Holiday Wreath / Shake up

 This was not what I envisioned myself painting today but it is what it is which is the back of our house

which I painted just a couple weeks ago. My time was limited and after taking a quick walk across the street and down an alley I suddenly realized that I had forgot my canvas so back home I went a bit frustrated and said 'screw it, I'll paint the dang house again!" 

I mean, it does have a wreath on the door so what the heck. I did come to the conclusion that the colors of our house are very hard to paint, at least given the light this time of day which was between 2-3:15

the time it took me to paint this. Lots of squinting going on and I would still like to perhaps go back and hit a few places but this is an honest 75 minutes. 

"Holiday Wreath" oil on canvas 8x10


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