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Been kind of a slow week. Painted yesterday, didn’t love the outcome and the pictures I took were too blurry, later in the evening when trying to spray one of the dogs to get them to quiet down I ended up dowsing both of the current works in progress and ruining them…so, back to the drawing board.

The one I was working on yesterday was a landscape piece, it started out with the purple spot shown on the middle right and I was going to make a Seuss type flower out of it, but instead decided it would become a moon after I used an Orange Pansy to make the mountainy scene below it instead of just ground. Later I added Purple Pansy for the sky over a mix of Orange Marigold and Yellow Pansy. Lastly I put a splash of blue from the Purple Pansies on the land to try and make a water feature…all in all it was probably for the best that it got splashed.

Sorry this picture is a little on the blurry side.

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This is what it looked like after getting splashed.

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And this is what it currently looks like after I stripped away the bottom half and then accidentally sprayed some Gaia’s Gold(a veggie wash/cleaner) that hit the top of it. My intention was to reuse the top half and do this image of a cloaked figure I have in my head, but I think I will be doing that on another piece now and will probably start fresh on this one. I don’t know if it translates in the picture, but here the spots are an almost fluorescent green.

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The other project I have been working on was my attempt to do something other than a mix of blues and purples. I used the Orange Lily, Its Anthers, Orange Marigold and Yellow Pansy for the four corners and then because it was there, Raspberry juice for the center from some berries that Lisa was working with. It made for an interesting, bright and shiny color but really didn’t do anything for the piece.

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Lastly a quick update on my science experiment for color storage. I accidentally…see didn’t pay any attention too, water the Orange Lily I bought and it dried up within a week and most of the leaves fell off along with the majority of the Anther’s drying up and becoming useless, so, I went and checked the samples I had placed in the fridge and the freezer, the Anthers were as perfect as the day I put them in there, the leave seemed to be holding up as well.

At present I can say refrigeration will certainly help prolong the usefulness of Anther’s and possibly of petals as well. More on this as time passes.

Oh and last but not least, I have been discussing having a Canvas Sketchbook made with a local canvas stretcher, it looks like my Canvas Palette Book will soon be a reality.

Project #6 Blue Eyed Beast

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This piece, originally seen here as a work in progress

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is now completed. While I am still trying to capture the combination of yellows and blues that I saw when I was doing my first test piece, this is where I ended up going.

I realized when I had the above that the yellow pansy was not having the same effect as the Black Lily anther, but I was enjoying the abstract cloud effect of the purple pansy. The swirling arms coming out of the mass gave me the idea of completing the piece in blue and then putting a purple creature over it.

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In the end, it was a little darker purple than I had been going for and it took some playing around to get it to where I liked it. I’d still like to see a little more definition in the beast and I have really struggled to get his blue eye to pop.

I added the planet at the bottom of the piece to give it a nice invasion feel and then I decided his creepy clawed arms weren’t enough so I started adding what I thought would be bombs…turns out I might have been slightly more influenced by our trip to see Sperm! The Musical the night before then I realized as it now looks like the creature is shooting his load at the planet/egg beneath him.

Art is always subjective, so see it as I intended or as it turned out or however you like, I just hope you enjoy it.

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1,2,3,5 What?

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One might wonder if I am simply bad at math or if something sinister is afoot…I would have to say the latter.

Consider it more a lesson learned in what the sinister effects of leaving a window open with art on the table might be when the sprinkler is set on a timer and you are up on top of some mountain picking Huckleberries and well, here’s the lesson…

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I had been working on the above and the below, two separate pieces, one of 5 tiles and the other of 3. One was for Lisa the other for my mother. Essentially the same concept, letters on canvas squares to spell out Vixen, my nickname for Lisa and of course, Mom.

I was most of the way finished, with the one’s for Lisa, they were made up of Black Hollyhock and the yellow from the Black Lily anther, a coat or two of this makes the most vibrant yellow I have been able to find thus far, plus it’s dry powdery consistency makes it blend with other colors better than moist colors.

The first picture above shows what happened to most of the pieces. I had to essentially wash the canvas off and start over at that point and it was towards the end of the Black Lilies life, by the time I went to pluck their anthers to redo the yellow…well, I was too late, and thus, project #4 is unfinished until either next year or until I find something else to use in its place.

Here is a picture of the mostly reworked E as well as a spot that got hit by it being in the kitchen…

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The moral:

Most important, probably best not to store your artwork in the kitchen…but we live in a small house…so I’ll continue to live dangerously for now.

Second, don’t get an unfinished piece of Scrye work wet, not even a little. Water will instantly damage the integrity and in some cases completely wash away your work. It might add some interesting effects, but unless you are wanting to explore that as an option, keep your work safe until it is completed and you get a chance to coat it.

Pictures of some of the flowers used

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I had a chance to take some pictures this morning.

The first two are the purple and yellow Pansies I have been using to make most of my blues. This first image is very purple and the color it gives when wet is purple like the leaves, but dries various shades of blue. A week ago there was much more yellow in the throaat then there is today when I took these.

When using any of the Pansies they tend to leave a fair amount of debris, but if you wait about ten seconds for things to dry you can brush it off, if you wait more than a couple of minutes the debris will dry in to your painting, if that is the look you are going for, great, if you want to minimize the plant matter in your finished product you will want to stay on top of keeping it off.
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This is a slightly different colored Pansy that gives similar results.

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These orange Marigolds give a brilliant orange on thick stock paper, but tend to leave a lot of runny debris on canvas. They are ok to use first, or if you clear a spot to add it in, but they do not work to add on top of other colors.

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And the last image for the moment is the Black Hollyhock which by far gives the brightest purple I have found yet. Challenges with it include that it is very sticky to work with, it can wipe out previous layers if not careful and it will leave a lot of debris that is hard, if not impossible to remove.

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I’ll probably do a few posts on Hollyhocks in general because in addition to the vibrant purple I have also discovered something magical with White one’s that I was not expecting.