Common Ground Painting

Work is progressing on the Common Ground Painting. Working on this piece, allows me to move around the painting depending on what I feel like dabbling in on that particular day. If it feels like a sunflower day, I work on the sunflowers, a tomato day; then I’m knee deep in red; I never get tired of working on this piece, there are so many different components. There are some of my pieces like “Reaching for the Sun”, that have so many leaves, you think you will never finish them all. However, painting this piece, with the large flowers and vegetables, provides it’s own unique set of challenges. The vegetables in particular, being much larger than life, have expanses of the same color, the challenge is making them look three dimensional and not flat. At this point many of the items look very flat, the carrots, onions and tomatoes, for example. Those items only have their first coats, there is no depth or detail to them now. I will begin to add more detail, bringing them to life as the painting progresses. I have started working on some of the bell peppers and the large sunflowers, adding more detail and dimension to them, but I’m a long way from completing this journey, but the path is so much fun. Enjoy the progress, and I’ll get back to my journey.

Putting on the paint

Close Up of Gulf Frittilary Butterfly