Working on Two Paintings

I am attaching the time-lapse videos to go along with these. The 'almost-finished' paintings are posted in the column to the right. Some painting sessions go really well. It's just so easy. I have something in mind and it translates to the canvas with just modest effort. Other sessions are a prison riot. Something's wrong and I don't know why and I can't correct it. I try and I try and I try. That's what you see on the video. What should be a thirty to forty-five second video turns into a three minute marathon (more like a few hours in real time). I will say that the ultimate result is satisfactory and I always learn something more along the way. If everything was easy I wouldn't be learning.

Both of these paintings are places along where I play golf. A cemetery. A landscape scene. The light was right so I took a picture and am now using them for painting.