The light is gone. I may have overdone on pasta. I went out on the porch to catch the last hummingbirds, listen to birds and visit with the plants. Now that they’re in their summer homes, sometimes they look like they’re visiting each other.
Yesterday I did a late evening paint inside of an imaginary scene and yet it looks like several places where you could stop to look at the changing light.
I wanted to make the upper portion darker and more blue to suggest the window behind the flowers. That was mostly a negative painting exercise. I also used some shadow colors to suggest a few leaf edges and some depth to the foliage. I am pretty pleased with it. Plus I got practice in letting it really dry and not rushing it!
Here’s how it began:
I’ll have to go back and watch part two again because in part three, it seemed doing wet on dry was quite different – and it worked great to make funky little edges and shapes. The continuing theme is to look at the little pieces in all orientations to see if anything pops out as useable. Quite an interesting process.
Quiet Saturday with an early start and errand. The flies (and if I have to be truthful – inchworms) are out in full force so it takes some doing to sit outside and paint in the yard but I managed to do this.
Had a nice outing with Mom to Becker’s in town for some hanging baskets and bedding plants. It was hotter than we thought but we made it home with no one wilting!
Here’s one of the coleus I got.
And here’s the star of the show, a hanging basket that we liked so much we each got one.
If we can’t make and keep commitments to ourselves as well as to others, our commitments become meaningless.
