Allspice & Acrylics: blooming tumbling plants, crazy painted backgrounds, happy wedding planning

Thursday, May 7, 2015

blooming tumbling plants, crazy painted backgrounds, happy wedding planning - Who needs Spring Cleaning?

Thursday...

Put the finishing touches on this last night!

“May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view.”
— Edward Abbey

So that painting I did yesterday turned into the four seasons battling it out...

But I'd say that today, Spring has come out on top!

It's a hot, almost summer-like day and our garden is certainly starting to bloom away!

Or more like fall over? I think that'd be a fun painting - just a bunch of growing plants falling over each other, fighting for their space in the sun...

Pinning Inspiration...

I love all of the inspiration you are posting on my Show Me Your heART pinterest page - because of you, I'm learning the secret to roasted beets and being inspired by some wonderful mixed media art! As much as I sometimes hate technology, the internet has been such an amazing way to connect with all of you creative people, swap ideas, support each other - so thanks for following my blog folks :)

Oh - and don't forget that all of my art on amyoes.com is pinnable too - so check out my art galleries! (Thank you to my awesome fiance for that!)

In the Studio...

My head has been bursting lately with all the life I see behind every dancing tree trunk - my paintbrush can't keep up with all the interactions and animated nature scenes stirring up in my imagination! So today my intention was to just paint a TON of backgrounds to finally give all those happy trees and flowers a place to play :)

My biggest technique for creating these abstract backgrounds is to not think about if what I'm making is ugly or not as I'm painting - no judgment until it's dry. And when it's dry - judge something else - but no judging my art!

I got a bit creative with some paper towels, a fork, my finger - whatever's "hand"-y.

(sorry, couldn't resist.)

Then I made this 14 x 17 background but I liked it so much...

That I had to make the same one for a 20 x 24 :)

Then, I was feeling quite ambitious, so I finally decided to start tackling my tree wedding scene - I've only got about a month left to make it!

Of course, the way I work, my painting will probably turn out completely different than how I imaged it. Originally, I was thinking the bride tree would be walking down an aisle of flower petals to the groom, waiting under a beautiful canopy of leaves.

But we'll see what happens. I really want to take my time on this and do a little each day.

So we'll see :)

It's funny, I was looking at my old youtube videos, and I played around with writing a song "Lifetime" - it's just a rough playing on guitar and a few lyrics thrown together, but it's nice to think that I was waiting for the love of my life to come around - and now I'm getting married next month :)