In Progress, Leftover & Finished

The Cosmos

The Cosmos in progress is next to be worked on until it is finished. As I paint more than one canvas at a time, it is good to line them up one after the other instead of selecting as I paint along. I find it is easy to become distracted during a painting's progress. Adding a pinch of organization preserves purpose.

Leftover Paint

At the end of a painting session, there is left over paint on the palette. Instead of spraying with water and sealing it up in a container, I use the colors on another canvas. Leftover Paint is such a canvas. I sketched the lines of the Adirondack Mountains from a familiar photograph, and then fill in the colors with the leftover palette paint. I have no specific image plan. I suspect I'm going for autumn.

Summer
Mixed Media Abstract
Acrylic 18" x 24"

Finally, after a few years this mixed medica acrylic abstract is finished. I do not want to paint anything else on the canvas other than maybe spruce up a black line or two. This painting has been through so many changes, I'm exhausted with fixing what didn't feel right. 

Actually, in a moment of frustration, without thinking about it first, I began adding the yellow over the left side. It was supposed to be all blue. I sat there staring at it, picked up the laundry marker, put in the lines, and got a WhaLa! The painting is done. I like that under painting showing through from some of the original versions. I like the fading into that area in the center.