Starting over means that I had to put two base coats of white on each pillow.   
Each side of each pillow and cushion....

Does not feel like "art" to me at this point....

Feels like work...

Now, this is getting better....

I seldom draw anything out ahead of time - but repainting these pillows was not on my agenda...

OK.   
Glad I drew it out first.

The back and the insides are covered with pillows and won't show - so I did not paint green all the way to the bottom.
Decided that it would not "feel" complete, unless I painted it all.
(sigh...)

Feels better.
I left those two strips of original fabric - just so that person who buys this is aware of what the sofa started out like.

Yes.  
I am liking this now!

So far, it had only seemed real in my head...

With the side pillows.
Still missing a little "something" though....

Painted that cording black all around the edges...
Still... still... eh, missing "something"....

Pin striping!  
That was what was missing!

Now all I have to do is paint 6 coats of clear sealant on every surface.
Six.
On EVERY surface.

Then I get my worktable back.

I am anxious to paint a painting.

A simple one sided flat painting.

Yep.

I bought 5 paintings at Goodwill.  Looks like they were all painted by the same person.
For me - good price on canvas!

 I blocked out big chunky shapes and dripped black paint over the chunks.

I got a styrofoam meat tray and carved some simple geometric patterns in it and used the same colors as the chunky blocks and started stamping.

Made for a cool mid-century looking background.

I did say that I was working on 
5 at a time?

Black lines for everybody!

White stripes and the red loopty-loops!

Give them loopy-loops some stripes too!

Black Circles!

Finishing touches on all the black circles - photo-shopped black frames to show them off an now they are for sale in my Etsy Store!

I have been busy. 
  Spring cleaning and painting over paintings that were just not "right."   

This is a painting of mine that did not make me happy and I have painted over it and left some of the original under there to peek through.  
 This is not finished yet.

This is what it looked like before. 
 It is one that I made using my styrofoam meat tray - "woodblock" prints.  

I bought this at a yard sale a couple of years ago and it actually looks a little better in this photo than in person.  
  But...
Time for it to reincarnate.

Hideous leafy texture.  
But nice texture, if it is NOT a tree anymore....
Scraped the biggest lumps off and  kept the rest.

And off I go!

Yep.
Same painting.
Getting it put up on the wall of my gallery!
Now titled:
"I know it's only Rock and Roll, but I like it!"

It started with a painting a friend gave me to paint over.
She bought it at at thrift store and did not get around to using it herself.

I have been in a yellow mood lately - so thought I would go with that.

I painted thickly in places and put some texture in there and then splattered some blue/green on top.

See...

 Added some pink and orange over that...

Added black lines.

White stripes.  Check!

Decided I wanted the roundy part at the bottom - so flipped the canvas around and then blocked in a face.

Eyes - mouth - yep.  That's gonna be a face.

Face outline and jaw...

Darker nose and then added hair hair and more hair...

Pink cheeks.

Put some white on the eyes and each eye ended up looking a 
different direction.  
 Ooopsy.

Wiped the paint off.
Several times...

Got the eyes figured out - added more hair and added lines around the pink cheeks.
Done.
I painted the wooden frame black and today will re-assemble it all back together and it will be for sale! 


3'X4' repurposed latex paint on reclaimed canvas!

Here is the first try.
( I have already painted it over)

Second face. 
 I like that the mouth extends beyond the face.

I took that second painting and played with it in a "superimpose" app on my iPhone and really liked the look of the stripes behind the face.  
 So I thought I would try to paint that.

Face #3 over striped background.

Face # 4.
Trying to figure out how to "block" the sections of a face together.   Cool unintended effect - looks like two faces...

Faces # 5 & 6.
Had two scraps of canvas and still thinking about those stripes under the faces.

Remember face #2? 
 This is the do-over face#2 and is my face painting #7.
I don't like it at all and will do-it-over again.
This may well be a cursed piece of canvas.   (sometimes that happens..)

Face #8.
I really like this one, but for some odd reason it looks like Jesus - and not just to me - a couple of friends thought the same thing.
Now, if you knew me, you would find that very, (VERY) amusing.


So.  
This was a brief tour of how my process and progress proceeds when I am painting.
:)

I painted a "background" on my recycled vinyl flooring....

I painted over my painted background and then "cut" through the top layer of paint to partially reveal the under-painting.   
The best part is, that when I am done with it, you can plop it on the floor and walk all over it!

Working on more for walking on!


Hope to see you there!

I painted an orange background on the vinyl.

Six coats of clear sealant and.....

this art is made for walkin'