Lately I have been going through my stack of previously done paintings and reworking them in the studio. I have been adding gouache, pastel and colored pencil as needed to enhance and add energy to paintings that I feel were still lacking. Here are a few examples.
The top sketch is of the Athenaeum at Caltech; the middle one is a view from under the Colorado Street Bridge; and the bottom one is a of a collection of cottages at Crystal Cove.
Something I like to do occasionally is to go through earlier paintings and see if I can improve them. It might take a year or more before I know how to approach an old painting with a new vision of what it can be. I did these last weekend.
The top two were reworked with pastels. The third one was attacked with watercolor, more paint, and more vibrant paint. I have a tall stack of these average works so this will keep me busy for many weekends to come.
