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Be not afraid

4/25/2014

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

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The tool of "change."

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Fearless now!  No going back!

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Now I have two pieces to play with!

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First victim!

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Some odd painted white shapes....

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

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Flowers.  Yeah.  Flowers can cover up that ugly!

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Kinda looks like a face - with flower hair.   

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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!

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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!

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


They are Cathrineholm 
designs from Norway.

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Tried out an idea on the iPad....
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I thought I would paint an idea of a vintage grass cloth wallpaper on the canvas.  
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Not looking so good here... 


That orange was just not the right color.
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I painted the orange over to a deeper color and put in the pattern.

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

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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.


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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.

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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.

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I like it!

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I put it out on the front porch of my studio/gallery to dry.

Now I am off to make more!
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Where have all the flowers gone?

4/8/2014

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At first - it was just trying stuff out on the iPad....

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Then painted the idea....

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Then, it is just my nature to keep going and experimenting!

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In progress.

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This painting has been hanging around mocking me - so I decided to paint it over.

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That cat is so much better as flowers.


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