Don’t Think Twice Abstract painting, Poppies, Oil Painting, and What’s For Breakfast

Don’t Think Twice
Abstract painting in white, gray, black, and a sprinkle of pink
Prints are available here

poppies in my art journal

There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind.
c.s. lewis

I ended up painting over the entire painting in black paint. It started going off in a direction I didn’t like, and I couldn’t rein it back in. Oh, well. I think I’ll try it again, but next time with oils.

4×4 in OILS

Remember when I said I was struggling with oils last week? Yeah, well, I’m not anymore. 🙂 I LOVE them now. Four days, I’ve had oils on my palette, and they’re still soft, and ready to use. I’m still constantly fighting to keep my acrylics from drying out in paint cups full of water. It’s such a pain. I’ve been wasting so much paint. Sure, oils are more expensive than acrylics, but when I think of how much I scrape and throw away every day. ugh. I probably will be ditching the acrylics, well, not completely. I’ll still use them in my art journals because I don’t want open books taking up space on my table for weeks at a time, but this is certainly a huge game changer. This weekend Greg is going to build me a long shelf for drying oil paintings, like this one I saw on Carol Marine’s blog. I wonder if he plans on doing it before or after we do our taxes. UGH. Oooh, I hate this time of year.

salad with tofu
I often eat lunch for breakfast because there aren’t a lot of breakfast foods I can or want to eat.
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