The inspiration for this painting came from a detail of my coloured-in Port Chalmers colouring page but I have been struggling with how I want to paint it. If nothing else, it has been useful as a background for a great quote by Rob Bell (my painting study WIPs are included below).
It looks better on screen than it does in real life and even though it is what I set out to paint, I really do not like it. What worked as digital art simply has nothing to offer as a painting. It feels very ‘meh’ to me. Which is great. Because now I know what not to do. Meanwhile I have already painted a second version of this little landscape and it is COMPLETELY different, but I’ll write more about that in the next post : )
Anna Cull ~ Art & Music 
I like it, has a graphic novel feel to it 🙂
Thank you, Matt : )
You are quite welcome Anna 🙂
I like the choice you make to approach this ‘failed’ artwork as a discovery of how you do not want to do it. Thank you for making me think about how this applies to other areas of art and life.
If only lessons to be learned were always this easy and this obvious : )