Painting Big Some More

Yeppers, trying to figure out how to paint big is occupying my time and mind these days. As I struggled with the Mineral King Honeymoon Cabin and got stuck again, I decided to start another big painting.

Sure. That makes sense. If something is hard, do it more. Practice makes perfect. If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again. But wait! Mrs. Kline taught us in 4th grade to “Never trouble trouble ’til trouble troubles you”.

Never mind.

Let’s try a simpler, more forgiving subject.

Bet you can guess what this will be. (The little circle is a wooden knob on the end of a pull chain for a lamp in the ceiling. You are welcome. I could feel you wondering about it.)
I could barely reach the top of the canvas so I rested it against the easel on the table instead of securing it inside the easel.
This looks like a good beginning.

Painting Giant Sequoias big makes sense. One day there will be a fancy “boutique motel” in Three Rivers which will be clamoring for large paintings by local artists of local subjects, and I will be ready!

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3 Comments

  1. Caution! “Practice” does not make “perfect.”
    “Practice” makes “permanent!”
    If you practice something wrong, it will be permanently wrong. This is especially true in the world of music, and I imagine would be in the visual arts, as well.
    This has been your Friday PSA. We now return you to your regularly scheduled challenges. Thank you.

    • Yeppers, Sharon, I know this and should have put those quotes into quotation marks. Thank you for your PSA!

      • “Debunking well-known but erroneous aphorisms since The Age of Aquarius!”

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