6 x 6 Abstracts Created on hard board panels

I found these 6x6 hardboard panels on a site that is geared to teachers or kids camp programs.The kind that has craft kits that you can buy in bulk. The site is www.S&S.com  they were very reasonable so like most artists ordered a bunch and figured I would do something with them.

So I gessoed them and decided to paint mini abstracts. I did them in a series of  two, three or four. Below represents 2 of  4 in the series. The middle one was how I made them so they could be hung. I purchased a 1 x 4 x 6 feet long piece of pine,cut them to size with my compound slid saw, a little sanding , glued them to the square with panel glue used in a chalking gun and added the mirror hanger.

They look great hung together in the series. Enjoy

Small Abstracts 6 x 6

New Year , New Blog and Renewed Inspiration

  Hi and Welcome,
I am excited about creating this new blog with my right off the press new paintings, I have been working on this new body of work for about 9 mos. now and having a heck of a lotta fun, it is now time to share my journey with you. Ah!, the journey is the best part, all the possibilities that have no end insight.

I hope that my posts will give you food for thought and aide in some small way on your personal journey.

It is an evolving process for me, so different from my more representational pastel landscapes, to do a 180 working in a more or total abstract vane. I still adore pastels and still get a kick out of painting on location but this has opened my eyes to so many more ways of interpreting something. My new path will only enhance my pastels and visa verse.

Please feel free to comment, add suggestions or questions about any of my posts.

Hope you enjoy the ride and creative painting to all,

Virginia ( Ginny )

Wild Flower Morphed continued

The beginning with thin washes of acrylic paint with some areas sprayed with alcohol for the surface runs.

Process continued , emphasis  on the Clematis flowers.

Close up of the paper pattern and texture created with it.

This was the near completed piece but decided It still needed work and did not like the flowers or the colors.

This is what the painting finally morphed to. You can see the remnant's of the bottom right 3 flowers from the image before it , I added the complement of the purple with the inclusion of the yellow gold daisies. Noodled a bit more and called it done.

Flowers Morphed

gessoed rag matt board with dressmaking pattern tissue added

     

This was the crazyist thing. I started out wanting to paint some large climbing Clematis flowers that I have in the front on the mail box but I could not quite get the right color I was striving for so the painting started to morph. This is the beginning!!