by the time i got home after a morning of obligations, it was after nine and i went right to my studio .... where i then painted for five hours .... i haven't had that many uninterupted hours in a long time ....
the picture above is of maps i painted .... those are the colors of the poppies on one of the paintings i completed .. i did a yellow map ... then added orange so got a yellowy orange map ... then added red and got an orangey red map ... and then did just red .... all because i don't really wash my brush .. i tried to just use up the paint... the next map, had i done one would have had to be pink or purple ....or back around to an orangey red ....
after my five hours of painting, a decorator came to see my paintings (all the ones i had to show, and four new ones) ... and she took four of them off show a client .... so the giant poppies got finished and then immediately left .... she also took a brand new nest ... and a bingo flower and a monopoly flower that i didn't do yesterday ....
interestingly, whichever of these she buys, if she buys them, need to be redone, because they are all on my inventory for the show i'm doing next week ... and i turned in the inventory already .... it is easier to do a painting though when you know the size and subject already .... when you don't have to bounce around inside your head and see what you feel like painting .... it is less angsy to paint what you are "supposed to paint" versus trying to feel what you want to paint .... it is also not as fulfilling/joyful/creative ... but that's ok...
yesterday i started ZERO paintings ... i worked on ones that were already begun ... i finished four .... and i destroyed a fifth ... it used to have a luscious turquoise background but i wrecked it ... it took me along time to realize i had wrecked it ... and to decide to quit trying to fix it .... and then i painted the whole thing green just to get the mess covered .... so next time i paint, i'll go in with white or buff or yellow to lighten it up ... cause right now it is too dark .. but at least the too dark bit is hiding the disaster! many years from now someone will look at it and say, she really built the canvas up with paint ... it's so thick .... we won't tell them it wasn't on purpose .......
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I love to hear all that you're working on and where you art is going. Love that you've just reused a mistake instead of hiding it in the recesses of your art room like I might do! lol Keep up the beautiful work!
there is never a ruined canvas....reuse, recycle, re purpose. Barbara and I collaged from about ten til afteer 4 today....much funand hilarity!
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