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    Palm painting

    October 18, 2008 - By 


    After a morning spent thirfting, I decided to play a bit this afternoon.
    I know that my hubby was crossing his fingers that the front lawn would be mowed when he returned but that’s not likely to happen. Sorry sweetie!

    I used my “Just for Fun” AB to practice another tropical scene. I’m not satisfied with the one I created a while back for our upstairs bathroom. I have the vision of what I’d like it to look like but have yet to decide the medium. Maybe collage or another painting..who knows. It may be totally mixed media.

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    Dream

    September 22, 2008 - By 


    I was compelled to create last night so I started with an old book cover. I layered papers and gesso down. The new gesso I have is quite thin…not happy with that! I just had to call it a night since it wasn’t drying very quickly.

    This morning I put on the squares. Over them I put down white tissue paper. Then came the paints.

    It started to feel very dream-like to me, hence the words. Scattered around the painting are these words: Escape, Imagine, Freedom from reality and Let go.

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    Flower canvas board

    August 4, 2008 - By 

    This canvas has had many different lives.

    It started out as a sign for my boy’s room which I never finished after it took an ugly turn.
    I set it aside for a very long time.

    Deciding to try to give it another life, I painted over his name only to have the texture accentuate the letters instead. Frustrated, I again set it aside.

    After a few weeks, I covered the whole thing with sheet music and a couple of other papers then painted blue. Finally the letters were obscured.
    Again it was set aside for a long time.

    Today it became this.

    I guess the lesson for me was to not give up. Eventually the canvas told me what it really wanted to be.