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I get ideas and then when I actually get to work on a particular painting, it’s usually around midnight or something. So yesterday evening I bought a 36″x48″ canvas and began work.

Most of my work lacks a really warm feel, so I started with a green field and incorporated a copper metallic and a pewter metallic paint into the green with a bright orange that faded throughout to give it more warmth.

Pardon the crappy image, but my camera is on the fritz again. Hopefully my cell phone image above gives you more of the look that the background eventually had with the green, metallic and the orange created.

Foreground became apparent with the blue squarish-swirl-thingy. Masking it off and working outward created the feeling of the painting coming directly at the viewer. This was followed by some (my wife calls it dribblings) smaller poured lines of blue running throughout.

By the way, yes I am working on the bed at …. what time was that again?

My lovely spouse took a picture of the clock to remind me what time. How sweet is that?

So anyway, yes, I covered the bed in a drop cloth and worked there.

I decided to try this new masking tape that allows you to do curves. It’s more like a sticky banner (like the ones you put up for birthday parties)…um like at the top of the image here below.

And no, that is not my 25th birthday celebration there. Though I think it would be hilarious if someone threw me a Little Mermaid birthday party, it was the first image I found on google that had those banners I was talking about to describe the tape. I digress.

Next, painting the spiral in a wine red

This time I used more of a drip method as the copper paint was thicker. The copper really brought out the orange in the background giving an overall warmer feeling that I was going for.

I have always loved a bold stroke of color in a painting that works it’s way throughout and makes the painting vibrant. Something that almost doesn’t belong, but does. So I chose a bright yellow for this. More of a Harvest color that would entwine with the blue.

We are picking up a new camera today, so I’ll have a better image for you of the finished painting later today.

If you would like to feature your art on Artist Hideout, send me an email at william@b5media.com

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