Dear Friends,
Howdy! Every so often - say every 8-10days I have to do some painting, no real need or purpose just a desire to make lots of painty mess with paper and canvas. I find that to work with such freedom is very invigorating.
This messy bit of paper is actually my palette. I use oven bake for my blobs of paint and when I have finished I just moosh it all together and then when it is dry I press it ready for a one day project. They look so detailed and take all of 2 minutes to make!
These are sections of the canvases I did today.
I think that if you can see the details up close it helps to analyze what else you may need to add - although perhaps you might see that it is time to STOP!
Knowing when to stop is a really big issue I think all artists face. It is so easy to gild the lily as they say and after hours of working and fussing and nit picking and adding a little of everything you own, you don't really like it. Funny that!
Lastly - this is a teeny corner of the garden today. How gorgeous that all these shades are on the same plant. In Australia it is called Pigface - really awful for such a beautiful specimen.
Wishing everyone a splendid week.
Love Elizabeth
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These snippets would make beautiful individual paintings just as they are Elizabeth.
ReplyDeleteLovely! It's such fun to play!
ReplyDeleteThe photo of your little plants is lovely.
ReplyDeleteI think they are called portulaca.
Pigfaces are pretty too, but they look a bit different.
Cheers.
Dolores
Dear Dolores
ReplyDeleteYou are so right! We have both plants in the garden and this is certainly the porulaca.
Thanks for looking!
Elizabeth