This is downtown Orange. In the morning hours lots of folks are out for breakfast and coffee and stand about chatting. It was a sunny day , but the wind was kicking up my easel and just poking at me. It is not easy to make a deliberate detail with a brush. I gave up and stopped at the block in.
It was good to be out in the company of Kim Vanderhoek and Dana Cooper. My painting has just been off. I figure I need to be out twice as much and just don't have the time. So patience and enjoy the paint, the view, study time and the company. Funny I uses to think painting cleared my head and now I think I need a clear head to paint...go figure.
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Love this. Like lovely bits of history.
Right on, I feel that way also. I need a totally clear head to paint. I need to stop and take a deep breath before I start. But of course keep painting. It doesn't look off. :)
The mental part of painting still has me confused. I completely agree that a clear head leads to good painting. However, there are also those days that I am so excited and wrapped up about a painting and sure enough those work too. I do like your painting. Very nice work!
It was a terrible day to paint, that wind was awful!
You finished this up nicely with the details like the tree shadow.
Mine got wiped.
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