Day 16, It's Never too Late

Never Too Late  6x6 Oil on Panel

Its never too late to do the things you want.  Never too late to take a hike, paint a picture, have a family, fall in love or to get saved.  It's never too late to post a painting either!  Yes, this was painted yesterday, but I was too lazy to post it.  Sorry.

This painting was fun to do.  For starters I used a base color of a brownish red oil paint.  Burnt Sienna to be exact.  Now, Burnt Sienna is a slow drying paint, in the world of oil colors.  I painted the base color last weekend.  When I picked up the panel to start painting all seemed well but when I started applying paint the base color started mixing with the colors I was applying.  This is both good and bad.
Good - because it harmonizes the colors by adding that touch of red in everything.
Bad - because I was fighting with the same color changes.  Made me think more and guess more.

The second fun thing about this painting is I picked up a pallet knife and used it for maybe half of the painting.  You van really see it in the foreground.  I generally only use a pallet knife in my abstracts so it was fun to bring in and try a new tool.  Probably like a concert violinist playing a fiddle.

Completed (painting) January 16.

Larry