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16×12 oil on canvas panel. This is the third version of this painting. The first was painted small and on location. It seemed full of unrealized potential (as do so many of my plein air studies). I painted it again in the studio, and showed it to one of my galleries. They took it and sold it rather quickly, but I was still unsatisfied with it. Here I am trying again, and this one, I think, is more successful. It’s interesting that in learning to paint we really don’t have anyone who can tell us if something is good or bad. Not in a way that would help us to know the difference, anyway. All we can do is step out and risk it on what we feel is the best we can do, and see where that leads us.

Get it down. Take chances. It may be bad, but it’s the only way you can do anything really good. (William Faulkner)

Risk is a necessary part of painting. You have to put yourself in harm’s way in order to stretch your competence and continue to learn. (Thomas M. Nicholas)