No. 16

My main goal for this work was to make the paint break on the mountain. I'd spent a couple hours just dragging paint over a canvas, scraping it off, and doing it again until I became quite confident I could make it break at will.

I'm not too concerned with how the rest of this turned out. I used an old canvas with a greenish, grayish, yellowish color on it and just added some linseed oil to wet the surface. The colors are off on the foothills and background trees, and my pines aren't the best, but I'll work on those areas later.

I discovered painting seems to be like practicing any sport. You want to be a good hitter, spend some time in the batting cage. You want a hard slap shot, line up the hockey pucks and keep slapping them into the net.

It's difficult to practice painting a specific thing, however, when you're trying to create a completed work. You get one shot at a mountain then have to move on to distant hills...then move on to background trees.

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