Girl Gone

This often happens to me.  I love a painting when I paint it, then I never finished said painting, then I decide I don't "feel" it any more.  

That is what happened with my girl I created in Jodi Ohl's class.  I loved her ~ I could see her turning in to a princess of fire and strength....but after I left her class (which I thoroughly enjoyed) at Art Is You, I just couldn't feel it any more.  I kept her on my floor staring at me, hoping inspiration would come, but nothing like my initial fire & ice princess thoughts ever came.  

So I decided she wasn't meant to be...

I began randomly laying paint on her with patterns, fingers, stencils and sprays. I added more texture and turned the canvas every so often.

I saw a flower and started painting it out.  Then a bird.

Instead of a princess of fire and ice, she became a garden of joy! :)

 Here are some close-ups:

You can see here I allowed parts of the original background to peek through.

Hope you enjoyed this photo progression!

Progression of a painting

I often sit down to paint and have no idea what I am "feeling" or "seeing".  It has truly been the case of late.  I started this painting and immediately it became a bouquet of flowers.

I actually liked it at this point. It reminded me of an impressionistic bouquet of flowers.  Very soft and subtle.

But then, I added and added and I hated it.

So in an attempt to rescue it, I started painting "out" things.  A heart?

Nah...wasn't feeling the heart thing.  I added in more green thinking it reminded me of a field of wild flowers now.

But, then it got very chaotic again.  I wasn't seeing enough balance and it was too much all the same size flower for me. So there it sat ~ until...

it became an owl. Of course.  She was wiser than me and knew I had to come to her slowly!

So maybe you have a painting, project, or something in your life you are trying to form.  Keep on trying and eventually it will come to you!  I think I am going to try and re-create the first bouquet and leave it alone!

What will it be? A photo progression of my art in the making.

Here is a piece I have been working on this week. Any ideas from this what it will become?

I started off with a canvas and some homemade papers, gelli prints and hand painted tissue paper.

Slowly I begin to add my layers of paint.

Do you see what I see?

Yet?

What do you think?  He measures 24"x 48" and is for sale for $425.

Hope you enjoyed!

What will it be?

Here is a piece I finished this week... (well, it's not finished in THIS photo)

Any ideas what I created from this background?  What do you think I saw?  What do YOU see?

Leave me your guess in the comment section and be sure to tune in tomorrow's post to see what transformed!