Before the Rainbow

This is the finished painting, “Before the Rainbow”. The colors are quite bright blue even though it’s during a rainstorm. Even though I like it, I would say this painting is a good example of “overpainting”. The original, which looked more like the “before” photos below (taken with my phone, so they are rather bad) was much more free-flowing, wild and abstract. I then proceeded to mostly paint over most of it, which wasn’t what I intended to do! But sometimes, that happens.

The end result is still a stormy sea with rain and a beach, but it’s much less freely done and less abstract than I intended. It’s important for artists to know when to stop painting, just as it’s important to have some kind of plan when you start to paint, but even so, sometimes you get happy accidents. Sometimes you don’t.

You can see, and even buy, this painting on Leitworks Studio.

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