One Thing - Landscape Painting
Hello again, Shari has been busy once again with painting a landscape. It’s as easy as 1-2-3 … 1. Draw 2. Block in and 3 refine. Of course after the refine there is something else needed and that is finding the One Thing. That’s where we review the painting and look for the one thing that will improve the painting. Live with the painting, keep it in sight each day and keep looking for the One Thing. Eventually, it will jump out at you and niggle you so much that you have to fix it. That’s when you figure out how to fix it and voila! Your painting is finished. Waterlily Lake With this painting I had used a photo reference as a starting point. I had drawn out my shapes on the canvas with thinned oil paint. Then I blocked in the big shapes. Having refined and put in the detail I was not really happy with the result. So I set about finding the One Thing. Of course there is more than one thing needed to fix this painting but I always just focus on one thing (at a time). First