Painting Number Three of Three

Hugh's Pond
7x7 

acrylic on canvas
sold

It's been awhile since I posted. Last week I was at the studio three afternoons working on this painting and it was also the last week of school so things were quite busy. Then I had organized a Block Party for our street which we had on Saturday- super fun for all the kids! I think they especially love the freedom of running across the road with no concern of traffic. By Sunday (yesterday) I was too tired to do much of anything. So I didn't!

This is the last of the three paintings of the pond commission. I wanted to do a pulled back view of the pond as opposed to another close-up detail. This one was quite possibly the most difficult. It did have rocks at the bottom left, but visually it just didn't look right. As soon as I took them out and continued the water, it just felt so much better. The colour of the rocks changed from where I started as did the foliage up in the top right corner. At the last minute I added the fish because on it's own the lily didn't seem like a strong enough focal point. Whew! I have one more concern which quite possibly could be in my head and I won't say what it is (in this post anyway) because I don't want to influence your thoughts!

I tweaked the water lily painting ever so slightly and want to take a better picture of it. Once I do, I will post all three paintings together.