May

14

Some New Project Ideas….

Filed Under Carrie Lewis 

…as if I need more of those!

Several new images have found their way into the screen saver rotation so that they can be randomly considered for future paintings.

This can be both exhilarating and frustrating!

For example, last year, I painted 315 aceo landscapes. The challenge was to paint one a day for every studio day. There were 313 days that weren’t Sunday and I counted every single one of them as a studio day, even if I wasn’t home.

Many of those mini landscapes would like to be larger paintings, including the one shown here. Of the 315, there are probably a dozen that would make great larger landscapes.

I recently found a racing scene photographed up at Mt. Pleasant Meadows in Mt. Pleasant, Michigan probably ten years ago that would make a great painting. This particular image is one of those that catches my eye every time I look through the horse racing album, but until recently, it never really made an impact. Part of the reason for that could be that the muzzle of the primary horse was chopped off when the photo was printed.

What’s more, it would make a great BIG painting. As in 20×30 or larger. Whew! The idea is certainly thrilling, but it’s also intimidating.

It has great action and speed so I pulled it the last time around. I even looked up the negative and guess what? The whole horse is on the negative. The print and negative are set aside on the to-do pile, now.

I also have set aside two images from Keeneland Race Course workouts. Both of them have been painted before, but one was painted ten or more years ago and one was done five years ago. I’m wondering how my style has changed in that amount of time….

The group of horses I photographed grazing along Tawakoni Road northeast of Wichita also presented some good ideas, no the least of which is this one. Minus the barbed wire and the utility pipe in the foreground, add a long, narrow canvas format (12×24 or 15×30 or something of that nature) and I can see a neat, out of the ordinary composition.

So the ideas continue to abound. And multiply!

Ah! For the time to put them all to canvas!

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