OK, maybe I'll paint one more pillow

Well, I still haven't come up with any brilliant, original compositions. I guess I need to paint... another pillow! I'm at least painting something, and I like the colors.

I think I'm a secondary color triad person (that would be green, purple and orange - vs. red, yellow, and blue primary colors). Is that similar to liking the minor keys in music? I have no idea. Maybe.

I painted this painting freehand as well - that is pencil sketch on canvas while looking at pillow which was propped up nearby.

My respect for a painter (like Miro in this case - who I believe inspired these designs) always increases when I try to do something in their style. What looks like a simple work initially....turns out to made by someone who is, in fact, a highly skilled artist - who is making something look easy.

Does it have to be original?

OK, I admit it. I really would like to paint some really amazing, never-been-seen before images. Surely, it couldn't be that hard to do, right? Several months later....

Proving the point that it's better to get started and paint something, anything really, than it is to not paint at all...I've painted some pillows and rugs.

To the right is the first pillow I painted. These pillows were made by a company in India called Home Front I believe - which may or may not still be in business. Their faux Miro (painter) look is pretty great.

I sat down and sketched this out freehand with a pencil on canvas, and painted it "coloring book style" with acrylic paints - though I may have experimented with a black Sharpie for the black lines before going over the pen lines with black paint via a fine brush. (Making straight black lines on a bumpy canvas is not the best idea, but it sort of works.) My green paint was a little too transparent, so it sort of blends in a little too much with the purple in one area....But, hey, I got started painting something. Hurray.

I promise myself I will do at least a few paintings and drawings. And, I'm putting up stuff on this blog to give myself some accountability - right Andrew?