I think I have played around this enough to call it finished, It was done mainly to expand my skill in painting on Yupo and have fun doing something different than painting on paper. Now onto my next experiment, haven't decided what that should be yet. I'll post the WIP once I get started,

I will post this work in progress today to keep track of the changes since I am making this one up as I go. I have no particular end result in mind; rather this is an exercise to try out a lot of different techniques and force myself to resurrect any remaining painting skills I might still have.

This is watercolor on Yupo, which is, essentially, a sheet of plastic. So, I can, for the most part, wipe it off and restart any of the shapes here if the technique doesn't work. I'll continue to post the WIPs as I work through this one. That keeps me committed to continuing to work on it.

My goal now is to experiment with paintings that excite me and cause me to try new things and learn. I just started a watercolor on Yupo that is allowing me to do just that. I have rejoined my painting sessions with a group of crazy (crazy and crazy-good!) artists at the Art Club here in SCG and am again enjoying the fellowship of friends who paint. 

 

I did the bottom two thirds of this painting about nine years ago and have had it framed and hanging in  my home. I kept thinking it was bothersome that I had left the sky just a plain, hazy yellow, so a few weeks ago I unframed it, put it back on a painting board and reworked the sky after conferring with some of my painting buddies, I like the atmospheric perspective in the sky now that it matches that of the canyon better.

 This was the first painting I have created in about two years. I am really trying to get back what I've lost through inactivity, and I like this first attempt. Hopefully this will just be the start of lots of paintings!