Tuesday, December 13, 2016

Winter Is Here and I've Got a Hankering to Paint!

I'm trying to paint a scene I saw down in the Bitterroots this fall on the Tin Cup Trail. It is vexing me at the moment.

One of the real challenges for a beginner painter is that most everything thing you try to do you've never done before. It will be nice when, someday, I have a library of paintings that I can refer to get ideas as to how I did something in the past.

Anyway, I was trying to figure out what the problem was with my paint not sticking on already dried paint. As I always do with my experiments, once I've done the experiment I can't just let the canvas go to waste. I save every little dab of paint in little paint pots and this is when I use them. The colors are all a mish-mash and I couldn't recreate them if I tried.

On this particular experimental canvas I let the brush fly to the music of Suzanne Chiani. I'm quite fond of her work. It's New Age and it moves me. It moved my brush too!

I can't think of anything to call it. Maybe I should call it Suzanne?




Hopefully, one fine day I will have my Tin Cup Painting done. Then again maybe not because I have this thing in my craw to do something in black and white. It's so great to be able to do as you please on a whim!

There is a reason I express my gratitude each and everyday!

©Kinsey Barnard

2 comments:

  1. Really love those brush strokes on the top. They remind me of wheat blowing in the wind. It makes me smile envisioning you saving the paints in little containers. I don't recall ever doing that.

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  2. In the end I decided it was salmon running in the Tobacco River! :)

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