Day 51 of The 100 Day Project started out a bit reflective so I decided to do a bit of journaling. I wrote on a bit of the exlife drawing paper that I'd folded into four, thinking I would paint over it at some point. Since I have no desire to revisit the words once written it seemed like a good choice.
I started writing in blue and then changed direction and used purple. By the time I got to green my mind was wandering elsewhere so I ended about one third down the page.
The image is deliberately out of focus. No need for you to read my ramblings.
At the back of my mind, as I was writing, I thought I would complete the page with a fourth colour and then turn it into something I could do a blog post about. But I let that idea go and here is where I ended. Although, come to think of it, I am doing a blog post about it. Just not the one I had in mind. 😂
I like writing this way and once covered three canvases with my waffling. They lay around for years until a neighbour visited the attic and asked if she could buy them. 😱
They weren't finished as far as I was concerned. In fact I wasn't even sure what they were but if she wanted to give me money for them I wasn't going to argue. 😂
It's weird to think they were lying around here for ages and now they're hanging on a wall next door. 🤷♂
And talking about lying around for ages. I had a few more minutes to do stuff in the attic so I thought I'd grab another canvas that has been propped against the wall for years and just decide that it was done and hang it up somewhere.
First though, I needed to clean it. It was absoslutely filthy. Then I needed to paint the sides of the canvas as I can't see it being framed anytime soon.
But then I found myself faffing around, sanding back some of the paint. And this is why I have so many canvases lying around unfinished, I just can't stop myself fiddling.
After giving myself a stern talking to I finally got some painters tape onto one edge of the canvas and then . . . ran out of time. 😂
Maybe just as well as I didn't like the colour I chose for the sides and the tape fell off.
So this painting gets to lie around a bit longer after all.
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That was a fun story about your neighbor buying your old canvases with all the writing. Who knew ??!!
"After giving myself a stern talking to" ..... that made me laugh.
I have some unfinished canvases myself with at least one layer of paint or more. When I get better at the mixed media, I might let some of those be layers under paper. Time will tell. Right now, they are bigger than I want to attack.
I look forward to seeing your progress with the canvases.
I've made sales to 4 different people now who've come into the attic. 😁
The neighbour was particulalry nutty. Not only did she buy the 3 writing ones but she bought one that I had literally placed on the floor to catch the drips when I was working on a bigger canvas on the wall. It was just plain white with a few drips of blue and florescent pink on it. I know art is subjective but really?
Anyway, she paid for it so I wasn't going to argue.
I don't blame you for giving no argument to someone that wants to give you money !
Art is in the eye of each person it is true and if it makes you happy to look at it, then it IS good to YOU.
I am curious to see what I come up with too! LOL.... I started another last night. I am curious if it will look anything like it does now in the end.
I'm looking forward to seeing your latest prodcution. 😁
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