Wandering.

Lost Path   Oils on board   10 x 12 inches   £ 300 (framed)   $ 385 

A look through the forest into the unknown.

A lost path leads the eye.

In a cream hand-painted wood frame.

(Available on DailyPaintworks.com)

'Lost Path' drying on the easel.

Studio Musings...

Yesterday I wrote about letting myself follow the oils when things go wrong.

 This is an example of how one painting can morph into a second possibility.

Using a white gessoed board I began by scrubbing transparent oils to sketch out a scene.

After several wipe-overs I knew this work was not going well.

  I pushed more oils onto the board...darks and mid-tones to see what happened.

Shapes of a forest with a distant view somehow emerged triggering a feeling of intrigue.

Deciding to go with the flow I kept to random loose brush strokes without too much detail. 

There is now an element of abstracted reality which I like and also some mystery.

The scratched and rubbed off parts give a worn, aged appearance

 and the oval 'window' in the composition leads my eye. 

 Light in the distance keeps a sense of hope.

I shall let it rest.