Blast from the Past!

Today I am linking with Sunday Sketches (face drawings) and with 30 Paintings in 30 Days with the same faces painted.

This morning it was pouring with rain so I thought I would do a bit of blog hopping, one site I was visiting had a link to U tube and the next thing I knew I was listening to ‘Girls just want to have fun’  by Cyndi Lauper.  The video had her prancing about with total abandonment.  I just loved her colours and attitude so I got one of my gessoed boards and gave myself the task of drawing her within the time of the video, I think about 4 minutes. 

  

I really liked doing this so looked on the side bar and found Sinead O’Connor’s Nothing Compares to You.  This was easier as the video mainly just showed her head.

Next I glanced down and saw Bryan Adams ‘Everything I do I do just for you’.  I just love his gravelly voice!

I didn’t want to make the paintings portraits of these people they were just a base to work on.

I gave myself 10 minutes to work on each. They are in acrylic on gessoed mount card (7 x 9 inches).  So here are Paintings 4 and 5.  I will do Bryan Adams Face for Painting 6 tomorrow.  It was great to listen to some music I hadn’t heard for years.

 

This exercise has given me the idea of doing something like this for the 29 Faces in February challenge.

Have a great day everyone.

WIP and 30 Paintings in 30 days - 2 & 3

Work In Progress

 

In the beginning of December I started a large acrylic in the manner of Flora Bowley.  I wanted to step outside of the habit of planning paintings as that method wasn’t working as I found I lost interest in finishing and I am a bit tired of all the unfinished canvas littering the place up.  Perhaps if I painted intuitively I wouldn’t lose interest?  I really struggled with it at first; I just couldn’t see where it was going there was nada in my head.  I left it for a week and then one morning I looked at it and saw these figures and I was off.  The above was as far as I got before Christmas.  The middle bothered me, but hey I am learning to let it evolve.  I kept seeing another figure but something inside of me shouted no.

Then yesterday I had some wet paint left over from my small paintings I am doing for the 30 paintings challenge.  After an hour’s paint play I had come up with this below.

I have actually done more to it today, but the light is bad we are in the middle of a big dark thunderstorm so I will post more about my progress next week.  I think it is very derivative of Flora Bowley, but I am not going to worry about that as I discovered that my first journal pages after seeing Teesha Moore’s work were derivative as well, but in a few weeks my own particular style emerged.  I am sure my style will emerge with these bigger paintings.  One thing is sure I haven t lost interest I can’t wait to get started on it each morning.  I just have to remember the “ugly teenager” phase soon passes (thanks Denthe for that!).

30 Paintings in 30 Days

No 2 - Bad Girl?

 

I had to laugh the other day while I was visiting some friends, they had their granddaughter of 6 years staying, she came into the lounge with such a guilty look and when asked what she had been up to she drew herself up and puffed her chest out and said, “Nothing much Nan”, then added, “the floor in the bathroom is flooded and the shampoo bottle has fallen in it and there are lots of bubbles!  I didn’t do it!”  It was the defiance on her face that got me.

No 3  Garden Ladies

This was today’s painting, I am not happy with it more needs to be done but I have to brood on it for a bit.  I decided to post it because if I am to complete 30 paintings I can’t be a perfectionist.  I have got to be real and show warts and all.  Perhaps it needs a bigger canvas this is only 8 x 10 inches.

Have a great day everybody, see you again soon.

Linking to

Kirstin and Eva’s Paint Party Friday

And Leslie Saeta’s 30 Paintings in 30 Days

New Beginnings

Happy New Year Everyone!

For my Painting No 1 of Leslie Saeta’s 30 Paintings inJanuary 2014 I have chosen to dance the New Year in.  The painting is acrylic, on a canvas panel 8x10 inches.

Looking through my files the subject of dancing appears often as inspiration for my art.  It is strange as I hate dancing, well let’s say I have multiple left feet and feel self-conscious,  one new year’s party I dragged my dancing partner into a log fire as I tripped over my feet!  Got a nasty burn too!  So why have I been painting dancing lovelies over the last few months?  I think something is telling me to tackle my fears, the unknown and look twice at what I have rejected.  Or maybe the universe is telling it is now my time to dance in the light?  Lose my inhibitions and go for it!

So my word for 2014 is Dance (like nobody is watching!).