Blue Morning, Oil 20 x 24

This painting was done from a couple of photographs taken somewhere in North Georgia and North Carolina. I try to come up with my own feeling about the elements I see in the photographs instead of copying what is there. I enjoy using only one or two colors at times and this was one of those. It is mostly a blue painting with other accents used in various places ... like the rocks, and the background trees.

The canvas was previously used for an exercise using “mark making” and it was in shades of blue, so it was a wonderful underpainting for what I painted here. It did inform my choices of colors and for some of the composition. I often paint on older work and find it inspires me in ways a blank canvas does not.