My sister, Beth is visiting from Georgia, and we have been doing some painting. I will let her share her own paintings - and I will share what I've worked on.
I looked at the paintings that I had begun but hadn't finished, and I found one that I had just blocked it, but I didn't like it; so I had set it aside and it had been in my unfinished pile for a month or two. Since I wasn't inspired to start anything new, I thought I would just mess around with that one.
Unfortunately, I didn't think to take a photo of it before I started. As I worked on it, slowly I became more excited about it. I worked on the background, then the pot, then the flowers, and then the leaves. Before I knew it, it was beginning to be something I liked.
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| 12 x 12, oil on gessoboard |
I really like the texture I get when I use the side of a flat brush to add paint to the canvas. I've done that on several paintings lately, and the look of it appeals to me. When I woke up this morning, I went upstairs to work on the painting a little more. When I had finished last night, I noticed that there were two places that were not covered with paint. So I went back over that this morning, and then worked on the flowers and leaves a little more, too.
I wanted to paint my goldendoodle, Cabbie. I looked at her and took a photo of her, and painted the following. Once I got the basic shape done, I didn't know what to do next. So I set it aside.
Earlier I had wanted to paint our church. So I got a photo of the church and sketched the following - filling in the base colors. However, once I got to this point, I wasn't sure what to do next! I don't want to even try to make a realistic painting of the church; rather, I want to paint an "impression" of it. Hmmm - I put this aside and will deal with it another time. And THAT is when I went back to the first painting above and finished that. I knew what to do to finish that one!
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