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Just thought I’d give a sneak peek at what I’m working on.
I haven’t done any painting for quite some time.
There are lots of layers on this canvas…I just keep painting over the old with gesso and starting over. Talk about getting my money’s worth out of this canvas!
Lately I’m all about the flowers.
Not sure why but they seem to show up in everything I do.
I’ve also noticed that I’m using lots of geometric shapes.
Circles and squares mostly.
This is on a 8×8 deep edge canvas. The edges have torn book pages around them then were washed with the same green as the polka dots on the front.
There are several layers of paint and papers on the background that most likely show much better in real life than the scan. The flower is cut from pages I’ve been tearing from my altered scrapbook.
This canvas has had many different lives.
It started out as a sign for my boy’s room which I never finished after it took an ugly turn.
I set it aside for a very long time.
Deciding to try to give it another life, I painted over his name only to have the texture accentuate the letters instead. Frustrated, I again set it aside.
After a few weeks, I covered the whole thing with sheet music and a couple of other papers then painted blue. Finally the letters were obscured.
Again it was set aside for a long time.
Today it became this.
I guess the lesson for me was to not give up. Eventually the canvas told me what it really wanted to be.
I can finally reveal the full picture from the sneak peek I gave last week.
Theresa got her gifts in the mail and is very happy, so I’m happy too!
I made this 5×5 canvas piece for a friend that rescues chickens. Seriously!
She’s giving me eggs so I figured I’d make her a little something in appreciation.
In case you can’t read the fortune by the “C” is says Get off to a new start, come out of your shell. I thought it was mildly appropriate. :)
I hope she likes it!
I’ve been wanting to give our bathroom a real tropical feel instead of just the typical, boring shells it is now. I’ve been looking around for just the right artwork to make that happen. Then the thought struck… Why not try and paint a tropical scene myself?!? 
This is my first landscape. I’m really happy with it, now I just need a frame.
At my dear hubby’s prompting…I added steam to my coffee. It does look better.
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