Back home in landscapes

Back in landscapes with the Daily paintings. Feel at home here and for me there is no pressure on painting intuitive landscapes. When I set off, I don't have anything in my mind. It's not like painting a face where clearly it's got to look like a face. Some artists would find a pressure in painting intuitively - we are all different aren't we ?

I have re painted some of my old landscape paintings and loved glazing new colours on. I preferred the last 4 of the week's eight daily paintings and these are ones that I have painted over old paintings.

Figure in landscape

Continuing with figures in landscapes. Feel uncomfortable in this genre but happy to paint over old paintings , including the Daily paintings, to continue to experiment. I think I feel happy that I am re painting Daily paintings that I don't like so that at the end of the year , I have only ones that I like left. It's strange because on different days, I have different opinions on which get the title of , 'painting.'

Anyway I have been looking at the work of Gillian Gustlin and Cathy Hegman. Love their work for different reasons.

I am ok with this one so far. I can accept it for what it is, a half hour painting of a figure in a landscape.

Daily painting 20/9/14.
Colours muted, figure is indistinguishable from the background it is in.Gentle, thoughtful painting. There is no form in the figure but , for me there is a certain charm and a spiritual content,

I covered the sides of the canvas in newspaper. The wood was rough so the newspaper covered it up. I like the newspaper though, it adds something else. It also brings the figures into the mixed media range and then there is not as much pressure really to render an accurate figure because quirky is acceptable.

Daily painting 19/9/14. Figure more defined here . I am enjoying doing them and the fact that they are half hour paintings is liberating.They are what they are and can be accepted as that. I paint over old paintings repeatedly and have lots to go at. Maybe look back at my children's photos when they were younger. Keep going though and try larger work.

Figures in landscapes

Daily painting 18/9/14. Trying figures in landscapes. Looking at the work of Cathy Hegman, but as always, the work goes it's own way. Well what do I think ? The figure is static, lost in the landscape a little, solitary, calm, a little reflective maybe.I added the newspaper because this was one of the boards that got bashed on the corner last week at the Pop up gallery.

Cathy Hegman's work.

Looking at the work of Cathy Hegman. Georgeous. How to describe it ? Well they are often solitary figures with a calmness and strength about them. They often don't have features and feel like a kind of coloured silhouette, ok that's a contradiction, but they feel like that. Her horizons ( if that's what they are ) are at different levels at each side of he figure.Her tones are dramatic. big tonal changes.

Big Daily painting 17/9/14

Another go at a bigger painting , working up the Daily sketches. This one seems gentle, romantic, dreamy,