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ACEO Landscape Painting A Day
ACEO Landscape Paintings
by Carrie L. Lewis
Week 20, 2007
It was a fairly good week for painting. One landscape for each day this week. At least until Friday.
On both Friday and Saturday, I worked on two landscapes each, but Friday's work ended up being wiped off. And what about Saturday's?
Well, you can read all about that below.
The net result was four finished ACEO Landscapes for the week, two ACEOs of frustration and four more that will hopefully be dry by next week!!!!
I hope you enjoy this week's collection of original ACEO landscape paintings!
May 14, 2007
Landscape Study #150 2007
3-1/2" x 2-1/2"Original oil on acrylic sealed archival mat board
May 15, 2007
Landscape Study #151 2007
3-1/2" x 2-1/2"Original oil on acrylic-sealed, archival mat board
May 16, 2007
Landscape Study #152 2007
3-1/2" x 2-1/2"Original oil on acrylic-sealed, archival mat board
May 17, 2007
Landscape Study #153 2007
3-1/2" x 2-1/2"Original oil on acrylic-sealed, archival mat board
May 18, 2007
Two Steps Forward, One Step Back
People often look at the work of artists of all types and seem to think that painting is easy. I can understand that. They never see an artist struggling over a reluctant painting or attempting (sometimes with great frustration) to compose the Ôideal paintingÕ for a portrait customer. All they see is the finished work.
Over the 30-plus years I have been painting for fun and for profit, I have learned that most paintings work fairly well from start to finish and will be relatively trouble-free. A few remarkable paintings will come very easily and almost literally just fall out of the paint brush. A few paintings will resist every effort of the artist as though they had a will of their own!
This last phrase is the best way I can describe my painting day today. I worked on two landscapes this evening and nearly finished both of them.
But both of them had minds of their own and absolutely, positively were not going to be forced to do what I wanted them to do!
Part of the problem, I think, was a slick acrylic under painting and an oil painting over painting with no cushioning layer of oil in between. Part of the problem may also have been a singular lack of inspiration and enthusiasm on my part.
Whatever the case, I ended up wiping off all of the landscapes in both paintings. The skies were pretty decent, so I left both of them. What you see above, is what resulted from the dayÕs efforts. Two steps forward, and one step back!
Welcome to studio life!!!
May 19, 2007
A Day of Preparation
And little else, unfortunately!
After work, Neal and I needed to make a trip to Wichita for art supplies and to run other errands. It was Saturday evening and my birthday, so we took our time coming back home, wandering through the countryside between Wichita and Newton and hoping in vain to see a train.
When I got back to the studio, most of my works in progress were too wet to continue with (yes, even yesterdayÕs travesties were still wet!), so I instead worked at preparing more cards for the coming weeks. I had purchased a brand new tub of Golden Gesso ground and spent the rest of the evening painting 16 cards with at least three coats on all sides and around the edges. ThatÕs a time consuming process, but it is very necessary and I have found that doing them in batches like this is more productive than trying to prepare each card before each painting session.
Having said all that, I will say that I did do a little bit of painting, too. I painted the four skies above in preparation for whatever wonderful landscapes may yet await them!
Thank you for your interest in my ACEO landscapes. I hope you have enjoyed browsing them as much as I have enjoyed making them.
Email me for details about having your favorite scene or landscape painted as an ACEO original.