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I was compelled to create last night so I started with an old book cover. I layered papers and gesso down. The new gesso I have is quite thin…not happy with that! I just had to call it a night since it wasn’t drying very quickly.
This morning I put on the squares. Over them I put down white tissue paper. Then came the paints.
It started to feel very dream-like to me, hence the words. Scattered around the painting are these words: Escape, Imagine, Freedom from reality and Let go.
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 had a chance to play a bit yesterday.
I mostly worked on putting the tip-ins I’ve received together with my own pages in a patriotic theme book. I think I still have a page or 2 coming so I can’t say I’m done with that one yet.
Although I did make one new spread in my just for fun altered book.
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!
We’ve wanted a chimenea for years but the kids were just too young and it would have been dangerous. We finally decided they are old enough so I went with a neighbor and bought this one. I bought a terracotta saucer to put on top to keep the rain out but we pondered how to keep the rain out the big “mouth” in the front.
I did some thinking then sketching and came up with an idea.
Hubby scoffed at me, so I took it upon myself to make it myself. I started it yesterday but was unable to complete it before he got home. I hid the whole works because I didn’t want him to see it until completed. Boy is he going to be surprised when he gets home!!
Project cost: $0.00 I only used items we already had around the house.
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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