Confessions

I reworked this one over and over until I got this on April 20th. Now was all the agonizing over it worth while? I broke my rule. I do better to start new paintings. Well I do like the way the landscape rolls in a natural way after all the changes. The initial spontaneous urge is still there?

" "Cibola Wildflowers" is 16" x 20" acrylic on canvas.

I have broken my promise to keep my work fresh and not go back into it unless I am using it as a springboard to something new. I had an idea I wanted pretty flowers so even though people liked the "Wild flowers at Cibola", I felt it could be richer and I wanted to see more transition in the colors so I corrected this painting long after my first response that should be the best spontaneous painting. Yesterday I posted a new revision and today I deleted it and have made more basic changes. I am glad I did even though I liked it in the first photograph I took of it with my easel set up in location. The paint was all dripping down and the flowers were not in the painting yet.

I am happy that rules can be broken even the ones made by me for me.