Isn't It amazing when finances seem to stop, you start to look for other items to paint on, or "repurpose" for your use? I had this old canvas from high school which was absolutely awful, and I found it the other day and said "hey, I could paint on that!" This woman and child morphed from it. There is not much from the background image which shows through, in fact, I am pretty sure I am breaking some sort of "rule" about painting on it, but, hey what the heck. I am using it as a study. Color has been buggin me lately, and so I am starting cool, and will eventually end up a bit warmer. We will see. This is also another Art Every Day Month submission. I am loving doing this! It makes me post much more regularly than I have in times past!
6 comments:
It's beautiful. Very creative. I think when you are being creative there no rules! Just go for it.
Wow this is such a tender and poignant portrait. It's my idea of heaven, snuggling in the dark with my babies!
Lovely! The colors and figures create such a peaceful mood.
Yes! ART IS ALIVE inside your soul! I am trying to see what it was in the background that you painted over. Whatever it is, it helps with the layers of time and layers of the human soul that keep adding to the depth of your work. NEVER STOP! It is an addiction that is good! The MORE you do, the more you want/have to do!
KUDOS
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Came over browsing from AEDm (haven't managed to participate this year but I had great intentions!)- just want to say your painting is lovely and if you're breaking a rule you are not alone as I have done the same thing! Even when I have other clean canvasses! Love the blues.
Wow, thanks everyone for the positive comments! I have added some warm tones...and will post soon. @Sherrie, @Kelly & @ Tammy, this particular painting started out with a floating mermaid in the center, surrounded by green green green. I pretty much obliterated her (as she was my former 17 year old self's idea of perfect human beauty), and am reclaiming the canvas as an almost 40 year old mother of two, realizing the beauty rests in the moment, not the skin. Thanks @after iris and @ anonymous, I hope the feeling I am trying to capture shows through. Now, off to upload the next step of this painting.....
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