Something’s Brewing for Christmas.

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I have never done a project of this kind. The length is just shy of 6 feet long and the height is right at 2 feet. I am going to install this outside of my home in order to share some Christmas Cheer. I am hoping this ends up looking like a Christmas Card. 😀 Cross your fingers for this girl!

A Nothing Day, and Not Even an Opening for a Haiku.

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Dear Diary, Today was a nothing day. Nothing in the heart to paint and nothing on that white canvas taunting me in the corner. Nothing on the stove cooking and nothing on the scale that resembles good news. Nothing on TV and nothing to tell my mom to watch. Nothing. But I paid my bills today. I watched, read, and listen the the news as much as I could tolerate, which was not much. I tried a mango. Yuck. But what is exciting is:

I am creating a series of small abstract paintings. It’s about people and the things they do. I want to capture the attitudes. I have my next drawing in mind, but tomorrow I am getting a tablet that I intend to use for drawing, so I am waiting to do the drawing and thumbnails. It will become painting seven. The pic below was supposed to be painting seven, but I can’t get to minimal forms. I will come back to it, in time.

This started in painter 6 then moved to microsoft’s paint. OMG I so don’t want to learn all the functions of a software! Give me pencils, smudgers, and color and paint buckets, and move them to the far corners, and I am a happy girl! Any suggestions on simple drawing software for windows would be appreciated.

Whirlpool of Wrapping Paper

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I have been quiet because I have not been painting.   This is typical for me.  But something else has caught my attention.  And this is typical for me too.  Christmas brought with it tons of wrapping paper and I got caught in a whirlpool of creative ideas wrapped around wrapping paper!  (Can I say wrapping anymore?)  All Paper.

 

 

Peek, But Not A Spoiler.

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I saw this technique that artist were doing with acrylic paint where they poured the paint and let is flow to whatever design it randomly made.  I really loved the result but did not like the complete randomness of the art.  So I began thinking about ways to keep the random design of the pour and to have art pieces that were not completely random.

I had previously drawn on canvas a lady’s face and so I thought how wild it would be for the acrylic pour to be her hair?  But how can I do that?  I began pouring, just randomly like I saw others do.  (However, I do not use silicone in the paint.  At least not until I find out from manufactures that it will not affect the longevity.)  So after pouring two very interesting abstracts, I tried to force some of my control over the next painting and totally messed up the randomness of the design that a flow gives.  So I stopped pouring but the problem of how to get the pour as hair still raged as a question in me.

So an idea came to me and the beginning of the Acrylic Pour Series had life.   The acrylic pours have been going on in between the Haiku/Poetry Series, Landscape Series, and (just added) the Cat Series and I expect it to continue going on just like the others.  I have purposely not shared the paintings because I want to unveil them all together and plan to do so at painting ten.  I have four completed.  So as a ‘Peek, But Not A Spoiler’, I have taken photos and created a computer made collage for you to see the pours included in the series to date.  I am excited about the paintings!  Enjoy!