this painting is starting to grow on me
Well wasn’t I just saying in my last post I don’t paint winter scenes in winter because it was double depressing? I guess I do now, I am finding that breaking long standing rules is kind of fun and as an evolving artist you have to be tweaking the way you go about things all the time in order to keep your noble craft of painting interesting and entertaining. The latest thing I have been doing is taking a lot pictures with my new iphone on my daily commute into Manhattan to find new images for my paintings because this is the only time I can find any interesting subject matter now that I don’t have the koi pond anymore and I work all the time. In one of my previous posts I was babbling on about what is going on in your life runs parallel with what is going on with your life? well baby it has been snow, snow, snow for quite a while now and that is what you are going to get. I like that it was still snowing when I took the shot, fresh snow is the best snow to paint and I am looking forward to getting the texture of the snow just right as it sits on the branches. There was a traffic light that was lit red near this branch and I love the way the color reflects off the snow, and of course I had to enhance these highlights in photoshop for a little for just the right effect.
The most important thing about this artwork is that it is coming along quickly. You know how I am always going on about how slow I am, but in this case I am just whipping through it with careless abandon, I am not worrying at all because this is not one of my ‘major’ works so the pressure is off. I am just going to have a little fun until my next project. And since I don’t have any clear vision on how the end result is going to look like, I have a lot of more leeway, maybe that has been my trouble from the beginning, I think it is time to let go of some of these strict old rules that I have been keeping that have been slowing me down.
March 7, 2014
BUSY BRUSH CAFE 
I love the complexity of this image, and the subtle colours. Wintery without making me shiver!
thank you, I totally wiped out on the ice like five minutes after I took the picture.
😀 Oh the sacrifices that we make in pursuit of creating beauty.
oh I am counting every day until spring, that is for sure. 🙂
thank you, I am really enjoying this one it is good to get away for a while from painting water subjects all the time.
Really like the painting, how you captured the branches. And a great idea to take photos with your phone as you commute. Guess you never know when you go back through the photos which ones will click with you to bring to life in a painting.
that is true, I remember all the photos I took of my backyard koi pond before we had to move, must of took close to 800 shots and lets see maybe fourteen of them came out as painting. I am working all the time so I figured if I didn’t get any shots on the commute I wasn’t going to have anything to paint.
Stunning work. You can tell you’re having fun when it spins along like this!
it is fun the snow sort of reminds me of cotton candy with the pinks and all, this is such a non serious painting for me and it is a welcome relief.
Lovely work. I struggle so with this kind of detail. Hats off!
With the detail i am not even brushing it in I am jabbing at the canvas with the brush, I have really never done this before and it is fun as heck.
Wow, this is beyond amazing! You’ve captured the magic of snow and winter, the magic of nature!
kind of takes your mind off the fact that you are going to have to shovel the stuff. 🙂
I like the composition. You might consider doing some brighter red reflections. Just a thought. I like your faster working style as well as a possible way of churning out more work, especially if you can infuse it with the same level of content. Though the slower ones will always have their place.
thank you Erick you always have the best advice. I hope things are going well with you, I’ve been so crazy with everything lately sorry folks if these comments are a little late.
Will have to wait for the finish to comment on this one. You won’t believe what I thought I saw when I took my first look at it!
Oh my goodness! nothing dirty I hope! 🙂
Nope, just totally different from the subject matter in question. Hint: related to water.
whew! I would of been mortified! Greetings from the blizzard Alli 🙂
I’ve never been a big landscape fan but I really like the closeup image.
thank you, the shot I took for this was so dark I was going to trash it but then I took it into photoshop and contrasted the hell out of it and I was very happy.
Oooh, very interesting Robert! Painting is so much more fun when we “get out of the way”. I use my Iphone a lot for taking photos and it’s those photos that are inspiring my paintings these days. Our snow is finally melting over here on the west coast. We are finally out of the deep freeze! Yay!
oh the deep freeze is going to be upon us for quite a while, thank goodness tomorrow is the last day if February, what a bruising, grueling month it has been and it all started with the worst Super Bowl ever!
dear Robert, am so happy to have you on my list of nominees for the The Cracking Chrispmouse Bloggywog Award together let us spread more joy, peace, hope and love through our blogs ;D
thank you so much
You may slow so you say, but who cares as long as it turns out as lovely as your work is..this one is really cool Robert. I love the twisting and twirling I guess I would say..beautiful !!!
Sherri
thank you Sherri, I am happy that this painting is so different from the others it just makes me want to go and do more new things.
I like it because it is so different and its kind of fun just to experiment..I love to experment with digital..
have a great week Robert
Sherri
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Every season and the simplest of settings has something for the imagination to explore. There’s a lot of neat stuff in that tree branch.
thank you, I am going to do crazy detail on the tree branch at the end, I can’t wait
Don’t you hate people giving you unsolicited opinions? I can see a bright pretty winter bird sitting on those limbs.
I could totally see that too. save that for the next one, I have never painted a bird before, that would be a lot of fun.
Thank you for stopping by my blog. Your paintings are beautiful. I will be following you to see more.
thanks Sabina, see you around 🙂
Its amazing like all your other wonderful work. I like the switch and that cold is confined to canvas! 😉
Oh! I completed the book cover project and thanks for the encouragement. You can check it out on twitter: @IAmNotListenin
wow. looks fantastic. real impressive
Thank you for checking it out. I appreciate the feedback. I have gotten some really positive response. The project is really a worthy one and I was glad to be included. I can’t wait u til you have spring flowers to paint! :))
That painting is stunning!
I am so glad you liked it. I have done a lot more work on it and I am really enjoying painting it, I will post a picture when ‘m finished. 🙂