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Whenever I paint I try to have another paper or canvas or something to wipe the excess and leftover paint from my main project. I really liked the wispy circles and soft colors. I recently heard an artist talk about not following in love with a background because so much gets covered up. This one really changed.
Completely different direction. I wasn’t sure if I liked it at all at this stage.
I brought back the circles and started to like it again. But I was stuck with where to go from here.
My word for 2012 came to my rescue (or the giant letters I am altering came to my rescue). This word reminds me to just start- not try to plan it all out, make it perfect- just start. So, that is what I did since I was stuck as to where to go next.
I traced the letters and put white paint to push the background to the background.
Red gelato around the letters to make them pop out a bit and purple watercolors around it.
I consider this a work in progress. It doesn’t feel finished yet and I am not sure why. What do you do when this happens to you?
Lately, I have been exploring how I perceive the world and how that impacts me. Art has been a great tool for this. One of Julie Balzer’s stencils reminded me of eyes – perfect for where my mind seems to be going lately.
In the video I use Dick Blick gloss polymer to seal the pan pastels. I love that I had such a slick surface to work on with the oil pastels because it let me “erase” easily. I may use this to seal more often instead of using a spray fixative which has to be sprayed outside.
The bunny hopped into my art when I didn’t even expect a visitor! I was stuck and stalled- feeling very uncreative so I just grabbed a paper and pencil and drew random lines all over it. Then a few colors to start filling them in. That’s when the bunny appeared. He didn’t bring me chocolate – he brought me something better- inspiration!
I found the bunny but then had that frozen feeling- no inspiration and no idea where to take it next.
I was getting frustrated so I decided to try something I rarely do – used black as the background. I totally hated it – even a day later. Yuck.
I cut out the bunny and tossed the black. I found another background I made long ago.
A bit of pan pastel and a Julie Balzer stencil. I tend to fill the entire page with a pattern so this time I decided to only do part of the page.
Colored in the leaves with Crayola crayon and gelatos for the flowers.
White oil pastel to make the flowers pop a bit more than they were.
Added the cut out bunny and a new black line around it.
Added Easter related words to the bunny with a Pitt pen.
My kids are not little any more but you’d think they were 4 years old since they have made it very clear they really really really want our Easter traditions to continue- so we’re cooking up an egg hunt to challenge them. Every year we have a different theme to the egg hunt and crazy clues to find the eggs. (Why did we start this? Should have just hidden eggs.) I wonder if they will still be over early Easter morning when they are 35!
Hope you had a wonderful Easter!
Linking up with Creative Every Day and Inspire Me Monday- if you have a moment stop by these great sites for a bit of creativity.
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Whenever I paint I try to have another paper or canvas or something to wipe the excess and leftover paint from my main project. I really liked the wispy circles and soft colors. I recently heard an artist talk about not following in love with a background because so much gets covered up. This one really changed.
