Peaches on Blue Napkin

Peaches on Blue Napkin

8" x 8" oil on board

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Today's lesson was one that I have to repeat to myself over and over throughout all aspects of my life:  DON'T FREAK OUT!

Not only does freaking out not make things better, it usually makes them worse.  Such simple advice, yet so hard to follow...

I thought there was no way this one was going to make the cut. I almost freaked out and wiped it. As usual, glad I didn't.

Peach

Peach
6" x 6" oil on board
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It's probably not a coincidence that some of my best paintings happen when my kids are away at Nana and Papa's...my only goal was to not overdo it. That might be why the plate is not a perfect shape. I was just trying not to screw it up...

I like this one.  It tasted good, too.

Window Peaches

Window Peaches
8" x 10" oil on board


Some peaches in manganese violette, viridian, and cadmium yellow light.

'Corn and Peaches'

11" x 14" Oil on Panel
$150

"How often have we all come to that crucial point in a painting where it is practically "begging" us to stop before we ruin it? We have all had that experience and we risk failure, or at the least mediocrity, if we ignore the voice in our art." (Richard Schmid)

I reach this point in every painting and the hardest thing for me to do is to listen to that voice that tells me it's finished. I wouldn't say that I overworked this one, but it did have a more spontaneous look to it that I ruined when I tried to perfect some things that didn't really need perfecting. I want to be better than mediocre...

Richard Schid