I'm often asked this question. This can be a fine line... I can't tell you how many times I've heard artists say the following about a painting... "it wasn't quite right, then I went back in and I overworked, ruining the painting!" So yes, you can overwork it and at other times you can just be unhappy with it and continue to change it until you feel you've a good painting. This is the case of this painting I'm going to show you in the photos below.

As promised, an image of the final painting is included here, at the bottom of this post. BUT I want to tell you something that I'm really excited about, as I've contemplated the progress and completion of this painting. Although my painting is filled with a large expanse of blue, I also included dark at the top and side to represent distant space. And in distant space, nothing shows up clearly. Instead, what does that look like? 

Here's a photograph I found back in December,

Here I go again! Yes, another new website. This one is all about my fine art endeavors. And you're asking "but why?". I wanted a place you could go and see nothing but my paintings! No family photos, no blog about some trip I've been on, no latest pic of my cute great-grand babies. Just my fine art... which I work on almost everyday. 

So here's

I'm a morning person. If I sleep past nine o'clock I feel I've 'lost' a whole day. Fortunately, I have a Facebook friend in Florida who is a 'real deal' morning person. He gets up before daybreak every single day of the year to be on the beach at dawn and photograph the arrival of the morning. He shoots hundreds of shots, then returns home to edit the work. Afterward he puts three to twelve of his best shots on FB before eight am. WOW! He generously asks his friends to use, or copy the ones they like or want. 

I want to show you one he recently posted.