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Be not afraid

4/25/2014

You may be surprised to know that I do not like everything I paint. I have a stack of do-overs that mock me from their place in the back room.
Sometimes a do-over does not even get a chance to go to the back room before I have to make it better.
Somehow...

Ummm, yeah... not exactly what I have visioned in my head.

The tool of "change."

Fearless now! No going back!

Now I have two pieces to play with!

First victim!

Some odd painted white shapes....

What was I doing? The ugly painting cut in half was getting uglier!

Flowers. Yeah. Flowers can cover up that ugly!

Kinda looks like a face - with flower hair.

Ha ha! I showed that ugly canvas who is the boss!
But now, I have to take care of the other ugly half. My work is never done!

I showed that ugly canvas a thing or two.
Or ten...

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How it goes...

4/15/2014

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I really like just testing myself to see what I can do.
Here is a test drive for you through my though process this time around.

I saw a painting of flowers in a bowl.

Hey!

I have bowls!

I like flowers!

I have collected these vintage enamel bowls for a long time.

They are Cathrineholm
designs from Norway.

Tried out an idea on the iPad....

I thought I would paint an idea of a vintage grass cloth wallpaper on the canvas.

Not looking so good here...

That orange was just not the right color.

I painted the orange over to a deeper color and put in the pattern.

Used my paint filled squirt bottle to go around the shape of the bowls again and outline the diamond patterns.

Added the greenery.

I had to leave this to dry last night and it really bugged me, cause this looks pretty ugly in this stage.

Here is where I went lickety-split fast to add the flowers.

I did not want to overthink the petals - so I made myself go fast fast fast!

Then added another reddish color on top of the first petal speed fest.

Added some lighter orange highlights and then used the black squirt bottle of paint to quickly add a flowery shape to each red-orange splotch of flower.