Take 2 on this first post! Somehow this and the second post never got published, but the third post did! So…here now is the first and second posts, hopefully in the right order!
I decided I need to get going again on my painting. We are both retired now, but seem to have less time than ever! But we have a few weeks coming up where we are going to be at home for a bit, so I figured this might be a good time to get going! But…..my other passion is our garden (which was a complete blank canvas, and we are slowly transforming), and I never know which one I should be putting my efforts into! I clearly need better organisational skills, as I end up (like today) doing nothing!
But, I have made a start on a painting – it’s called OZ, as it relates to Australia, and is to be on the same lines as my ‘Guilded Isles’.
My vision for this painting centres round the colour red / orange (Ayers Rock), but my first attempt with these colours just didn’t work – for me anyway. So I gesso’d completely over the top, whereby it looked more like Iceland than Australia, and have now started again, with more subtle colours. See the next few photos and see what you think!