April Showers

The prompt at The Artist’s Playroom this week is "APRIL SHOWERS BRING MAY FLOWERS".  While that may not be true in my part of the world, we certainly have the rain!

Today I used a small canvas panel and acrylics to create this semi abstract painting.  I tore out the figure from paper and laid it over the canvas then painted with fingers palette knife and splattered to my heart’s content.  Then I lifted the figure off, some of the paint has seeped through but I think it created an interesting edge.

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TheArtist’s Playroom 

and 

Creative Every Day.

Fruit Salad!

Fruit seems to be dominating my work a bit lately!  My start off point for Mandarin Orange Monday entries are some photos of fruit growing in my garden - passion fruit, grapes and figs.

figs

grapes

passion fruit

First of all I played around with the passion fruit my favourite fruit of all time

 

Then I played around with the fig picture and got this

Then I merged it with the passion fruit and played a bit.

Then I played with the grape picture.

Then I added that to the passion fruit and fig picture and got these.

A lovely fruit salad wouldn’t you say?

Happy Mandarin Orange Monday every one.

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Creative Every Day