Tag: Red

Gold Spun Poppies

Home decor, Paintings

I didn’t mean to. It just happened that way that I created an image with poppies that look like they are Dazed and Confused .

I created this image using my usual atmospheric landscape mindset and experimented with red because I don’t really use red. Red is one of those colours that I hate immensely, so I have always avoided using red in paintings.

But I’m finding I quite like this image. I’m surprised at how beautiful it looks and almost traditional it feels in its floral nature. When I took up the activity of painting, in my mind’s eye, I couldn’t imagine myself being a life painter and that’s why I decided to go down the abstract painting route.

However looking at this rather appealing image of shall we say, spun out poppies, I think it is possible for me to pursue being a painter of floral patterns.

Gold Spun Poppies by earthshine arts

Root chakra auras: Copper, grey, green, red acrylic fantasy landscape abstract:

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One for you to interpret. I was at first lost for words. Initially  I liked the combination of reds greens, yellows and grey. Then I decided it looks like a cluster of spirited trees beside a lake.

Fantasy lake tree clusterlandscape, brass, copper, green on grey background from Earthshine Arts

The trees look like they are giving off their warm aura and in this fantasy landscape it is very possible that their aura is visible. In eastern medicine, the colour of the root chakra is red -Chakra – Muladhara and that is about safety, survival, grounding. According to http://www.chakras.info/chakra-colors/

How nicely surprising that my fantasy landscape lake trees are grounding or at least signify being grounded.

A study in blue and lime: Acrylic painting

Home decor, Paintings, Upcycling

So I had this idea to do a painting with just blue shades. In fact I wrote this bit before I started finding the colors.

The other idea I had was to do one in lime as Elle Decoration said that lime is the colour of the season so here goes.

So these are done with a mixture of acrylics and fabric paints and I used some acrylic pouring technique in the center to get a mottled look with some of the golds and greens.

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Using mascara brush and pouring technique with gold and blue acrylic to get some interesting marks. Created by Earth Shine Arts

 

 

 

Fan Brush Stroke Painting II: Inspired by M

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These verticals, I think are curious brush strokes. And I am starting to call these pieces the Missoni influence. Since 1980’s I’ve loved the Italian knitwear designer’s collection.

 

 

Ottavio Missoni By Giuseppe Pino (Kind concession of Missoni S.p.A.) [CC BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)%5D, via Wikimedia Commons

I have to admit that Missoni does come second to my love of everything designers Guild or maybe they come third if I consider Andrew Martin. More on that in a later post.

You know I once bought a lot of Missoni fabric (of an amount I could afford) from the Shepherd’s Bush Fabric shop where all the fashion students go to buy for their cloth for their end of year shows.

Love their new collection for 2018 HERE

I digress. So here is the rest.

 

 

Blue green landscape painting and floral attempt

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So I had a go at doing an abstract landscape. I imagined a foreground sky and middle ground all based on my imagination. No I wasn’t in a poppy field but I think i was conjuring deep pink red tulips and buds of poppies. I’m still undecided about this one. Though I’m a bit pleased I did something that resembles a flower slightly.  I was encouraged recently when watched a channel 4 ( or was it a more four) program that spoke of American painters of the 19th and early 20th century. Watching their work I began to feel comforted to see that my brushstrokes were similar to what has gone before there. Sorry I cant remember the artist’s name. It will come……

Anyway looking at this work, I think I still need to learn about making finer marks for stems and the earth. Nevertheless, let me know what you think.

Buds of gold: Floral like abstract acrylic

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This time last week, I brought this painting home. You see I had joined a deep art work project. I think the philosophy is about the functionality of art. But some of them described it as going deep into the painting and just switching off from the outside world, no distractions, they said and not phones. I kind of took that as my signal not to chat and paint at the same time. So I went deep ( you could say) into creating this with my fabric paints and some acrylics i had to hand like true red (which looks like magenta) and gold metallic.

Golden bud picture

When it can time to pass around the Minstrals (chocolate button sweets for sharing) then it seems were were able then come out focus to talk.

Many said they liked this. I rather like it too.

You see the day before I had learned how to do the special I painting method and how to put the colors together so that there was balance and an appealing composition. So far my learning about doing acrylic art paintings seems to be working. I think this is my favorite of all the pieces I have done so far.

Next time I shall use less fabric paint and more acrylic. But the mix is interesting as fabric paint gives a flat matt finish which helps the gloss of the acrylic and metallic gold stand out.