Dancing Again

Do you ever do a sketch or draw on the canvas the layout for a painting and then are reluctant to paint over it as you know that you will not be able to get the essence of the drawing.  This is what happened to me this morning.  I have been doing work based on the poem I blogged about last week for ICAD and SOC.  I was flipping through a magazine and saw an ad that gave me an idea for a girl dancing inside her heart.

I hadn’t used the canvas I planned for SOC (a 10in x 12in) My immediate thought was …yes!  So while I was having my coffee I drew this lovely.  I was so pleased with her, I didn’t want to paint over as I knew I would not be able to capture that movement.  Der… that’s what you have cameras for!

So this afternoon I got brave and put brush to canvas.  I was right I have lost that look.  But I think she is not too shabby.  Got more work to do, but she is getting there. 

 For your convenience the verse that inspired this canvas is;

she waits

to dance

in the rooms

of our heart

that are closed

dark and cluttered

I will post my ICAD cards tomorrow, and if you are interested in my SOC 2013 she is here.

For the moment, I am linking to Paint Party Friday, I hope to get around as many of you as possible tonight and tomorrow.

 

Summer Of Color - Week 1

Sometimes what you plan doesn’t happen.  I had planned to do whimsy paintings for SOC, in line with my ICAD work.  I was mucking around with my acrylics on an old painting trying to work out how to combine the colours of Citrus Green and Turquoise, this week’s colours for SOC, when the lovely above appeared.  I thought she fitted the quote from the poem I am using; I just had to enter her, even though she's an old painting, I have given her a new look and some poetry to dance to.

Take a look at what all the others are doing with the scrummy colours of Citrus Green and Turquoise at Kirstin’s Summer Party.  Why not join in?

Linking with Kirstin of Twinkle, Twinkle LikeA Star fame and her Party Summer of Colour.

 

Home

 

Home means a lot of things, my house is my home, my sanctuary.  However I have a real pull to the area where I spent my childhood and which still is my spiritual home.  I grew up mainly in small contry towns.    I had a blessed childhood roaming the bush and the valleys and riding with my brother and sister along little country roads.  When I was living in Europe, I would get very homesick for the bush and ocean, and when it got to the point of not being able to see crashing waves on TV without bursting into tears, I knew it was time to return.  While I don’t live near my childhood home I know it is within reach.

I had started this water colour in my art journal a while ago and decided to finish it for this challenge.  I was so pleased with it that I couldn’t bear to write or add embellishments, so I scanned it and added them in Photoshop!

I am entering this in Susi’s Art-Journal Journey's monthly challenge.  The prompt this month is ‘home’ of course!