Last fall, for one of my painting classes, I decided to work from a photo that I had taken on a walk in the nearby woods, a close-up of leaves under bigleaf maple trees. After spending a couple of hours on the painting in class, I thought it was a total mess and put it aside. I ignored it for a couple of months and then recently looked at it again, and thought it had some potential, so I worked on it some more, and now I like it.
This class project was based on a photo of some colored glass vases of flowers. The photo didn't really do much for me, but painting the glass would be an interesting challenge, so I went ahead and tried it.
