"The longer you look at an object, the more abstract it becomes, and, ironically, the more real." Lucian Freud

The three biggies for a successful painting are 1) Composition  2) Color  3) Content

Today I worked controlling a mood through color choices.

The first of "Frank's Sheds" is suppose to convey a bright sunny morning with an upbeat mood using analagous colors of blue/green/yellow/orange range.

In the second one I tried to convey a quiet, hazy, thoughtful mood by using grayed colors in a split-complement color combination of blue/purple and a gray-green and a bit of accent color pink.

"Frank's Sheds 1" 12" x 8" on LaCarte sanded paper

"Frank's Sheds 2" 12" x 8" on LaCarte sanded paper