The photo should look like the painting, but sometimes the photo looks better.

The longest day of the year has come, and the fullest full moon seems to have coincided.  The rains of late have made the grass green and the trees fully leafed, if that's a word.   The twelve paintings in the studio continue to evolve, six large and six small.  The ability to shoot digital pictures of them reveal some to be more photogenic than others.  And why shouldn't paintings be like people.

And yet, there is an interplay between a photogenic picture of a painting.  The painting doesn't look as good as the picture.  The reflection of light on the canvas gives it a life it doesn't actually have.  And conversely, the pictures don't capture some of what a painting might offer.  And so the urge to have the painting, from time to time, look like the picture, as well as the other way around. 

Six large paintings in the studio