I call this series 'Finally getting off my ass and actually creating something'. Ok, I've created something before but last weekend I was encouraged to buy 7 canvases and a cheap 5 pack of paint brushes. There was a point where I was drawing a lot, in a sketch book, Bristol Pad, Drawing Pad, you name it..but like many other things I start...I simply forgot about it for a while...or just don't do it consistently enough.
So tonight, I've decided to throw some paint on a canvas and see what sticks (it was much harder than I thought!). I don't remember the last time I painted on canvas, maybe 10 years ago..but anyway, I grabbed my trusty tackle box of art supplies with acrylic paints, plastic canister, paint brushes and sponges and proceeded what many of my loving friends call 'art'.
I squirted the blues and red paints out of pots of paint and soaked the sponge in water and smeared it all over the canvas to make a background color.....so I had my blues, and then decided on a concept....hmm...'jellyfish!...brilliant.
yeah right, looked like white flying apple pie saucers...no good...so I just painted over it...
Then i decided...hmm how about a cool landscape? Yeahhhh one with a bridge and cool shadows....or maybe a castle...ok...you know what that looked like? Remember when you were a kid and played pick-up-sticks and all the sticks were just jutting out of odd places after you threw them up in the air? There you go. Complete mess
Three times a charm I said since it was my last attempt since I wasn't sure how much the poor canvas (and now my blue painted fingers) could take. So I decided to go organic abstract.
It was a blend between a serene blue with a bold contrast of tree and bubble shapes.
And finally I knew it was a start. Thanks to
Beautiful Losers playing in the background to inspire me, I began to feel hopeful again.....here goes..1 down, 6 to go
PS don't mind the cable and I don't know why I do all my work in the living room and on the floor, but who cares right?