Saturday, January 8, 2011

Winter Mood

Moody Heron II
10 x 15
Pastel on Canson Paper

I took a painting I posted before as "Moody Heron" and gave it some more life and color today just because I felt like it. It used to look like this.

Moody Heron

Am I sorry? I don't think so. After living with Moody Heron for a while, it began to look unfinished to me. It's so nice to know that as an artist, I can and do give myself permission to alter a painting and to paint it anyway I want. This is called artistic license. Every artist has this license. Some use it more then others. Some not at all. Where do you fit in? 

3 comments:

  1. I love the way the light always plays in your paintings... The sun stopped at your home because we have been in fog all week.. Tomorrow I am out of the studio and I hope into the sunshine,,,40 was the highest it has been all week.. stay warm.. hugs,

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  2. Thank you Vivian. Hopefully we will have some sun today. You stay warm too. Hugs

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  3. Nice work!!!

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