Worked on the sky in these two landscapes and the linen in these two still-life paintings. The clouds are not finished. For two or three weeks I’ll let the still-life paintings dry before applying glazes. Next, the middle and foregrounds will be worked on in these two landscape paintings.
Worked on the bottle and table of Still Life 2. The next session I’ll rework the apples, plate, and cup. After that, it will just be some finishing touches.
Worked on everything but the sky in Landscape 8. The clouds need work but they are still wet. None of it is finished but it’s getting close. This painting is only 8 x 10 inches.
Reworked all of Landscape 2 the last couple of days. I’ll rework it one more time and then finish off the details. This should be finished in a couple of weeks because of the drying time between painting sessions, a week between each session.
I think I will finish five or six paintings in January.
These two will be the next two paintings I will begin maybe by the end of the month. One will be 16 x 20 and one will be 20 x 16.
The captions of the two paintings are the command I gave the MidJourney AI program. It took a couple of weeks to narrow the images down to these two images and a handful of others. You give it a command with whatever parameters and it produces four images. Then you can vary any or all of the four images in a few different ways and you get four different images for each one. I did this many, many times. The command in the captions was the original command. I’ve wanted to do oil paintings of closeups of clear, rocky streams for a while. It won’t be easy. I’ll paint the bottom of the stream entirely with grays. After the grays dry I’ll paint over the grays with different colors transparent glazes. That’s old-school oil painting.
Repainted the sky of Landscape 8. I’ll work on the sky one or two more times.
After today I will only post if I have made significant progress on a painting.
Put down another glaze over the entire background, including the bottle, of Still Life 2.
Worked on the linen of Still Life 5. I’ll probably rework the linen once more before covering it with a colored glaze. The onion, radishes, radish greens, summer squash, bottle, and flour shifter won’t take very long to paint.
Worked on the linen and soda bottle of Still Life 3. Probably work on the linen one more time before covering the linen with a brownish transparent glaze.
Worked on the middle and foreground of Landscape 3. Not sure yet what I’ll do with the sky.
Worked on the middle ground of Landscape 3. Saved the paint to do more work on this painting tonight or tomorrow. My eyes get tired after an hour or two which isn’t the worst thing. I just take a break or quit.
