Sunday, December 21, 2025

Mountain Lake, Mountain Lake, Mountain River and Mountain Lake (Acrylic on Canvas Board)





I’m fairly certain these were all done by the same person. Here we have the same problem I so frequently encounter: these paintings manage to be not bad while also being just not that great. There is gumption here, and drive, and focus, but nothing important is being said with the paint. Or, if not nothing important, than nothing really worth…the time spent. But by expending this exact same amount of paint and intent, something good could come of it all. Even a bad portrait of a real person, or a self-portrait, would matter more than this. A building. A room. Something, anything real. Not this…pre-fab, easy, boring, and totally expected flapdoodle.