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Oil On Wood (As Usual Wine Boxes) Sky, Prairie, Mahogany

10/21/2018

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This oil on wood piece is another inspired by Everglades photos taken over a number of years. Originally there were no trees in this particular painting. I actually really liked it as that.

But then I fell prey to that terrible thing--doubt. "I wonder if other people are going to like it....what are they going to think? Is it boring?  It is a little odd because I rarely do this. SO I added trees and I immediately hated them. It took awhile for me to get to the point where I kind of liked them and forgave myself for adding them. They are, essentially two copses of mahogany trees that were in a different photograph.

Obviously I am not trying to depict actual things in any case but being inspired by something that exists is the basic M.O. I suppose here we are just combining two such things.
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    Patrick Ogle

    For many years I painted. Then I stopped. These paintings started out a sort of experiment. Even when I did paint I never did watercolor. I spent a lot of time trying to be Van Gogh painting oil. Most of the paintings were unfinished. I decided to start using watercolor based only on the recollections of what my father had tried to teach me years ago. The newer paintings are the more recent. If you go back to the beginning you can see the early stumbling ones.

    I didn't start by drawing, I didn't practice. I just painted. I haven't included ALL the paintings and at some point I will post the first ones I did. But most of the paintings--for good or ill are here. Some are oil and also gouache.

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