Splash Ballerina
Splash Ballerina 9"x12" ...
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Zebra
Well today is date day with my hubby, and since it is a beautiful day, might be the last this year before we get cold and rainy again, we are going to picnic in the park. We are fortunate to have a beautiful state park not far from here that has ruins of mills destroyed during the Civil War. They also created, in modern times, a reservoir from the rapids that ran the turbines for the mill. So posting early so I can enjoy fresh air, turning leaves and my hubby - not necessarily in that order!! Here is this week's experiment, this zebra is in copper leaf except for the eye and the nose. I am out on the nose and am seriously thinking I am going to put the nose to copper leaf - but before I do what do you think? I am thinking right now the gold leaf which I didn't like, covered with several glazes makes your eye go right to the nose and really the eye should be the focal point I think. Thanks much for stopping by and have a great weekend.
Autum Leaf
Originally I wasn't going to post this, but have had such a good reaction, thought I would do,so. This is another attempt at figuring out how to use copper leaf. I like the color,of the copper almost better than the gold, but remember the gold I Have is a liquid gold paint and really doesn't have the same refractions. Walked In our neighborhood and the leaves are just starting to,change, so magnificent knew I had to try to get it on paper Thanks for stopping by and take a look.
Poppies
I feel like a bit of color and like the graphic nature of this piece. Although I think it is softened by the flowers. Thanks to Rosemary Clark on PMP for the poppies to kind of use as a reference. I find now that I really don't see the final product until the end, just like you, until that point I am only trying to paint shapes. Mostly it surprises me to see that yep, it does kind of fit together better than it looks like while it is in process. I think this might be the first of two pictures that were meant to hang together, but could still stand just as a single picture. I am working my way up to doing a triptych. This is the first pass of the design and practice on painting the flowers, while I am trying to decide if I will like it enough to buy two gallery wrapped canvases to do the final paintings on. I still haven't found really reasonable prices on frames, but have a new option I need to check out. I think even on paper it would ...
