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The Back Fence in Spring - A Scene Revisited

4/14/2023

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  I've been in a bit of slump recently so I returned to a scene which broke me out of a previous slump in September of 2022.  This scene was kind to me before so I stretched a new canvas and painted it again today.  My early fall 2022 version is 12" X 12" and the one I did today is 18" X 18".  Since it's spring, I also got to paint the yellow forsythia which is visible behind the fence on the left side.  
  I like returning to paint specific scenes to see how I've grown and also to see what's changed in the scene that I'm painting.  Who knows, maybe I'll do a winter version next year!
side-by-side with the early fall version
side-by-side with the early fall version
My 2023 spring version
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Watercolor Mastercopy - Still Life with a Skull and a Writing Quill (1628) - Pieter Claesz

4/12/2023

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  I'm almost done with a mastercopy that I've been working on for a while now.  I started it as a demo for my watercolor class and I'm pretty happy with the way it's coming together.  I'm doing this as a monochromatic mastercopy of an original oil painting by a Dutch painter named Pieter Claesz.  The original is titled: Still Life with a Skull and a Writing Quill (1628) and is at the MET.
  The last mastercopy I did was during my semester at the Florence Academy, but I'm going to keep doing them because it's really good practice.  Maybe I'll do a full color one next.. 
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