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6×8 oil on canvas panel These are fun to set up. I started with an analagous color scheme featuring the yellows. I couldn’t resist putting the violet accent color in the shadow when I was finishing. I also tried painting this without much refinement, since I want to practice getting it right and leaving it. I want to learn to keep it fresh and avoid painting out some of the nice accidents that come with spontaneity. This only comes with long practice, and I know I have a long ways to travel. But I will arrive one day at a time.

The spontaneous is the most beautiful thing that can appear in a picture, but nothing in art appears less spontaneously than that. (Jeff Wall)

The most difficult part of creation is keeping that freshness, that spontaneity that looks as if a painting “just happened”. (Anne Adams Robertson Massie)