Finding/Making time to be creative

A couple of weeks ago, my husband came with me to do some grocery shopping.  We always have fresh flowers on our kitchen table.  It was his "job" to select some flowers.  He chose combo of red and yellow roses - perfect!

I used them as inspiration for a little 6x8 painting (acrylic)       

my photograph

Heavily textured gesso on canvas board.  Using only a single brush, first pass with color

Added dimension to the flowers using Liquitex Heavy Body acrylics smeared on with miniature spatula

                                          

And so it begins...

Having fun creating an acrylic background for an oil painting the subject matter of which is still to be decided.  You and I will both have to wait and see what comes of it...the layers make it much richer even though by the end of the piece most of will most likely covered up.

Accentuate the Positive...

Having fun with mixed media: acrylics, oil paint sticks, oil paints, charcoal. 

Accentuating the Positive - she POSITIVELY has a big nose!