A colleague of mine, knowing my propensity for all things rusty and wheeled, sent me a picture he took of this truck. I couldn't help but attempt a painting of it. I drew it, and painted it. It looked horrible. I couldn't stand it. Even my colleague looked at it and asked if I had regressed in my painting.
I literally started pouring on the water and rubbed most of the paint off the truck. Having done that, I was left with a painting that still had color, but which was infused with tiny white dots where the paint had been taken off. It still looked horrible. So, here is what I decided to do.
I admitted to myself that I'd wasted a sheet of paper and used it for some practice. I stood, instead of sitting, and started swabbing on paint, not worrying about color or exact placement of paint. In short, painting more loosely. You can see I got some red on the roof of the bar, a big swab of blue on the side of the barn, some green for trees, and yellows, reds and greens for grass. While still wet, I just flicked in a few weeds. I touched up the paint on the truck, and POW, a huge difference. I couldn't believe the transformation of this picture. It went from something that was totally drab and blasé to something in which the truck actually stands out in the picture.
I know that I still have a little bit of work to do painting but I couldn't believe how much better it look when I stopped trying to paint so tightly.
I hope you all enjoy it I am going to be posting the finished painting soon. Thank you.
