Painting # 3 - Don't Touch

'Don't Touch' 8x10 oil on panel

So, lesson learned, I love using the palette knife, but with this painting I got too much paint on too fast & struggled thru it. Thankfully I had defined my lights & darks early on. Was able to scrape back some of the areas & finish it up. Be sure to check out the other 300+ artists doing the 30 day challenge at Leslie Saeta's blog Slices of Life
The prickly pears were so beautiful on the hillsides around us a couple years back & I took a bunch of photos. Here is an award winning painting I did on the same subject in 2011. In this I used brush & palette knife.

'Spring Glow' 11x14 oil on canvas