Loosening up!

This painting of Ryan & Sean is not complete. It needs more contrast and I'm working on it!

A New Approach

I take a lot of photos of cows. While driving to the cottage,

I often have my camera hanging out the window,

snapping cows as they , or I, whiz past!

I like the look of them. And I want to paint them.

But all attempts have ended up looking cartoon-like.

So, I tried to paint them with less detail.

Squinting my eyes I painted around the light areas,

leaving much of their shape the bright white of the bare paper.

This is Keady Cows.

I thought I would try this again,

so I painted some Sandpipers at lawn bowling practice.

I stood on the other side of the fence, unnoticed.

I like the rather unstructured method of painting around the light.

This method suits the subjects.