The Finished Painting

Here are the inspiration photo and the finished painting side by side. The important thing for me is that I capture the feel of that moment and not the exact look of a thing. Why go to all of the effort of painting just to create an exact copy? There are people that go in for that sort of thing but I'm just not one of them.

I enjoyed working on this and will head to my zazzle store to put it on a greeting card and a few other things as I decide what I'd like to paint next.

Progress on the painting, flower to frame

I don't remember how long this old iris drawing has been in this frame but I needed something to put the painting in and it will have to do for now.

I haven't decided what to do with the drawing yet. It's about 18 years old, maybe more.

This painting was just 3 years start to finish, I've got some that I've been working on for decades.

Finished Painting from Brushstroke Practice

I call this my "Gypsy Moths" because they remind me of the painted gypsy wagons I'd seen in old movies and television when I was a kid.

You can see I was a bit lazy and didn't bother with anything more ambitious than dots and comma strokes but I think the results are fun anyway, don't you?

 We'll go to the computer next and cut out each of the butterfly shapes so that I can use them on different projects or just resize or rearrange them to see how far I can push the design and how many different things I can do with it.

I can also paint over any of the areas that I'm not happy with yet.

The other thing that I'm considering at this point is adding more colors and brush strokes to the black areas.

The finished cat painting

I've got to say I enjoyed painting this acrylic a lot more than I did working the designs out in drawings and  watercolors. Time will tell how much I like the finished result but I loved working on it and that's the most important thing to me right now.

As always I'll experiment with the design on products on Zazzle to see what else I can do with it. Meanwhile I keep it with my other items for sale in the glass front cabinet in my dining room. We may put it up for sale on etsy but haven't decided yet

Finishing the first painting

The light really streams in here in the afternoon. Working in changing light is always a challenge.

There are still a couple of these in progress but I think the results are promising so far, don't you?

I'm planning to have a lot of fun with this image and am heading to Zazzle to see what I can make out of it.

Aftermath

There are a number of things that go through your mind when you stop working on a painting and as I hung that last one on the wall I began to wonder if I shouldn't change the tulips in the large painting next to it thinking that a set of related pieces might be more desirable to a buyer who'd trying to decorate a room.

I'm still contemplating it but took time to crochet myself a pot holder for the kitchen and started a scarf to use up the cone of white yarn left from my knitting machine days.

I've still got the machine but haven't been able to finish the studio well enough to set it up in there...at least not yet.

In the meantime I'm sorting things and cleaning off the work table so that it will be ready when we decide what we want to work on next.

Done and Hung

Finished tulip painting...or is it?

I left it out until morning and then couldn't resist adding some things to it. Six hours later it
was ready to hang.

Finished Painting of the Swinger Camera

I may continue to work on this from time to time but I've finished with it for now.