Resurrected Painting Number 2: Connemara Lake

Here's the first version:

And here's the revised version:

This is one of the paintings that is now hanging at my local wine shop, Vinifera.

Resurrected Painting Number 1: Sunrise

I went through a bunch of my old portfolios and exhumed some of my old pieces. What better way to get over my fear of making mistakes than to work on paintings that are already mistakes? Here's the original:

A few days ago I starting work on it and completely scrapped the mood:

And today, I finished it off:

I am definitely happier with it now than I was when I started, and I think it might just be frame-worthy. Probably not juried-show-worthy, though, unfortunately. I realized this morning that I have an entry deadline next Monday...so I need to decide whether I want to actually enter that show or not, and if I do, I need to scramble to get something done for it!