I started a new landscape in oils. It wasn’t going well so I mixed all the blue of the sky and the green of the land together, and just carved the composition out of it all with a rag. Worked quite well actually.

Two roads WIP #1

A couple of hours’ work turns this rough into something vaguely recognisable:

Two Roads WIP #2

Still some more work to do – particularly in the sky – the top left corner is what happens you get impatient with oils and try to glaze over paint which is still wet…