead to another and out popped two small abstracts based on the ocean and the other on the hills of the back country. While it sure was fun, it's not a direction I'm committed to.

There was, however, a third canvas that I played around with... and that's another story. I like what happened there and am now working to develop that direction. It's hard to describe in words and it's too soon to show anything here. Maybe it will work out and maybe not: sometimes you feel like a nut and sometimes you don't, as the candy commercial said;)

Been so long since this landscape painter posted to my blog here that I almost forgot how to do it;) Been sprucing up the house including a re-do on the guest bath and that's got me making way too many trips to Home Depot, or just The Depot as we've come to call it. If you've been through any kind of remodel you know how it goes and all the seemingly endless decisions that must be made... and the tile guy for sure does not want to hear me say. "I don't care what kind of back-splash goes in there, just let me paint!"

Have been working on a larger painting of a location I love down at Otay Lake. It's a spring view and 24 inches by 36 inches. My studio is kind of crowded at the moment so I have to move and adjust everything in order to make my way from one end of the canvas to the other. Really need to move the studio around but that will have to wait until the bath, which is next to the studio, is finished.

I've come to a stopping point on the lake painting and my instinct tells me that it needs to be turned to the wall for a while so that my eye can look at it afresh. Here's what I have so far and it has a ways to go.

Can I just take a moment to share how disruptive it is to have home improvement projects underway?? Was to go out painting last week but had to cancel because the guy needed to come back. I keep repeating over and over, "it will be nice when it's all done!" (That's true, isn't it?!)