Sometimes a painting just needs tweaked.

 I do a lot of paint and wine classes, sans wine.  Sometimes a painting will look okay when I leave class but later I will realize it's not quite what I wanted.  This is one of the reasons I have paints at home.  

For example, we did this mermaid tail at our last class.  Not bad, but for one thing, the littlest starfish blends in with the tail.  And the shells don't look right. 

So I looked up some images of starfish and shells online (which I should have done while in class).  And I changed it.  

I like the new version much better.  And I'm glad I didn't give up on it.  

Paintbrushes in can

I've been trying to expand my painting repertoire by doing some painting on my own.  I do find it hard to set aside time.  There always seems to be something more pressing to do.  But I did conceive and create this painting this weekend. Pretty happy with the way it turned out.



I'm painting for me, not to sell, so I splurged on the metallic paint for the ferrules.  Hard to see in the picture, but I blobbed some of the paint drips so they look more realistic.

Valentine's Day paint class

Normally I go to paint classes with two or three other people.  But on Valentine's Day they had planned with their significant others.  Imagine that!

I decided to go to class anyway.  The subject was a split painting so each person in the couple could do half.  I figured it could easily be done as a single painting in horizontal mode.

Class was completely booked.  All couples except me.  I let that bother me for about 60 seconds, then dived into my painting. 

I went off on my own changing the background and the type of tree. Not unhappy with the way it turned out.