🥀 Tulipa

 

016 Tulipa

Today I tried to paint some Tulips by copying a picture I found on the Pinterest website.  I have joined two Facebook acrylic painting groups, where I can show mine own artwork off, see what other people are doing and even ask the odd question or two.  

I think one of my next projects will be a Painting of one of my many animal photos.  

I have decided that this picture can be a nice present for Mum and Dad for Easter.

🐰🥚🐣🐤🐥🐇  

🎶 Love is like a grain of Sand

  015 'Love is like a grain of sand' 

from the 1982 song by Fleetwood Mac,  oh Diane

 

So, when I listen to Fleetwood Mac (as I often do) a song from the1982 album 'Mirage' called 'Oh Diane' I imagine the singer to have had a recent relationship break up and he is walking alone along a quiet sandy beach, stopping every now and again to think of what might've been, and bending down to take a handful of sand and letting it slip easily through his fingers, he realises how easily Diane slipped away from him.

 

I have added the grains of sands and the 'Love'.  Now time to paint the stencilled lyric.

🏖 Out to Sea

013 Out to Sea

This project started out life as going to be another song lyric, 'Love is like a grain of Sand' from Fleetwood Mac's 1982 song  'oh Diane'  

This was to be the background and in the foreground, a hand and a mixture of sand and hearts slipping through the fingers as the next line of the song implies.  However this background was far too good in my opinion to cover up with a hand.  So I am keeping it like this.  

The Fleetwood Mac lyric, or another, will return at some point when I maybe have a better vision to accompany it.

Good call I believe.

 

🎶 On a Dark Desert Highway

 

012 'On a dark, desert highway'

The opening lyric to Hotel California a 1977 song by the Eagles.

 An Eagles song Lyric.

That's the background done.

Here I am adding the finer details

🎶 Somewhere you feel free

 

011 'Somewhere you feel free'

From Tom Petty's 1994 song 'Wildflowers'

I want to do something very different today.  

I wanted to do a Tom Petty lyric.  This one is from the title track of the 1994 Wildflowers album.  

This isn't completed yet, I want to add some simple Wildflowers and try to create the feeling of a meadow in a gentle breeze on a Summer's evening.

⛵ Sea at Sunset

 

010 Sea at Sunset

I am going to do my own version of the picture shown on the Laptop that I found on the Pinterest website.

I had a canvas board that I yesterday painted with Magnolia emulsion.  I had previously (a couple of years ago) tried painting something purple on it.  I thought rather than waste it I could reuse it.

This photo was taken after painting the Sky and Sea.  Next is the Black bits, but I'm a little nervous that this bit could easily go wrong.

It is now complete.  This has to have been one of the easiest pictures to do.  I will get a better photo tomorrow in daylight.

Its not too bad at all.  I need to do more like this.  

When I showed my boys they were amazed that it took me just one hour to do this one.

🐣 Happy Easter

 

009 Happy Easter 1

So this is the beginning of an Easter Artwork.  It's also experimentally using Tape again.

I have prepared a canvas background in Naples Yellow.  Left it to dry and then taped a Crucifix shape here, ready to paint Black.

   

Then I painted the inside of the Crucifix twice in black and then let it dry.

I have cut up some tape to make it thinner and then divided the Crucifix into random segments.

Now I have painted all the segments and I will let this stand overnight as it is dark and gone a bit chilly in my Conservatory Studio.  

I have had to be really careful painting the small segments and not going over the lines.  

Until I take all the tape off I am not gonna know if, 

ONE this has worked at all.  

TWO how well it may have worked and THREE how much Bleed and Peel there is, if any.

We will have to wait and see but I can't wait to do this bit 🤩

20 March 2021

Here is the Easter Artwork this morning.  Some of the Red and Yellow segments are being a little stubborn and letting the Black through a bit.  I have lost count now how many layers they have had so now I am just gonna go for it.  

Time for the big Reveal.

I have been looking forwards to this bit.  I then did all the touching up areas, which was tedious but was well worth it for a crisp clean finish.

There is a lot of wispy lines on the stencil that I did use here but I was not happy with the result so I have gone over it all repainting those areas.

Before doing this stage on the one for mum, it will be a good idea to stick tape over the areas of stencil that I don't want.

This picture was taken after I had repainted it.