I'm not sure why, but early in January I suddenly had ideas for multiple paintings. I started work on 6 different projects at the same time. I went back and forth between a number of paintings, prepped canvases for a couple more and also worked on a small book table that has been sitting around for months. It is one of my "road find" projects. I picked it up on the side of the road before the garbage truck got to it!
This first photo is the before picture. It probably was in a child's room. It was cute but not my style for where I wanted to put it in my entrance area.
Here is a photo of what it looks like now.
I placed it on a wall opposite the small 3 drawer cabinet that was featured in my last post. I painted it in the same colors and design. Here is what they look like together. Click on the photo to enlarge.
The inspiration for the next painting came from a photo my friend Gloria from Tucson sent me. Gloria and her husband George are both quilters. Over the years we have know them, they have created many beautiful quilts and have won many ribbons and have been featured in magazines. I have used their quilts for inspiration for many paintings. The first photo is the one Gloria sent me of the lap quilt she made.
This is the painting I did based on the above photo. I call it "Gloria's Beautiful Quilt".
It took quite a few steps and lots of masking tape to get all the narrow blocks painted. It also took lots of drying time for each step so while I was waiting for paint to dry I worked on 3 other paintings. Only one of them is finished. I will show the other ones in my next post. This one is a tiny 7X5 painting titled "Bird in a Gilded Frame. It is a pattern I did before but in a different color pallet. This is the new one.
Here is the one I did back in 2018
I will have some new home improvement project to show in my next blog post. For the past 5 weeks we have been doing our master bath and bedroom. They are almost done so I will be doing another post soon.
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