Paintings from class

Here are a couple paintings from the acrylics class I took.  

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No surprise the portrait that I like the best is the one where we abstracted the background before starting on the portrait.  The more traditional portraits I was painting started to look better as the class progressed; but I the abstract background helped me have a little more fun with it.  Something about a pristine blank canvas seems serious and intimidating, but once you've already "wreaked" it with newspaper and burlap, then it's not so scary.  I don't know, maybe it was just me.  

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And in the last class we did a landscape from a photograph.  Again, I had a lot of fun with it, hmm, I 'm sensing a theme here.  It's when I take this art stuff too seriously that things don't seem to work out.  I'll have to think about that.  

Fun with extra paint

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A while back a friend gave me some old crappy acrylic paint, which has slowly been drying out in it's containers.  This stuff really does have a strange texture, especially as it starts to get all goopy.  But it was lots fun to play with!!!  

I thought that was the last of it, but I just stumbled on some more, so maybe I'll come up with another one of these.  Ok, now here is the hard part.... any idea what to call this thing?  

In case you missed the Don Valley Show and more words!

I know not everyone could make it, so here are the pictures from the show.

A Warm Wind Comes

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Tomorrow's News

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And I know I didn't do too much with the last set of words, but since "oven" was such a debacle, I think I'll start fresh.  

1. supportable
2. oily
3. grid
4. altitude
5. bloodshot

Oven and Paintdrops Blog

Oven

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Acrylic

Hi Everyone!  Ok, I think I'm done with Oven.  I can't say I'm all that happy with it, but I figured that would happen sometimes with this random word experiment.  I like areas of it, but overall it just isn't working for me.  

Oven - Close Up

I'm not usually too hung up on things being perfect, it's a bit lopsided even for me. This one is a bit bigger then what I've been doing lately, and though I like working flat, I think an easel would have helped.  Not that I have space for an easel, but that's another issue entirely.

Ok, to help redeem this post a bit, I'll send you off to another blog: Paintdrops Are Falling On My Pants is a blog by another Toronto artist Jaqui Michells.  She's recently started her blog and also to dabble in abstract.   Go check out what she's up to.