Personal Art Blog

Sharing the lessons I teach at the Artist Guild and the personal discoveries in my art.

Thursday, January 26, 2012

Purple Mountain Majesties



Purple Mountain Majesty

6x8in oil in canvas SOLD


This is another beautiful sky over the Organ Mountains, here in Las Cruces, NM.
I love the song,  "America The Beautiful"   It says it all.

Artist Note:

I spent another day struggling over the same painting as yesterday. Still not right. The fourth, I repeat...the fourth wipe off! Imagine, all this angst on a painting only 7x5in.
You may wonder why am I still persisting?  It is because I am learning so much with all these errors.
Any pressure? You betcha!
Feelings of not being a worthy artist? Yep - throw in the towel. Nah.


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2 comments:

  1. I know exactly here you're coming from, although I HAVE almost given up recently!

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  2. It looks like the sun is really glowing behind those clouds in the painting. Wow.

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