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A second attempt at this scene at 11"x15". Some of this I really like, but it doesn't quite have the sense of calm I felt when I saw it. Any ideas would be helpful.
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It definitely has the sense of powerful sunshine. It looks like you can, very easily, put the paint on the paper, with very confident brushstrokes and I like that, very much. You know the and result from the beginning.
As the sense of calm....maybe fewer brushstrokes in the foreground and thinner in the distance....
Me too, kept looking over and over the videos in this last series and it looks so easy in Olly's hands...he beautifully, easily handles the brushes, logically lies the washes and I always think "I understand", but yet, I now have to admit that I have to work a lot on paint consistency, for example, and a lot more things... I can't unfold the whole painting from start to the end. I have to stop, from time to time, maybe I work on something else, than I return to it, seeing how it evolved, than considering the following steps. Maybe, it's not the good way.
It definitely has the sense of powerful sunshine. It looks like you can, very easily, put the paint on the paper, with very confident brushstrokes and I like that, very much. You know the and result from the beginning.
As the sense of calm....maybe fewer brushstrokes in the foreground and thinner in the distance....