"Breakfast in bed". Yep! This is the last progression shot. Same painting. Interesting how they evolve isn't it? Below is how it last looked when I shared. This piece is 30"x30" on gallery wrapped canvas. For further info, you can see SaatchiArt.
Below is how it would look in a room:
And in other things that make me happy: interesting colour drips on my studio floor.
Uh-oh. Back to the drawing board. The bottom photo (which is how it looked last night) is looking better than what I did today. Hate it when that happens. I've got my work cut out for me tomorrow.
Today's painting: a lemon danish. Usually my props do not appeal to me in the slightest after I've finished painting them but this was an exception. A mouthful of zingy, lemony goodness. Mmm.
Someone brought donuts to work so I stole some of the leftovers to paint. In case anyone is interested in donut matters, they are from Tim Hortons.
And in other creative news I have taken on the InkTober Initiative in which I intend to do a pen sketch each day of the month. I want to thank Crystal Cook for telling me about it : ) It began in 2009 by Mr. Jake Parker as "a challenge to improve my inking skills and develop positive drawing habits. It has since grown into a worldwide endeavor with thousands of artists taking on the challenge every year."
My newest painting: Love Letter. It's a good size - 36"x30". Acrylic on gallery-wrapped canvas. For further details or to see how it would look hanging in a room, please click here.
P.S. I just took a screen shot from Saatchi's website so you can get the idea:
The last couple of weeks I was working on multiple paintings to varying degrees of success. In between I kept going back to this one, playing with different concepts, painting a little differently than my norm - experimentation mode as it were : ) So here is the outcome - a whole bunch of 80s energy going on...
12x16 / acrylic on canvas / $355
"The Yarn Shop" - my latest painting. It's been a tough slog the past couple of weeks but I finally moved past it. It seems to happen quite regularly ; )
12"x12" / acrylic on gallery wrapped canvas / $240.
I'm not trying to use Throwback Thursdays as a crutch but I've had limited studio time this week and the painting I'm working on has been a toughie! So here is one of my favourite paintings. I love this one because it began as an (unsuccessful) landscape and ended up taking on a life of its own. As I painted over my previous work I began to see it emerge as an abstract. At this point I followed my intuition and just thought about form, movement and colour. It taught me so much.