$89 unframed

6×8 oil on canvas panel I have a number of goals that keep me focused on developing the things I want to improve in my painting. One is to develop my ability to paint with a loose, directness of paint application, but very careful observation and organization of design. Now and then I like to set-up something that’s just way too complex to try and render. Here, I’ve crowded my small set-up box with a number of things and then tried to make order of it. Painting this way forces me to pay attention to the important decisisions, like shapes and edges, value and temperature, background and foreground. The goals I set for myself are often the motivation for what I will paint in order to get there.

Realistic goals: Beyond your grasp – but within your reach. (Anonymous)

The goal is not to be concerned with the reconstitution of an anecdotal fact, but with the constitution of a pictorial fact. (Georges Braque)