Bringing the Everyday to Life

Failure can be very frustrating.  I had decided to do Jermyn, PA again but using a poured watercolor technique.  It usually takes me a week to finish a poured watercolor, where usually I am fairly quick with a regular direct painting method.    Yesterday, I revealed my painting to find that the sky was a total disaster and the values did not totally come out as I had planned.  As you can see, I cropped the sky and fixed some of the value problems I had.  I still am not pleased, but it is better.  I also did an overall wash, excluding the figure to try and bring the figure out more.  That worked.  I don't like this figure very well, he is too static.  I like the first figure better.  I do however like how the background turned out.    I think I am going to go back to doing more plein air.  I enjoy it and have been liking my plein air paintings better...

I was frusterated last night at the failure, ot least because it took me a week:)  However, failures are more useful than success sometimes.  We can learn from them and that helps us more in the long run.  I have learned that I need to be more patient with myself and my paintings....  Here is to my next failure, may it come with progress:)

First attempt at Jermyn, PA. 

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