It was quite exciting buying the canvasses (couldn't let Jerome and Dot miss out), brushes and box of assorted paint for beginners. At first, I painted the canvas with a shade of maroon, red and a bit of brown.
Then I drew a stick figure over it hoping that it would come out... with a traditional-painting feel. But the stick figure ended up looking like a pregnant woman with dreadlocks and ET legs. So I drew over the picture with white and light orange paint. It was my form of erasing the previous painting.
Then I painted a curvy red line across the canvas to symbolize "goals". And I had little stick figures hanging onto this line. Even painted tiny stick figures lining up and jumping off a "cliff" in an attempt to grab onto this line.
But I just was not feeling the painting. So I erased it with a dark shade of blue and mixed a bit of funky blue in it (yes, my limited knowledge of colours is starting to show).
Painted four bright red lines and a couple of red dots. And in a nick of time, it was done! We shall call it "The painting that matches the red wall and the blue sofa".
Art is art. While it is an expression of the mind, I couldn't stop criticising my own painting. I can honestly say that I will appreciate other people's paintings more so now than ever before.
Jerome's "Cobalt Shine"
Dot's "Australia"
Then I drew a stick figure over it hoping that it would come out... with a traditional-painting feel. But the stick figure ended up looking like a pregnant woman with dreadlocks and ET legs. So I drew over the picture with white and light orange paint. It was my form of erasing the previous painting.
Then I painted a curvy red line across the canvas to symbolize "goals". And I had little stick figures hanging onto this line. Even painted tiny stick figures lining up and jumping off a "cliff" in an attempt to grab onto this line.
But I just was not feeling the painting. So I erased it with a dark shade of blue and mixed a bit of funky blue in it (yes, my limited knowledge of colours is starting to show).
Painted four bright red lines and a couple of red dots. And in a nick of time, it was done! We shall call it "The painting that matches the red wall and the blue sofa".
Art is art. While it is an expression of the mind, I couldn't stop criticising my own painting. I can honestly say that I will appreciate other people's paintings more so now than ever before.
Jerome's "Cobalt Shine"
Dot's "Australia"
No comments:
Post a Comment