My Finished Landscape Painting For The Dining Room (Plus Framing Options)

Here’s what the painting looked like yesterday…

I thought it was a good start, but I wasn’t really pleased with the flowers in the foreground. Plus, there were a few details I wanted to add.

So after spending yesterday afternoon working more on the foreground flowers and adding more details and color, this is what the finished painting looks like.

There are still a few tweaks I’d love to make to it, but I decided to stop and walk away. One thing I’ve realized is that I can completely get lost in painting, obsessing about details, and making tweaks and additions. When I started yesterday afternoon, I thought I’d spend about an hour on it and move on to another project. But I put my headphones on, turned on a podcast, and got lost in the project with my tunnel vision. There’s something so relaxing and immersive about the process. The next thing I knew, it was four hours later, so I just had to force myself to stop.

Even though there are more tweaks I could make to it, I have to say that I’m very pleased with how this turned out. It’s not the first landscape I’ve ever painted, but at 48″ square, it’s definitely the biggest landscape I’ve ever painted. The sheer size alone felt a little intimidating before I started, so I’m pretty proud of myself for jumping right in and tackling this project.

These aren’t perfect, but they demonstrate the ideas. Of course, the painting will be hung on the wall, but I don’t have a picture of the painting hung on the wall to work with yet. But here’s what it would look like with a thin natural wood frame.

Here’s what it might look like with a thin gold frame.

And here’s what it might look like with a thin white frame.

At the moment, I’m leaning towards gold, but you can tell me what you think.