I saw a painting on etsy.com recently that I immediately fell in love with. I had actually planned on buying it if it was still available after my month of travel is over, and then a friend offered to try to paint it for me. For some reason, yesterday I decided to go to the craft store for a huge canvas to combat this ever-present beige wall problem, only to find that canvas was 40% off for all sizes! It was a deal I couldn't pass up and, although I did get a big single canvas and I didn't get pieces of canvas as large as the original painting (big canvas is pricey, sale or not), I did get something I could work with for my own interpretation of the "Mystic Tree".
Since I was working with 12x24 canvas instead of 12x36, my dimensions were a little bit different than in the original. I ultimately decided to do three pieces instead of four as a result. I went back and forth about background colors - it didn't seem to feel right if any of the four colors used in the original were taken out - but I finally settled on red, orange and green. Each canvas is started with a layer of yellow to add some unison to the whole picture. It took longer than I had expected - painting requires more attention to detail than pastels, which is probably why I generally prefer pastels to acrylics - but I am so, so happy with the result. Once I get the pieces sealed, they're going up on the large [and still very beige] living room wall where I hung the pastel from the previous post (it seemed big while I was working on it, but is truly dwarfed by the size of the wall), and the pastel can be reallocated somewhere else in the house.
In "looking forward" news... in coming weeks I have trips to two very different parts of the country - El Paso, TX and Juneau, AK/Whistler, BC. Coincidentally the photo project ("The Challenge") will be kicking off as well, so expect to see awesome things. I do!
Since I was working with 12x24 canvas instead of 12x36, my dimensions were a little bit different than in the original. I ultimately decided to do three pieces instead of four as a result. I went back and forth about background colors - it didn't seem to feel right if any of the four colors used in the original were taken out - but I finally settled on red, orange and green. Each canvas is started with a layer of yellow to add some unison to the whole picture. It took longer than I had expected - painting requires more attention to detail than pastels, which is probably why I generally prefer pastels to acrylics - but I am so, so happy with the result. Once I get the pieces sealed, they're going up on the large [and still very beige] living room wall where I hung the pastel from the previous post (it seemed big while I was working on it, but is truly dwarfed by the size of the wall), and the pastel can be reallocated somewhere else in the house.
In "looking forward" news... in coming weeks I have trips to two very different parts of the country - El Paso, TX and Juneau, AK/Whistler, BC. Coincidentally the photo project ("The Challenge") will be kicking off as well, so expect to see awesome things. I do!
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