Love Child
Acrylic mixed media portrait painting
Wayback Wednesday
I’ve had this painting around for a long while. I’m going through a phase right now where I want to revise allll my old work, even if I like it, and I do like this painting. At first I was just going to fix her wonky eye, but then I thought, nah..this painting has been sitting on the shelf too long. It’s time to change it, and make it brand new again.
Every human has four endowments –
self awareness, conscience, independent will
and creative imagination.
These give us the ultimate human freedom…
The power to choose,
to respond,
to change.
Stephen Covey
I get tired of seeing my old work after a while, tired of trying to market and sell it. Sometimes I just have to face the music..not all my paintings are going to sell, no matter how much I like them.
Now that I’m combining my portraits with all my other work, I need to be able to show a portrait and a floral side-by-side on a page or a wall, and have them look like they belong together. I want to bring old paintings up to speed.
I’m going for a refreshening reboot. In with the new, out with the old.
The entrepreneur always searches for change,
responds to it,
and exploits it as an opportunity.
Peter Drucker
I’m working on expanding my color palette a bit. My favorite color is pink, but I’m starting to get the urge to bring more colors into the mix. So, for this painting, I used a purplish blue for the shadows. I know I give purple a hard time, but I’ve always liked using it as a shadow color.
I added a little bird on her head because why not? There was plenty of room up there for something, and I’m crazy about chickadees.
I spent several days, probably over a week, on this painting, glazing in wet layer upon layer. Letting the paint dry between each layer. Here’s a closeup shot of those layers.
A fresh new face deserves a new title, also. I named it Good Luck Charm, which I think suits the work better.
You can buy this piece directly through me by clicking any of the photo above or by clicking this link.
