Painting the same complicated and difficult picture multiple times doesn’t seem to make it any easier. But, since I have done it before, I know I can do it again (and again, and yet again).
This is the 16×20″ version.
These are the two 11×14″:
It takes some discipline to not get too far ahead on each one. Even if I am on a roll, I have to move to the other 2 canvases to repeat a successful rock, tree, texture, or stretch of water. When all are finally finished, I will evaluate each part, decide which painting is the best in that area, and then bring the other two up to the level of the best.
P.S. Who’da thunk that the plural of “Sawtooth” would be “Sawtooths?”
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P.S. How do you decide which is the “best” painting? Isn’t that like choosing which is your favorite child? Or favorite cat?
It will be more like this: “The water looks better here so I’ll fix it in the other two; that rock looks good – does it look as good in the other ones?”
I noticed that each one is slightly different than the other–a rock, the stream, the clouds. . . . do you purposely do that for variety’s sake?
I tend to do that if I crochet a blanket using the same pattern. I’ll change colors, or change the border, something different just to keep it interesting.
Sharon, it isn’t purposeful. It would take more time and concentration than I have to perfectly match each painting to one another and to the photo, which definitely has lots of weak points (too much detail in some places and not enough in others).
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