Art with a Bad Taste.

I cut of a big piece of canvas and put it on my work table and my intention was to make a big random background that I would paint over, and just reveal "bits" of it under the next layer.

I took out some templates that I had carved a few years ago and filled up the canvas.

OK.   Maybe a very abstract bird on top of that.  Then some, uh, bars, yeah, like the idea of a bird cage on top of that!   Oh!  I was going full steam ahead now!

Ewww. 


 That looked like crap. 
 
  Bad bad idea on top of
 horrible color choices. 


   I went home for the night, 
thinking that perhaps in the
 morning it would look better.

Nope.

Still crap.

Well, the price on the canvas I buy has more than 
doubled, so no wasting it allowed. 

So how to make it better?

I cut the canvas in half - cause there was just TOO much ugly to look at. 
 
 Sometimes, I can almost taste when colors and patterns don't jive and that one was like something from the forgotten reaches in the back of the fridge. 
 It was
 N A S T Y.   

I painted some flower 
pod things on top of it.

Getting better….

Like some mouthwash after barfing.

Here's the two halves.  

 I painted the background green to cover most of the icky colors and let just a shadow of them show through.  

 I was liking this and could hardly wait to paint the other half!

I will post a photo when I get 
to the studio today.

They came out great.