Thursday, October 2, 2014

Painting and not by numbers

Finally got the "OK" to decorate the apartment a bit. WHOO HOO!! I have been wanting to do this for a long while. Naturally now that I could, I was having such a hard time finding art I liked that was in my price range. The search to find ‘art’ was taking such a long time, and I was antsy. I wanted to get started on decorating! So, I ended up deciding to make the art myself. 

Before doing this, I spent a while looking for art examples.  I wanted to find one I liked and also thought was reasonably easy to recreate.Once I got my ideas, I went to Blicks and got supplies with a friend (Thank you Mr.A). Came home, set up the tarp on the patio to protect it and the walls while I was painting. I know my hun would be concerned about the mess and then got ready to start. 


After I started, I was surprised by how relaxing and enjoyable painting was. I was even more startled that the paintings actually came out pretty darn good! For the price of one art piece, I made myself four and put my own touch on it. Go ahead and check them out, they are below!
The first is a three piece set:
 

I decided to pick trees for a few reasons, one I really always liked the woods and two I always was able to draw them. Though I did not want the images to be really identical, I wanted them to be from different perspectives of time and distance. In the ended I really liked how these paintings came out and feel like one is almost walking through the woods. 

The second art piece is:
 

It is an abstract that sits above the fire place. While I will admit to liking the woods a bit better, I really love the colors in the abstract.  The colors play very nicely in the living room and picks up the colors in the wood. Plus the class of calming verse chaotic movements within the painting also make it interesting to look at. 
 
Lessons learned? Everyone and anyone can find their inner artist.