Making It Up

No Smoking

Instead of painting from a still life of model, I thought I would try to make something up. I just started this small work filling in the background with a smooth gradation with a large brush, then filled in some white shapes here and some dark green shapes there. It seemed a little skewed to the blue-green range and was crying for some red. What better way to tie the painting together than with a big red “X”? I added a little house and connected the white cloud shapes to the house’s chimney. Is the painting a warning to clean your chimney before you light a fire? Or is it just a silly excuse to paint. You be the judge.

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