This summer I spent a few days with my sisters at the beach in Vermilion, Ohio on the shores of western Lake Erie. I sketched a bit one afternoon, loving the variety of blues in the water.
For the last two weeks while "trying" to paint a commission piece--which isn't going so well--I started and finished the painting above. I usually work on a couple of pieces at the same time, if a painting is too wet, I'll move to another. It also keeps my energy for the paintings fresh. This time I think I was using other paintings to avoid the commission, but also in hopes that I could take my enjoyment from the other works and infuse it into the commission. So far its not working. ugh. Fortunately there isn't a huge rush on the commission and I plan to get to it when I figure out what is blocking my creativity. (maybe I'll post a pic of what's happening so far)
So about the sketch and painting pictured here. In the painting I ended up turning Lake Erie into a landscape. Initially I had painted water, but I came back to the canvas a day or so after the water was in and it kindof morphed into landscape--which I know so much better than water--simply because I don't see the Lake on a daily basis, whereas I do study my little corner of the world everyday.
I painted a few pieces this
summer which have a similar composition to the painting above. I'm toying with the idea of painting a Horizon Line series. I love the meshing of color, verging on abstraction; still landscape.
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