8" x 8" oil on board
This might sound like excuses, but I think a lot of painters would agree that the most difficult thing to do, especially when painting outdoors, is to keep things simple. There is a universe of things going on in front of you and you have to figure out how to represent it within a two hour window before everything changes. And two hours is generous because, really, everything changes from minute to minute. The impulse when painting a scene is to start right in on that one thing that draws you to the scene and paint it in great detail. But, when you get too fine too soon, everything else suffers and you wind up with mud. I think this is true no matter what the artistic medium - paint, pencil, music, poetry. The best seems simple, when in reality, the most difficult thing to do is just the right amount.
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