Noodle Factory

This spot is so interesting and so understated.  I would like to go back there and try this again.  

not a good day

Well, not to make excuses but this was painted after a night of no sleep. After a late start getting out of the house, I ended up driving around for an hour looking for a spot with shade and an interesting landscape and then only having an hour and a half to produce something. Once I chose this locale, I was hippened to the fact that I was there on the day the landscaping was being done, complete with a tag team of gas-powered leaf blowers. Also of note is that once I had set up, it became quite obvious I had positioned myself in a well-favored spot for bladder (and possibly other organs' ) relief for passing hobos.

I thought this was interesting because of the way the red of the building was broken up by the regular placement of the yew trees. I wiped out the first try and then came up with this. Once it was down I wasn't happy with it but didn't want to have the day be a complete bust, so kept going.

Composition is so important. You can have the most beautifully painted thing but if it's not placed well on the plane, it will not work. This is an example of bad placement. I'd like to go back and do this again with a better composition. I'm going to focus more on working architecture in to the picture plane, too. And no, that's not a Johnny-on-the-Spot.