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BLAST OF BLUE... and it was not a Kerry Blue! Painting in the Studio with ELLE (Laurie Pace Texas Artist)

   © Laurie Pace        Graphics One Design 2023 "Blast of Blue" in Progress 8 x 10 Mounted Panel Mixed Media  In Studio - ELLE  Shop other Available Artwork.   Sign up for my quarterly newsletter and painting sales. Letting Go Our summer finally ended. Yesterday morning the winds switched from the south (we have been at 80 degrees for a week, down from 90-95 the week before) and with the north wind zooming in, Fall officially arrived with a cold freeze last night. It was 31 this morning but felt like mid twenties.  BLAST OF BLUE! I am working on a large canvas and this small one today . I have written often about 'getting in the way of the painting' and over controlling the paint itself. It works rarely when you do this. When you tightly paint or over compensate for what the subject is, you tend to lose the freshness of painting and the joy of the journey.  I am feeling that way with the larger painting... so...