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    John humber
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        I’ve just been looking at an old post by “forrie” (Creativity forum) about work-block. It’s something I know quite well, but I’ll not go into that here.

        forrie said that she (I think she but could be wrong), found it a big difficulty to work on one painting at a time. I, on the other hand, almost never do that and almost always am working on anything from two to four paintings at any given time.

        Ok. So recently I’ve been working on three different but related paintings and for quite a while—two weeks or more—have felt that I was treading water with them and that they were not progressing as they should. The works are on mountboard and when I use this surface I cut it to an inch or two larger than the planned size and tape the edges.

        After days of frustration I reached a point of I’m still not completely satisfied with these but I’m beginning to feel that they are as good as they are going to get. So I decided to call them done and stripped the tape off. What a surprise. Now, I knew that they would look different when all that mess is stripped away, they always do, but not usually to the extent of turning something I’m quite disappointed with into something I’m not disappointed with.

        Do others see them in the same way? Or is it just that I had become so accustomed to the way they were and to my disappointment that I could no longer see that proverbial wood for the equally proverbial trees?

        “Dry ditch near Wilfhome” and “Another view of Keyingham land drain”. Both 10×10 inches.

        PLEASE how do I make these dreadful yellow things go away? OMG there's even more of the awful things now.

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        Ohiohawk97
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            <p style=”text-align: left;”>I like them both John.  They both have sweeping energy and expressive brushstrokes. It may help to slightly lighten the value of that dry ditch as the eye gets a bit trapped from going back into the distance, likely due that being the area of greatest contrast. They both are beautiful works and are fun to look at.</p>

            Wes

            #1504115
            Keith2
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                The paintings are better after the masking tape has been removed. It might be that the straight edges enclose the landscape and  the eye concentrates more. The thick impasto gives more body to the foliage.

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                I like the perspective and impasto texture.  Color works well.
                The green and tape border was distracting.

                #1504407

                This is why I don’t tape edges no matter what the medium or support.  Love the texture and colors.

                Kay

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                Dcam
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                    Skyenorth
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                        Great studies, I really love them!

                        Caroline :good:

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