Saturday I started this little guy. It needs a few more passes at it. I’m going to work on my patience and spend more than a day on it. I’m donating this to my daughters school art auction, just as a little silent auction piece. So I wanted to pick a subject that would appeal to the locals, everyone in Boise loves the foothills. It’s such a simple subject and composition, the challenge will be creating space and making it interesting. I’m trying to puzzle out landscapes. It might take 1,000 paintings and 20 years.
8×8″ oil on canvas
Jill Millward Artwork 
It has a nice peaceful feeling to it. N.
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Looks like a great start on a painting but more important is the charity aspect good for you. I did one charity painting last winter too.
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Hi Jill, I like that you are trying out a “simple” subject in this. Painting simple stuff is often harder than the detailed subjects, am I right? 🙂 I also like your painting of the cars over the Golden Gate bridge. Keep it up, keep it interesting and take care!
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Hi, thanks for the nice comment. Yes, simple is much more difficult for me. Portraits and figures are fairly straight forward because I paint what I see, whereas trying to evoke the feeling through just color and brushstroke using simple shapes is a challenge. After starting this little piece I thought maybe I should sick to bridges and faces. But I like to figure things out.
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