Not every painting turns out OK and this is no exception. I have to remember I was trying something so it was always going to be hit and miss. I think it's neither one thing or the other, I was too timid in a way, trying to combine things that maybe don't go together. In recent paintings I have been managing to get a nice sense of distance which this doesn't have at all and the background mesas don't work against the flat sky. Also, I need to get my painting of bushes etc better, they look too generic and have no sense of something that has been looked at properly and painted accordingly.
So in short I don't like this one. But in a way it's good, I have learnt something that would have happened only if I had tried this out. I know what not to do again as well as realising that I need to brush up my skills in depicting leaves, bushes etc.
Oil on linen 20" x 16".
There is a step-by-step progress through this painting including what colours I used in previous posts on this blog.
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