new painting Tag

This was inspired by a bunch of cornflowers that my mom brought me a few years ago.  They were such an intense blue it felt like my eyes were seeing them wrong.  I toned them down a little bit for the painting because I think they would have looked...

It must be because it's spring.  My head is bursting with colours and ideas.  That's often the case.  It's so distracting!  But usually I walk around with those colours and ideas circling in my head and waiting their chance to get out.  Add spring into the mix...

Yay! A day to paint!And with spring (perhaps even summer, if I wish real hard?) showing itself I'm taking a swing into flowers.  These are chives.This is an echinacea flower that I painted huge before, but this time it's much smaller.I really enjoyed playing with...

The other morning I sat down at my desk in a big funk,  an off start to the day,  my head running in circles, a bunch of things needing doing,  and a jumble of ideas over what to do first.  I pulled out my little...

So I did manage to do some painting over the holidays, but it's mostly been a time of trying new things and hoping that although it might be not quite right right now -- chuckle -- it might lead to good things in the future! Right?And of course, being...