And now for something completely different...nighttime painting!

[bif]

I've never done a night scene before. What do you think?

https://markdomincreative.blogspot.com

[sinkingfeeling]

1. Cool painting.

[ret5hd]

2. Me too! I call this Bedroom At Night...

(oh, cmon,you knew this was coming! I like yours better though!)

[bif]

3. Or this one: "No Man is a Snowstorm"

[ret5hd]

4. Yeah...maybe...but that one leaves me with a deep and internal sense of angst and confusion...

and the need to go buy a tube of white paint.

[lunatica]

6. It looks like a black cat in a bag in a cave at night to me.

[ret5hd]

7. ...

[lunatica]

8. LOL! Not fair!

How can I ever argue against the Big Lebowski?!

[lunatica]

5. It puts me in mind of a skeleton

Don’t get me wrong, I like skeletons and even painted some dancing and partying when I was eleven years old. One skeleton was waving a bottle of booze. Skeletons fascinate me.

It’s interesting and intriguing that the side of the house and the roof simply disappear into the formless darkness leaving only the front in view, looking like it’s stripped to its bare bones. Only the branches of the tree are casting a shadow on it so it looks like there is a harsh white light, seemingly from a lamp post glaring on it.

The white dots on the tree puzzled me until I read your blurb and realized it was Christmas lights. Maybe if you paint a glow around them they will look more familiar. Though they too can be seen as the skeletons of light too.

Being familiar with your depictions of houses, your inclusion of shadows cast on walls, your attention to the details of foliage and to the backgrounds and lighting, I find this quite interesting in contrast. I think you painted the barest minimum. As if you just wanted to strip your painting down to it’s bones. I like it.

[bif]

9. Thanks!

I did put a glow around the lights but it's probably too subtle. I'll have to experiment and try to make them glow a little bit more. And you're right--it was pretty eerie and sinister looking. Almost like a dreamscape.

[lunatica]

10. Which gives you a choice

Do you want to leave it looking like a dreamscape (good descriptive word!), or do you want to warm it up with glowing lights?

My advice is to leave it like this. Just move on to your next one. It’s always satisfying to have a contrast with paintings that follow. It gives you a kind of inspiration for future work.

[bif]

11. You're probably right.

One of the hardest aspects of painting is deciding when to stop working on something.

[lunatica]

12. When that happens to me

I put it aside where I can look at it but will continue doing other art. I have paintings that took many years, even decades to finally finish. We’re all kind of nuts anyway.

[bif]

13. You're so right. We are nuts.

I like to think of us as "special"!

[lunatica]

14. LOL!

Speshul!