palette knife study 8x10 oil

After 3 attempts at what I thought would be small easy paintings that lead to frustration, I decided to just play with my palette knife and fingers. It's nice not to have to clean brushes!

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Comment by Britt Greenland on May 24, 2014 at 4:35: Thanks for the comments! I've decided to relax and play more often. It's so easy to get tight! Michael, I did add that shadow, and I like it. Thanks!

Comment by Michael J. Severin on May 23, 2014 at 1:02: Great painting Britt....full of creative energy, color, and abstraction. I like the way you opened up the trees with the dark just behind the house ....your specks of underpainting are sparkling ..good technique on that. The one thing that I would suggest is to show a direction of sunlight by putting a shadow under . umm, .lets see ....the left eave ...that would indicate a light direction (important) and also give a little more interest to the large white area of the facade. I realize there probably was no shadow, so make it up. :)

Comment by Cristina Mihailescu on May 23, 2014 at 0:52: Just great!!

Comment by Olivia O'Carra on May 22, 2014 at 21:41: I was going to say great brushwork until I read your caption So great fingers and knife!

Comment by Ann Turner on May 22, 2014 at 16:40: Hi Britt, good energy in this one. Congratulation on having the courage to step out of the box and having fun with it. I especially like the tree area that is readable as trees but still abstract.