I am trying to work on a few little paintings for the art show at our Christmas concert this year, but it's not coming out as good as I had hoped. To be honest, I don't have a lot of experience making actual paintings- most of the painting I've done has been with guache on bristol making Fashion Illustrations. I did some acrylic paintings in high school but never anything award winning. So why did I choose to make a painting for this particular art show? Because the theme of the show is "God With Us". I felt it was quite hard to draw something for that theme without it becoming too cliche, so I decided to work on the more abstract level. To make my abstract worth looking at I thought I should use some color.
And isn't mixing paint colors just delightful? I like to squirt some of the paint right onto the canvas and mix the colors as they slide across the canvas. The marbled look is always cool to see. When I was in school I always loved seeing all the beautiful colors left in my palette- when using guache there would always be varying lightnesses of a color because I would keep adding more water to get the color that matched my fabric swatch. And sometimes the most exciting part was pouring the paint down the sink and seeing the little rainbow wash away.
