Freaky Friday

Ok, now let's just face it, sometimes paintings cannot be revived, renovated, or remixed in any way! One just has to start fresh! So, as a result...this painting will not be completed or even be considered for completion.

Now it's time to start fresh again. Here is a brand new canvas. I'm out of "acrylic flow release" medium... I'm off to my favourite art supplier. The art shop did not have any of the "flow release". Plan be...I have some "airbrush medium" so I will try it.

So this is stage one...now wait to dry......in the meantime, I'm starring at the "no hope" painting and I just have to give it the old "college" try. Plus I really hate to be a failure without pushing the limits. So I outlined the light areas with soft chalk pastels and started applying some acrylics into areas that needed a deep red. Before continuing, I am deciding with a cup of tea....what to do next...

I will keep you posted!

Until next time...happy creating 

Nadine 

Feeling a Little "Drippy"

We've had a stretch of sunny/cloudy days, but I look at the forecast for the next week....and you guessed it - Rain. Well I don't feel like puddle jumping like a couple of wee ones love to do, but I do love drips in my creative process.

Once again, I took an old painting that wasn't inspiring me anymore and got out some acrylics. I don't really have a concrete idea of where this painting should go, but I will use my intuition to guide me.

First stage..... I see a landscape emerging.... I'm going to push this piece a lot further because I have nothing to lose!

Final stage, maybe, maybe not....

I used a thicker acrylic and the paint really blended and soaked into the canvas, as a result the colours flooded together making the piece too dark. So while the paint was still wet I used a straw and blew the some of the paint to reveal the lighter colours underneath. I'm going to wait until this is completely dry before proceeding.

It has stopped raining now so I will go on a lovely walk.

Until next time...happy creating
Nadine

Another Travel Day

I'm returning home to Victoria after spending a wonderful few days, jammed packed mind you days. Exhausted but happy to be "home"!

Thanks for your patience - I promise I will have something new and creative for the next post.

Until next time....happy creating

Nadine 

Travel Day

We are off to Vancouver today, visiting friends and family. Instead of creating a piece, I visited the Vancouver Art Gallery to enjoy others in their creative journey.

The major show was "Embracing Canada: Landscapes from Krieghoff to the Group of Seven. A wonderful exhibition especially when I had Cathy to enjoy and appreciate these fine works.

Until next time...happy creating 

Nadine 

Loving Victoria! Spring is in the Air!!

That's right, spring is just around the corner here in Victoria. I've seen some of the early blossoms on cherry trees (sorry I don't know the name of this tree variety), primulas are blooming and just the other day walking down Fort Street, the florist had bunches of locally grown daffodils out! What, this is insane and I'm loving it, 9 degrees celsius  today! I know it's mid January....so for the non believers here is a photo.

I was so inspired by the thought of spring bulbs popping up everywhere I just had to create a couple of acrylic impressionistic paintings (10"x19.5").

Until next time...happy creating

Nadine

Photo Mania!

One of my "new year's" projects is to clean up all the albums, hard copies and digital photographs that we have. No mean feat!

I can't believe how many photographs of family, friends, landscapes, florals, paintings, artworks, ideas, magazine articles and meaningless.....!!! that I currently have. I moved to BC over five years ago, I thought I did a major clean up then....but now, with technology, the photo library has exploded totally out of control. My IPhone, IPad and IMac all talk to each other and I have streaming, collections, faces, places, events....and the list goes on. I have to get a handle on this.

So, I've spent the last 5 days going through our "hard copy" albums (2 bins worth) and eliminating those that I never will look at again or are even remotely interested in painting or using in any art/creative process. I'm sure I could regret this decision one day...but really, if I need a photo of a field of "green" I'm sure I can locate an image somewhere to take, another photo of!

I've also started cleaning up the IMac, and hopefully this will also take care of precious gigabyte
space on my other two devices.

Wish me luck...this could take all year!

In the meantime, I'm sure I will be photographing all and every interesting idea, person, place or thing!!!

Until next time...happy creating

Nadine

Back to Acrylics

Another one of my ideas was to rework some older paintings and turn them into "new" paintings. Out comes the gesso and just like magic the older painting has vanished!

I'm really liking the soft background and suggests a field of wildflowers to me. The canvas is only 10" x 19.5" so I wanted to keep the subject matter simple!

Until next time.....happy creating

Nadine