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Cheshire Farm Buildings 16"x20" Oil

Cheshire Farm Buildings Old Reject 

Cheshire Farm Buildings 16”x20” is another painting that I just did over an old reject. I show both the old painting and the new one in my blog. I had some fun with this giving it a touch of Fauvist style. I added a few shapes, especially a few verticals to add variety and eliminated a few, and  the color harmony is somewhat different. In this kind of a painting I rely on memory but more importantly I do what the painting requires me to do. So in many ways I am using the idea of the original compositions but making up the rest of it as I go. No part of the original reject shows through.

I suppose the artist decides if a painting is a reject or not. Personally, I think, if I look at my painting and it gives me some sort of anxiety then in my mind it is a reject. Then I need to do something with it either get rid of it, or if there is something good in it then I will paint over it as I did here. This applies only to landscapes and still lifes, but not figures.