I decided it would be a nice day to paint, but I had no idea what I wanted to paint. I decided to set up my mini painting studio on the floor in our extra room and hoped an idea would just come to me by the time I started painting.I set up everything I needed to do a little oil painting.
I sit down to paint, squeeze out some quick dry white oil paint when it dawns on me that I don't want to use oil, I want to make a quick painting and I think red will be a good base. So I scratch the oil paint idea and reach for some red acrylic paint and layer it on the canvas.
I like the red, it's so crisp and sharp, but I still have no idea what I want to paint. I feel like it needs some white, but just white with red is too much of a contrast so now I'm thinking white and orange with red. OK, I like train of thought but I still don't know what I want to paint. So, what's a girl to do? Oh I know, squeeze some color on the canvas and mush it around with my hands, great idea.
OK, so it was a little messy and now it's looking entirely too unintentional (almost as if someone just slopped a bunch of paint on a red canvas, oh wait.... that is what I did....) So, I add some green.
Well, the green is nice if you like toxic waste areas, but that is not really what I am feeling, so, I add some blue.
Well, the blue helped a bit but the painting still has absolutely no direction. I decide to fall back on my go to design that I use whenever I don't want to finish a painting but need to do something to make it look "done". I paint some white flowers and swirls.
Although I am normally inclined to just cover the canvas with the white swirls and flowers, I decide that I like the background too much to just cover it with a meaningless design.... So I do the next best thing. I cover the rest of it with shiny gem stones! Yay!
Yes, it may be a "pointless" painting void of all meaning, but I kind of like it and I had fun painting it. And let's be real, gem stones are always a win.
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