Horseshoe #1 And Hippie Horseshoe

2/16/2012

Last night I was painting horseshoes. I am not sure what came over me as I have a fear of horsies. Likewise it is not at all certain why one of these horseshoes looks like Peter Max threw up all over it.

These paintings are watercolors--a medium that I have never really tried to use. And they are part of a bunch of paintings I have been working on over the past month.

This group of paintings is also the first time I have tried to paint in the past 20 years or thereabout. I will write more on this at some point.

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Laura

2/16/2012 06:56:52 am

Its cool you are painting again after all this time...good for you...keep it up...I would imagine painting is relaxing and addicting...both positive in the this case...

Patrick link

2/16/2012 11:10:48 am

I got very frustrated working with oil. It took to long to set up and clean up and I think I was trying to be something other than myself doing painting back then. I didn't just paint because it hit me to do something.I suppose it is very Buddhist...I just let go of ego (a little bit anyway)

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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.

Horseshoe #1 And Hippie Horseshoe

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