I painted this green canvas fabric years ago. It's at least 5 or 6 years old. Four years ago it accompanied me to a SDA workshop I attended with Mary Ruth Smith. There I embroidered the larger circle inside the copper colored square and the odd shaped wavy circle outline in blue thread then stopped. It has been in my closet since that time sitting patiently just waiting on me to pick it up again. It shouted at me a few weeks ago so I began working on it. I added blue paint to the inner area outlined with the blue thread because I thought that area needed more attention and all the other embroidery stitches you see now. I like it better now so it may actually get finished!
I took a painting workshop with Dan Robinson back in February and we painted still life's. I wasn't happy with the painting I did in class but I liked the setup so I painted this 6" x 8" the other day using my original painting and the photographs that I took as reference. I like this painting much better than the one I painted in class....hey, maybe that means my painting skills are improving? I want to enter this in a show coming up the first part of August.
This last painting with the orange/pink flowers and blue background is really silly but it's growing on me. I like a little whimsy in my life so this fills that void. I might frame it or it may end up in my ever growing stack of Misforgotten Paintings which is growing by leaps and bounds!
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