Well.
Actually two.
I painted both sides.
For now...
trimmings....
I finished up a canvas floor cloth. Well. Actually two. I painted both sides. I decided to put it in front of my kitchen sink. For now... I trimmed the rug and decided to use the trimmings.... To make some bracelets!
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I went to the Restore-store today to see if they got any more paint in lately. Found this can: I did not open the can to see exactly how pretty it is. I love surprises - so I am looking forward to seeing what someone considers "pretty yellow." Maybe they just meant - pretty yellow - like - "Hey! That paint is pretty darn YELLOW!" Who knows... I painted more layers on more canvases today. A few of the works in progress this week. Just a couple of days ago they looked like this: Time to head to Goodwill and get more working material this weekend....
I was getting down to just about my last Goodwill pre-painted canvas and look what a friend found for me today! Perfect timing! Perfect pal! I found myself working on 12 different canvases today, and I could have used more. I am going to have to tidy up and arrange thing better for laying out wet paintings to dry. I am running out of horizontal space. ![]() Here's a couple under my work table. These are still in progress... ![]() I found this rolling rack at the Goodwill outlet store for $5 and it is holding a few more '"in-progress" works that are drying. I finally finished another floorcloth today! I could not resist painting both sides. Something about that blank backside and me with all that paint and such... ![]() This was the first side and it seems a little bland in this photo - but it has some lovely details close up. ![]() This side is way different from the other side. Good thing you can't see them both at the same time! ![]() This gives you an idea of how it works on the floor.... I am not sure this is where I will use it - but ya never know! I found a lot of RED paint at the Restore-store and it has been fun to have so much of such a vibrant color. I was inspired by a photo I saw of a hand painted kimono and tried some new stuff the past couple of days. I liked the lines and circles. My painting today is not exactly "like" the kimono - but I am on the way to getting there. (at least in MY mind...) Here is one of my paintings from today. Side-by-side - they look nothing like each other, but in my mind, I was trying for a "fabric" of paint with layers underneath and a sort of patch-like material over the top. Like a paint-quilt? And will ya just LOOK at that stinkin' dent in the canvas that I did not notice before! Here is the other one I worked on today... Here on this one, I kinda got the impression of the round designs on the kimono.
I can hardly wait to see what happens tomorrow! For the past seven months all I have painted are circles and circles and more circles and variations on circles. I decided to forge ahead and paint not-circles. Ouch! That was not an easy thing to do. It was not easy not painting circles. I wanted to paint circles all over the top of this and had two pals tell me no. I took their advice and now it is kinda growing on me. This is about 8"X12" -ish. I then decided to go bigger and paint a floor cloth without circles. Ouch. Not painting circles was still painful. This measures about 4' X 3' and is very subtle from a distance and quite detailed up close. I got some great ideas from doing this that I will apply on the next floor cloth that I paint. Then. There was a painting that I had painted over and over and over and was still not happy about it, and it was hanging on the wall mocking me each and every minute I was in the painting studio. It would say, "Hey, I look like crap, and it is all YOUR fault. Bwahahaaaaa!" Dang painting. So today I decided to paint over it, yet again and the paint I picked did not obliterate the the last layers and then I took a sponge to wipe it all off again and something happened. I liked that something and experimented with it and, danged if it did not all come together and make a cool painting. Finally. I really like this one. It has cool details where I rubbed away some of the paint. Whew!
Hard to know when a painting is done and I am certain that this one is done done and done! I took my two big re-purposed paintings to the store where I consign mid-century furniture and put them up for sale. The woman who owns the store thinks that mid-century buyers might just like some big paintings that look good with the vintage furniture she sells. I hope so too! The one on the left , I called, "Happy Day" because it looks like fun. The other , I called, "All That Is" because it has everything. It wil be a very happy day, indeed, if this sells! I have to go thrift store shopping soon to get more paintings to paint over.
I have a couple of ideas I want to try out... Got this table at a garage sale a few weeks ago. Great shape to the table - but the wood is not in good shape... I decided to try to paint a piece of canvas and glue it to the table top. Should be interesting to see how the whole process goes. I finished putting on 5 layers of poly-acrilyc to seal the canvas and hope to cut it to shape tomorrow.
I like most colors. Most... Pink is not my favorite color.That is a nice way of saying that I really don't like pink. I bought a pink painting at thrift store to paint over and a funny thing happened... My son decided that he really liked this painting. I don't even think it is really even a good painting, even if it was a nice color. I have asked him several times over the past couple of months if I could have it to paint over. Nope - nope and nope. However, today I was able to negotiate a hard bargain with him. I had a canvas bag I was going to paint over and he really liked the I was able to trade this canvas bag for the ugly painting. It was not sure thing for a while - but the deal went through. The painting is gone forever and I will post a photo of it later when it is jazzed up a bit... I had a pal who was cleaning out her garage and had lots of leftover house paint in fun colors and called me to see if I wanted the acrylic paint.
Of course! I use leftover paint all the time in my paintings! Score! :) I thought it might be fun to post a few photos of what I have been up to... Before...After...I called this one Cataract Daisy. Before...After...I sold this one this week. I called it "sunken treasures."
I bought a canvas at Goodwill. A very LARGE Canvas. 6'X10' It was handy that it was already primed with a painting that I will simply paint over. I hope I don't go to Hell for this. Oh, Heck. Should be no problem as I don't even believe in Hell. Yep. That is one BIG canvas... Just got started....
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