Getting Down and Dirty
I had the best fun painting this Underwater scene….with memory’s of Mary’s fabulous painting and a love of the sea my blank canvas took a brand new shape!
There was purple everywhere…it is such a consuming colour…deep rich and very vibrant.
Diving In the Deep
I enjoyed this one so much, the coral has many, many hearts…fun.
Jo
When Days turn into Nights…
People ask me how I manage to fit painting into my already busy life…I work fulltime, have 3 wonderful children, my husband and I own Deepweb.co .nz, a web design company, I write poetry, I walk as a hobby, I practice Taekwon-do and last but not lest….I paint….actually I do heaps of other stuff too.
It is called making the most of my life and every minute I get to grace this earth…
I paint and write into the deep night, one does not begat the other….it seems that when I have a writing binge I am bearly able to paint and the other way around…at the moment it is painting that takes the fore…Friday night painting finished at 1:15am on Saturday morning…I lost track of time.
I become amazed and delighted at what appears on the canvas. My biggest issue is that I have to keep my fulltime job to pay for my canvases and the art workshops…
I have yet to take more paintings into Coco, I am enjoying them on my own walls and I am inspired by them too. I am not sure I want them to languish in a cafe/gift shop out of my view…I will have to get over myself sooner rather than later.
These are the two paintings from Saturday’s efforts…
Feather - My First
I am delighted with the Feather, it appeared unexpectedly and just looked amazing.
Anemone Sunset
The “Anemone Sunset” was created using the blending techniques that Nemesh taught me and my imagination…
I can’t wait until the next workshop…21,22 February 2009, at “The Quarry Arts Centre”…the class is almost full but I understand that are a few places left…
Anyhow….my days quickly roll into nights and the nights are just not long enough…I love painting!!!
Jo
Koru - Complete
Koru - Complete
Well, Saturday was a busy one…
Anytime you are in my neck of the woods visit Coco, it’s worth the effort and you get to see my work “live”.
You can also email me to arrange a visit to see what I have on my walls at home…
Jo
When is a painting finished?
Koru - Unfinished
Mmmmm, good question.
My Koru is a prime example…last night after spending another 3 hours creating it….a total of 7 hours so far…I looked at it with tired eyes and considered that I had finished…
However…in the day light…I can see that it needs more dark…and more shaping and…the list goes on…so I am not finished with it’s creation…maybe another hour or to and I will be able to declare it complete…but NOT YET!!!
You can however…over work your painting, I have seen and created examples where I have turn my work to a lovely shade of mud…
Ahhhh, Yes…mud….but all is not lost…with a pallet knife and paint shaper you can remove the mud and begin again…
A painting is finished when you declare it complete! This does not mean that you can’t go back at a later date and add some special touches. It does however give you the separation required to start a new painting.
I have discovered that I can get really attached to my painting as I am creating the vision in front of me…it is hard to declare something complete when you just want to spend more time on it!!!
I have attached my Koru…in it’s uncomplete state so you can see what I mean.
Jo
