Showing posts with label rework bank barn. Show all posts
Showing posts with label rework bank barn. Show all posts

Monday, April 5, 2010

Redeux

This is a painting of an Ohio bank barn that I did last year and that has been a thorn in my side all winter. I would look at it and be more dis-satisfied every day. I decided that it was the warm umber that needed to be modified:





I grabbed it off the wall this weekend and impulsively took a paint brush to it. Gone is the vast expanse of warm rich values that really needed to be contained to the foreground. I'm much happier with the painting now - and I'm casting a very critical eye on a few other pieces that have not stood the test of time!
Do you re-work your paintings?