GO WEST, YOUNG PAINTNGS, GO WEST!

 These are heading for them thar hills.

Twilight Grove

Acrylic on cotton fabric

Cedar Shakes

(and one other)

By column:

Left:

Abstract Waterfall: texture, transluscents

Tree: acrylics

Center:

White on black: texture, acrylics on stretched canvas

Abstract Desert: texture, transluscents

Purple Skyscape with silhouette: acrylics

Sky and Seascape: acrylics

UPSIDE DOWN HERE, my bad - Purple skyscape with foliage: acrylics

Right:

Rock and Tree: acrylics

Skyscape with silhouette: acrylics

Sky and waterscape with peninsula: acrylics

Abstract Halloween tree: acrylics

Here they are separately - kind of ... 

And that's the lot of them for this trip.

Oh, and this one, in case somebody up there wants to cut it down to size and stick it in a frame or something:

It may as well make itself useful a second time, eh?

And yes I know these photos are lousy. They're mainly here for my records. If anybody is interested in any of them, they'll have to contact Adla at the Cheshire Cat in Cripple Creek CO to see if she's got it or knows where it might be.

Ten Minute Stress Relief

Sometimes you just need a bit of canvas, some bottles of acrylics, and one good brush to break the tension.

Here it is without the crop:

When one painting is giving me grief, it helps to flip it over and do something to ease my soul on the back of it. That's what this is.

1) Yellow, light orange, dark orange, red, purple, and black.

2) The back of a work-in-progress.

3) One really good inch-and-a-half flat brush. 

4) Ten minutes and I'm settled down, attitude adjusted.

NOTE: One thing about this is that working fast can be really fun. You squeeze the paints straight from their bottles onto the canvas in drips, lines, little puddles, where you're going to want them, swipe your brush across them starting with the lightest tint and up into the next color to spread and blend them, wash out our brush quickly, pick up where you left off and do the next section, and repeat until you're done. The paint will still be a little damp, so the silhouetted mountain overlay picks up a touch of the lighter color, which is a nice effect IMO. HELPFUL HINT: Use the absolute minimum number of brush strokes possible, which I failed to do here, mainly because I was pretty stressed and not thinking straight when I started. 

That Painting and I Have COME TO AN AGREEMENT

 

We have decided to take a detour.

Until we are able to spend a lot more time at a seashore, we have no idea what the heck we're doing.

We are, however on our way to the mountains, and we have to cross high desert, and plains, and travel through foothills to get to said mountains.

Therefore, it is our joint decision to follow our natural inclinations and do something we know how to do.

The good news is that we are also right fond of horses and dogs, know them well as a matter of fact.

And enough is enough.

This painting does not want to be what I thought I wanted it to be, nor even anything close.

Fine time to find that out NOW, when it's supposed to be shipped within the next couple of days.

If This Painting Was A Kid I Would SEND IT TO ITS ROOM!

Since it's fighting me EVERY step of the way, chances are I'm going to call this battle a loss for me.

That's not a bad thing.

Every time this happens, it happens at the WORST possible time, drives me around the bend for a couple of hours before I give in and turn the process over to the paints and canvas.

That is inevitably the best decision because trying to force it has yet to produce a positive outcome for me.

So this is the time for me to go ahead and let the bloody recalcitrant painting take the bit and just hang on for the ride.

The good news is that none of those crazy rides has ever unseated me, so there's that.