One Hour Paintings

I've decided to do another exercise in my continuing effort to become a better painter. One obstacle I sorely need to overcome is the amount of time it takes me to do a painting-way too long. This could be my fear of putting the wrong thing down or not being able to condense my subject into simple shapes and values. I always seem to learn better by doing, so I've decided to do one hour paintings. I won't be able to do this everyday, but I should be able to do this three to four times a week. The goal is to train my eye to break things down into simple shapes and values when putting it down on canvas. I plan to start out very small, condensing the image and hopefully the time to represent it with paint. Here goes....