Painting Outdoors

I'm so sorry those dumpsters are in the way. I keep trying to find a way to block them from view.

 

This visit was a chance to show one of my sister's the paintings I'd been working on the last few Months. She'd seen photos but that's just not the same experience as seeing the texture and everything in person.

Excuse the extra pictures here. I just haven't figured out how to remove them yet.

It seems that every time I get used to the way things work the tech people change them.

I hope that everything is running smoothly for you. I'd like your reading experience to be a pleasant one.

 Sometimes get togethers are just to visit, sometimes we paint our own things, occasionally we choose a project and as this time, sometimes we just evaluate the results.

The important thing is to encourage each other and keep the creativity coming.

Knife Painting and the Evolution of a Painting

I found myself quite frustrated with that Iris painting and rubbing the whole thing out so I grabbed a more more canvases and my painting knives and began just stabbing and slashing bits of color at them until I relaxed and began to feel better.

I like the unexpected nature of the results and the uninhibited nature of the process because you can never tell where it will lead you. 

I often get ideas for great paintings from an unusual color combination or composition of shapes.

 That small canvas and it's combination of greens began to suggest a garden so I'm going with that idea and attempting to do a painting of my front flower bed.

Once I'd decided to paint my garden on that green canvas the work went quickly.

Each day I give the other Canvases another try hoping to find a color combination that I like.

The Finished Painting