Hey all! Happy Saturday!
I've been attempting to get back into painting for quite a while now. I've never been fantastic with paints, it's not my favourite medium at all!
Acrylics are probably my favourite though and I can usually recreate any cartoon characters and symbols with it quite easily.
For example this old thing I made many moons ago, never did finish it either LoL But it still looks pretty neat :)
Coming up with my own things and painting real things, for example a flower or a tree, is not my strong suit!
That being said I'm always up for challenges and decided to attempt to paint from a picture of a flower I took while I was visiting Hatley Castle on Vancouver Island this past spring.
Unfortunately once I checked my supplies I realized I was totally out of almost all colours! I had no red or pink, which was a problem!
I was left with some black, a little white, teal and blue.
That's no matter! I'll just make it work! LoL
Here's what I came up with:
I call it a smoky flower 😆
I messed up the leaves and got pretty carried away with my vignette LoL
But that's ok! It's art and it's probably my first serious attempt using acrylics to create something like this, the fact I'm willing to show it means it wasn't a total failure so I'm happy!!
I'm going to continue to work at it though, like anything, practise makes better!
Thanks for reading!
Take care!
~The NeoHippy
