Wednesday, May 27, 2009

5x7=4

Last night I was feeling motivated to try a small canvas. I dug up one of my photos of Holyland (well, a photo of the cross on the hill taken from the mall--and that's the old cross, not the more elegant, yet controversial, new one) and in four hours completed a 5 x 7 canvas.




I might still go back over the sky surrounding the cross. Things got a little muddled there, working wet on wet while trying to paint straight lines.

The next time I buy canvases, I really need to find a smooth weave. Every time I see the bumpy weave on my paintings, I wish I had a smooth surface to work on.