The mood shifts on the swinger painting, day 2

I repainted the body of the camera and rounded the edges a bit more to better capture the look and style of the camera.

With my paints out again I couldn't resist "playing" with the background, finger painting as well as using brushes and pallet knives. As the layers of color build I stop wading around the edges and get ready to really dive into the painting. It will come off the easel and be worked flat on the table for a while.

Feelin' no pain

If the colors is this painting remind you of tie dye you see where I'm coming from. As I painted this i was trying to remember what it was like to be young and feeling no pain. Life seems to be much more of a challenge these days and it was nice to daydream a bit and take a mental vacation from my current pain level.
Art may not always heal but it sure can't hurt.

Painting over other paintings

I'd done this painting years ago in response to the horrors they were reporting on the TV news. Sometimes when there's nothing I can do about events themselves I can paint and that helps me process the emotions I'm going through.

Needless to say I don't always want these paintings around with all that powerful negative energy inside so I'll often paint something positive on top of it as a filter
or a safety valve.

This one is getting a sunflower to show that good things can (and often do) grow
from tragedy and loss so you see this is much more to me than a simple floral painting. It's a shout out at the world that says "no matter what we're still growing and something good will come of it."