I am so excited for spring! It's the time of year that births creativity and ideas. Last year about this time I discovered the joy of painting outdoors. I decided I wanted to start painting again and so I went to Barnes and Nobles, looked at a few art magazines and found some inspiration, walked a few doors down to Michael's Craft Store and bought new brushes, canvas, and paints oils, and acrylics. After spending a LOT more money than I planned I came home and grabbed an old comforter threw it out in the yard laid out my paints, blended my acrylics, got a mason jar with some water and started painting. I also discovered a "technique" if you will. Painting with your hands is kinda cool, it feels cool, and it actually looks awesome. This abstract flower painting I made, was done mostly with my hands, and by dripping or splatting the paint covered brush at the parts of the canvas i wanted to add texture to. It is probably the first painting that I made that I am genuinely proud of. It's pretty big about 3x5 feet and it's going above our bed.
Now that it's getting warmer out I'm gather up ideas, and cutting pictures and making a list of the projects I want to make this spring which include more paintings, finding a picnic table and some mis matched wooden chairs that I can paint different colors for our patio, and some wooden crates for tables, I want to make a stained glass panel for our kitchen window, and I'd like to make an "outdoor" painting on some plywood, something I can use outside on the patio. FUN FUN FUN!!!! Where's the sun? I have things to create!
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