Across the Lake

Across the Lake

A tiny landscape is in the works in order for me to try a different surface treatment to see whether I can make it behave the way I want it to. It is, of course, highly abstracted, but I am learning as I go. I painted a pair of these little gems today, and will release another one tomorrow.

All of this came about because I saw a painting last weekend that I loved, but sadly, didn't buy, and it made me strike out in a new direction. 

4" x 4" framed

Painted with the finest quality heavy-body acrylic paint on acid-free, heavy weight Fabriano watercolor paper

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At first these small landscapes were far too busy for their size. Since I want to maintain an abstracted approach, I needed to simplify to a smaller number of shapes in the composition in order to have a more pleasing whole. I found that it was absolutely necessary to have value sketches - even more needed than when I paint larger works. Isn't that interesting, and counterintuitive?

In my reading in the Old Testament today, I was in 1 Kings 15. The thing that I particularly loved about this chapter today was that GOD credits both David and his descendant Asa, both kings of Judah, with having hearts that were "wholly true" to Him. I can think of areas where each of these men failed, but GOD simplified, in a sense, and called them wholly true. I love that, and want Him to see a true heart in me too. Don't you?

1 Kings 15:3 - 5, 14

"... and his heart was not wholly true to the Lord his God, as the heart of David his father.... because David did what was right in the eyes of the Lord and did not turn aside from anything that he commanded him all the days of his life, except in the matter of Uriah the Hittite. ... Nevertheless, the heart of Asa was wholly true to the Lord all his days."