this is today's effort in its stages {unfinished}. i may have been influenced by the grey day outside using the muted blue/green/grey. i'm not a fan of the actual grey day, moodwise, but i do love how it makes the all the other colours in the world pop out.
this one is on stretched linen. i'm now a convert to linen! i've only painted on canvas before and i really love the texture and feel of this linen compared.
do you have anything fun planned for the end of week??
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Ohh, how I loe to see your work in progress! If you are insprired by a grey day, what does a sunny day look like? It looks so alive and happy to me! :) Happy weekend!
Beautiful work!
hi from the etsy forums ~*~
I love seeing your work in progress, and I know what you mean about grey days. I live in Arizona, so we get a grey day once every three months or so.
I think I'm starting a new project - hopefully this weekend or early next week. I found a really cool quote by David Bowie, and it is driving me crazy to make a painting full of stars.
Have a good one!
I've been too cheap to paint on linen because I'm afraid I'll really like it and then not be able to go back to canvas :) Those look like nice deep stretcher bars too...I love how a deep canvas pops off the wall.
I really love the way the bands of color are blending into each other. I could never get any of that nice subtle stuff to happen when I tried acrylics, which is why I switched to oils. Um, this is acrylic, right?
Janelle
thanks guys :)
janelle - not to be advertising for golden, but i had the same issue re acrylics and used to paint with oils for that reason - golden behave a little more like oils! i love them. mine are the liquid ones but you can get an 'open' range that stay wet longer, so even more like oil.
know what u mean re linen - i found these ones at a local stretchers who make small affordable ones from leftovers . . .
have a good wkend!
I've noticed those little Golden liquid bottles in some of your work in progress pics and I've been wondering how they felt to work with...I suppose I could always try a couple of colors and see what I think. It also seems like it would be much easier to do multiple layers with acrylic. I've been sticking with an all-at-once approach lately with oils to avoid all that crazy fat-over-lean chemistry nonsense :)
Can you tell I miss painting classes and looking over everyone's shoulder and asking them about their paints, brushes, etc etc ?
Janelle
Very cool, I like how you do your work in stages. I could take a lesson from that. I usually just jump into things and see how they turn out. :)
i really love this!
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