Plein Air--not

Old Auburn Cemetery Redux
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8 x 10" o/c .....
I dunno--my first attempt to re-paint this didn't work out, because of the surface: I tried it on gessoed masonite, which I've always hated and still do. I keep thinking it shouldn't matter what I paint on, but it does. Even with some texture in the gesso, the paint slides around, looks transparent and feels like grease. So I wound up reworking the original location painting. But whenever I work from photos, I tighten up, and my piece ends up looking more like a photo than it does a painting. Oh well--onward and upward.

Today I'm going painting at a friend's house. She works completely differently, often abstractly; so I'm thinking I will take along the artichoke value study to use as an underpainting and add color.