THIRD TRY

I'm still lovin' this whole knife painting thing!  The only downside is that you go through an enormous amount of paint in the process. 

But, as I have, with great intelligience and foresight, signed up for a Michael's reward card, I get fabuloso coupons by e-mail.  If you don't have one yet, get thee to your nearest Michael's store and do something about that!  ;)

Or, you can probably sign up on line.  Here's their website.

http://www.michaels.com/

I had gone through a big tube of white paint in a week (ohmygawd!) and so I had to get some more if I wanted to paint anything else.  Guess what?  I had a 40% off coupon for ALL paint!!!  So, I pigged out!  Why wouldn't I?  This time, I got two tubes of white and lots of other luscious colors!

I have begun another landscape but I'm not ready to show that to you just yet.  And when I felt I needed to set that one aside for a bit, of course, I started another painting...another floral.  This one has a whole different look than those first two and I did it on a larger canvas.

One of my good artist friends has taught me that if I want to get a grasp on something new, I will have to repeat the process at least 10 times.  That means after 7 more floral paintings, done with a knife, I will only just begin to 'get' it.  In the meantime, I will do the best I can on each piece and unless it's truly horrendously awful and embarrassing, I'll share it with you.

I am delighted that I found the 'noive' to attempt these and if you are a painter and  have any inclination at all, I want to encourage you to try it, too.  It's another tool for your painter's toolbox...and we all need all the good tools we can get, don't we? 

I have often thought my paintings woud be much improved by the addition of more texture, but I didn't quite know how to achieve that.  After this experiment, I won't have that issue any more.  So, I'm believing that my 'regular' paintings, done with a brush, will be better because of this. 

I hope so, anyway.

I'm calling this 16 x 20 painting SUNFLOWERS AND DAISIES.

I am grateful to be able to share my excitement with you all and I hope that I encourage you to find something creatively exciting to do in your own life!