There are many paintings with sayings on them around these days. I like the idea. It seems to be quick and fairly easy to do. So I came up with m own. I was a bit unsure about the underpainting at first. I used different blues, some purples a couple of oranges and some white. Then I added in some iridescent purple. Whilst mixing the paints all over the canvas I did make 'mud' - oops. That's what I get for combining orange and purple. Oh well. I was also unsure if the letters I had would a) stick to the painted canvas, and b) not pull of any paint when I took them off. Luckily they didn't. They didn't stick down very well at the edges, so there is some bleed under. Must remember that for the next one I do.
This is what I came up with......
It kind of reminds me of winters first storm - snow and all. The phrase is from a book I have been reading lately - or rather a series of books (I'm onto #2) - you can probably guess which one.
The canvas is 61cm square - a good size for this. Now I want to do 'you are my sunshine' with a yellow top coat, 'love is in the air' with maybe a pink top coat.
Still not having satisfied my paint urge I got out the watercolours and had a play with them. I think I like them - the paints that is not necessarily what I did with them, though the red flower is not too bad.
I have since outlined the green splotch on the petal and given it legs - now it's a bug.
I have packed all my paints away for the time being, but they will come back out soon. I would love to be able to run paint classes from home - ones where everyone is given the same pattern and uses the same paint colours. We'll see about this venture......
