Trying something new......

Ready for Market
Pastel on UArt 7 x 5
©Randy Hamburg

We all find a comfortable place be it in painting or in life.  It’s that place where we’re not challenged, where we can just sit back and not have to push ourself.  Sometimes I feel like “Crash” Davis in the final scene of the movie “Bull Durham”.  I just want to be.  I’ll tackle the problems later, or work out that composition that just won’t come together.  My comfort place in painting is landscapes.  If I make an extra branch or move the tree entirely from the reference, then it’s ok.  I can change the direction of a river if it leads the viewers eye to the spot I want in the painting.

In my last post I discussed my problems with buildings.  Today, I’m sort of working in between.  While I’m not painting buildings, I am painting man-made objects and maybe that will help me work up to painting buildings, towers, and more cityscapes.  For me, it’s pushing my painting in an attempt to become better.  This scene is another from the islands.  When we disembarked, vendors were finishing their setup for the daily market.  There were bright colors everywhere.  I’ve tried to capture the colors and the time just before market opened.  Let me hear from you.  What do you think, have I captured it and what does it make you think of with you see the painting?  Where is your comfort place and do you push yourself beyond it?

Keep painting!