I've made a bunch of new "speed paintings," maybe better called Quick Studies. An interesting thing about these little (6x8") paintings is that they feel so free and easy. They really are like making studies or sketches for a larger work. But some of them, more than I would have expected, turn out to be interesting on their own right. And it is an easy way to try things out before using them in a large scale painting. As Nancy Bea Miller suggested, I've come to of think of them rather like a musician doing scales to maintain technique and skill, and maybe try some different fingering in the process.
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| Mike: Painted during a Plastic Club workshop |
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| The channel behind Dave & Sandra's cottage in Oklawaha |
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| The dock at Lake Oklawaha |
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| What could be a more common subject for a Still Life than apples? |
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| This was another exercise in painting cavities - and metallic surfaces. |
Labels: Florida, Small Oil Paintings, Speed Painting, Studies
# posted by Leroy Forney @ 4:39 PM
