This past week was a bit of a doozy. I think I was just tired and a little stressed. In terms of painting, I didn’t really feel like painting most days, and when I did, I had a really hard time enjoying it. I could just not get in the groove. But I showed up and made the paintings. So I’m proud of myself for showing up and making a few not so great paintings.
Before this week, I thought I might continue this project for another month or so, but I have decided to end it at the end of January. I have a few other projects that need some attention and I feel like this project has served it’s purpose. I might pick it up here and there, but we will see.
Here are the paintings for this week. Like I said, they are a little rough, but not terrible. It was more about how I felt then the end result. (Also, I am “scrapping the bottom of the barrel” of my white. I ordered more paint and am waiting for it to get here, so I was very cautious about my white consumption. It made things a little difficult.)
1 hour painting #12- Flappy chicken 5.5”x 5.5”
I was really excited about this one, but once I got into I got a little frustrated. I couldn’t quite get the colors the way I wanted them. I also think that I should have gone with the bigger size panel. It would have been a little easier. But I thought I could make a little series and it would be cute. So I think this could have been better, but it’s fine.
redemption chicken 8”x8”
This is a painting that I immediately started after finishing the last one. I decided I would get out a bigger panel and try again. But This is probably 20 minutes in and I still felt frustrated and like things were not flowing, so I decided to call it a night.
1 hour painting #13- Silver fish lure 8”x8”
This painting actually went quite well. The only problem I had was I was really concerned about running out of white. I know it sounds silly, but it really made things difficult. Instead of freely painting, every mark carried a lot more weight to it. I think it came out nicely and happy with it.
1 hour painting #13-little silver fishing lure 5.5”x 5.5
After I finished my fishing lure, I got up to clean up and saw it from this angle and loved it. I liked that the shadow looked like a little ghost hanging out next to it. I also liked that I could see the second eye, and that you could tell they are those plastic eyes that stick out from the body. I don’t think this took me a full hour, maybe 30-45 minutes. I think it turned out really well.
1 hour painting #14- Blue oranges 8”x8”
Looking at this painting after a few days, it’s not as bad as I remember. When I started this I was already a little irritated and hot, but it got worse. I’m not sure why, but I felt like every time I looked up things shifted or weren’t in the same spot. I was standing in the same spot so it was almost like the oranges were playing a prank one me and moving every time I looked away. I felt like I needed to adjust things. After adjusting things once or twice, I finally decided I just had to make it work. Overall it looks pretty good, but it definitely was not my favorite one to work on.
Last week I mentioned that I was going to experiment with painting two of the same paintings. One from life and one from photo and see how they differ. This is my painting from life and in my next post you will get to see it’s buddy that is painted from a photo.
This week is going to be the final week for this challenge which is a little bitter sweet. I have really enjoyed this project (for the most part), but I can’t wait to get started on some other projects. I’m hoping I can wrap up this project with some enjoyable paintings.
Until next week, happy creating!