It's the last day of August & my mind is racing with usual September anticipations! Fall, no more mosquitos, leaves changing colours, mushrooms & even Halloween (one of my favourite subjects to paint) & even my sons Birthday - always worth celebrating. I ventured out yesterday and the mushrooms are plentiful - I noticed a few of the edible - have been nibbled! Animals are so smart. Inspired by the mushrooms (as always) I started my next acrylic, round - Ontario mushrooms! In the image you'll notice I have numbers on the mushrooms -page numbers for reference. They are all real. Because I'm working with acrylic one aspect I love is it covers pencils & mistakes nicely, once it's dry you can work over it.
Next, I feel a portrait painting, inspired by the last Domestika class with Jon Berkeley - I love his use of different colours and 'editorial style & I have a few editorial cartoons I've been pondering. While the weather is still nice I try to spend as much time outside as possible - the ducks, now full grown are always a pleasure to visit & watch them waddle around the pen. Duck paintings on the horizon. Time to kick the ball and look for more mushrooms before I paint. I want to emphasize, these Domestika classes have been a nice little boost to my own creativity (more than Netflix), I encourage others to check them out. The chill in the air has French Onion soup calling!
Below is a tiny mushroom Jack-o-lantern, painted on black paper - to experiment & play with the paper & acrylic, the paper has a texture I do not like and too absorbent for the acrylic, making it difficult to spread & blend - lesson learned. I'll save this pad for pastels or gouache but again, it's hard to achieve the detail I usually desire, so it might sit on the shelf or used for crafts'. It was a fun little pre-halloween idea to paint though - inspired by the orange mushroom, found in the woods.
Thankful for another day to create, cook and chase dogs & ducks. Enjoy your day - what ever you do.
Next, I feel a portrait painting, inspired by the last Domestika class with Jon Berkeley - I love his use of different colours and 'editorial style & I have a few editorial cartoons I've been pondering. While the weather is still nice I try to spend as much time outside as possible - the ducks, now full grown are always a pleasure to visit & watch them waddle around the pen. Duck paintings on the horizon. Time to kick the ball and look for more mushrooms before I paint. I want to emphasize, these Domestika classes have been a nice little boost to my own creativity (more than Netflix), I encourage others to check them out. The chill in the air has French Onion soup calling!
Below is a tiny mushroom Jack-o-lantern, painted on black paper - to experiment & play with the paper & acrylic, the paper has a texture I do not like and too absorbent for the acrylic, making it difficult to spread & blend - lesson learned. I'll save this pad for pastels or gouache but again, it's hard to achieve the detail I usually desire, so it might sit on the shelf or used for crafts'. It was a fun little pre-halloween idea to paint though - inspired by the orange mushroom, found in the woods.
Thankful for another day to create, cook and chase dogs & ducks. Enjoy your day - what ever you do.
