Experimenting with Mark Making

 Along with limiting my shapes and colors, 

I've been experimenting with "mark making".

This little one 

took many turns along the way. 

Busy Beach 

9 x 9 oil 

First, I used a different image of the same subject and 

blocked it in over an old painting on a carton board. 

I got it this far,  then scraped the whole thing off 

because I didn't like the composition. 

(I kind of wish I had kept working in to it 

at this point) 

I chose a different "view" of the same scene, 

and let it dry a bit after I got it this far. 

Once tacky, I was able to go back in and soften some of the edges,

and adjust some of the color shapes. 

We are in the height of summer, 

so I think there will be more experiments 

with this subject matter!