Tending the Fall Garden

With Dave's Garden, Equinox I experimented with painting water on my gessobord first, then letting paint drip into the water and run where it would. I returned to the canvas later to paint onto that backdrop. When I stopped for the day, the study ended up feeling crowded. Colors and values were at odds with each other.

Went back to the garden to do some cleaning up and overall tending on a different day.

Decided to try warming up the green. Tried to brighten up the flowers so they'd pop to the foreground. Played simultaneously with a second canvas and a different interpretation of the same scene. Had fun and got into enjoyable flow moving back and forth between the two.

The garden feels a little less contrary now. Yay!

Still, something about both paintings brings plastic tablecloths to mind!

Here's take #2.

Equinox Tablecoth
6x6", acrylic on gessobord
floral
2015