Spring Dogwoods III

Painting No. 20|12″ x 6″|Oil on Canvas

I’ve been at this now for 10 weeks and am finally starting to get it. I hope. What I learned on this one is that instead of focusing on painting a specific object I should only focus on painting.

Every object in the world is a random series of weird shapes and blobs of colors that our mind translates into an apple, pear or landscape. Up to this point I have still been painting what I think something should look like instead of what is right in front of me.

The truth is almost always weirder than what you assume something looks like and without that weirdness the paintings don’t snap together.

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Adam Houston is an American impressionist oil painter. He lives outside of Athens, GA and paints the landscape of the surrounding country. In 2010 he began the blog 100 Paintings by Adam where he documented his progress as an artist.  

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