Will be interesting to see how this one turns out. It's a big one!
It's funny as sometimes I "know" and sometimes I am not quite sure...this is one of those times! It will be fun to go back tomorrow and lay the painting out on the floor, as it's so large it drapes the table on both sides, and see it in it's entirety. (Kind of looks like a nice bedspread! lol) I often take progression photos so thought you might enjoy them. I did not however take a photo, which darn, I should have, when it was covered with birch trees. You can get a hint of them still. Depending on what I find tomorrow, I may go back in and add some. I wasn't "feeling" them today but it doesn't mean they might not still show up. Time will tell! And one of these days I'm going to make a painting out of when I apply the paint, I have so much fun tossing it about and making fun shapes with it. I keep meaning to stop and concentrate more on that process as I often see really fun things before I start moving the paint around. This is a big canvas so it took lots of paint. I did however scrape off enough paint to paint another separate painting that I painted in tandem with this one. It's completely different! When I needed a certain color I'd just scrape into the big one and choose colors off of it like it was a big pallet, super fun. Cheers!
Showing the progression of this crazy "groovy" thing! Can't say I shy away from color! lol
The finished painting! Upright so you can see it. Might need sun glasses! lol
It's starting to be that time of year again!! Back into the woods I go!!
Not sure where the woods will take me this fall, but back I go! Wish me luck!! Think I'm going to need it! Cheers!
30 x 40
Hello fun fake Saarinen table that my neighbor put in the "free stuff" area!
My find of the day!! I don't have a real Saarinen table but now I have cute fake one that I'm just as happy about! I'm going to have fun working at this table! ;-)
These are fun to do!
I love doing this kind of painting...First there was no added color "stripes", now there are two. Tomorrow and the next days I'll let it linger where I can see it and soon it will come to me what to do with it next. There are so many possibilities! I sit a distance away and eye it with a pencil or any thin straight object I can find to hold it up and play with different lines. Oh so many choices!! It's a big one too so lots of room to play with, 78 x 54. Let the games begin! Cheers! (I also call this kind of painting a ‘secondary painting’ as the color was scraped off of another painting and instead of throwing it away, I scrape it on a new canvas. Each time it’s like magic, I love doing this!!)
Slowly adding lines! Will have to sleep on it for a bit!
Think I'll call it "done"!!
I love having my studio next door to my scanners! So lucky!!
Time to get these two scanned! So easy to just walk them next door to Arts District Image Works!
Busy, Busy Busy!!!
It's always amusing to me that if I have a painting laying close to where I work, they all magically morph into each other! Seems today all is coming up roses!
Sold this to a lovely client today!
One of the best parts of my job is meeting such wonderful clients who love art as much as I do! I'm so grateful to be able to share my art with others and I hope they will enjoy it for years to come. Thank you and cheers!!
Hum...I'm on a roll with these...I might have to create a new category for them!
Maybe it's time to create a new category on my website for these fellows. Think I'll do some more and then give them a fun name...they kind of remind me of shadow dancers. Not sure what a shadow dancer is, but I think that's what I'll call this catagory of painting. I love the complexity of them. Another fun fact about them, they create a secondary, what I'll call a "byproduct" painting with the paint I save from scrapping it off as I create the first painting. The blog below is what was created from the scrapings from this one.
