Week 7 Update

It's already seven weeks into this year of living vicariously through creativity. This week, I got focused on getting re-focused if that makes sense. Some ideas about what direction to go into next or what to re-do so that I can get more versed with a technique is pushing-pulling me. I am in the process of redoing a painting that I completed several weeks ago. I will show it when its done, maybe even today!In the meantime today I sat outside with mom and did a study of a Monarch on an echinacea blossom.It was a gorgeous day. Humidity is gone for now..

The other painting I finished this week is an abstract landscape that I finished yesterday. Acrylic with tissue paper texture. I got the idea of the very high horizon from Celebrate Your Creative Self

I think I will try something like this again, but see if I can move from realistic to abstract in the scope of the painting.

While searching for ideas for how to work with coloured  inks when I came upon a website for a collective of "daily painters". Wow! This group has set a goal for them selves to complete a painting a day and share it. Not too ambitious you say, well think again. It requires a great deal of freedom of time commitments as well as self-motivation. I am thinking of seeing if I can challenge myself that way. It would require a lot of re-focusing of my time and priorities. As I write this I realize that I'm not there yet technique mastery wise. But that is where I want to be once I find my specific voice and song.