At this point I am fairly certain most of you are aware of my Office Craft Space Transformation in Progress (you can read up on those projects: here,here, here and here)… But no space is complete without a bit of art, am I right? So art we shall create, since buying art isn’t always an option! This is a fun little project, with no particular rules… this means you really can’t screw it up! Yay! We created this fun painting a while back, and the painting we are working on today is going to be a bit different in technique and obviously in result as well…so I hope you like it, or it at the very least inspires you to give painting a try!
First things first…get your supplies ready. I use egg cartons as my paint holders. Helps me keep the color separate yet visible and easily mixable if need be. I also tend to stick with one brush throughout a project like this and the fine friend you see below is precisely the perfect brush for this particular project. It’s a 1″ brush with flat blunt bristles.
I began with the white and black blending at the top and bottom and kept applying a tiny bit of either white or black until it was a nice gray, black, white blend. I used a side to side brush technique for this entire project. Simply sweeping the brush back and forth, back and forth until it was a consistency I was happy with.
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Then I began to add the color! I tried to keep it slightly in line with a very colorful sunset but I went a bit crazy with it, adding greens, and dark pinks… just have fun with this part!
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Once you have slapped some color on your canvas, you can begin to blend and shape things. This is a good time to make sure you like the layout of your color placement and that it makes sense to you! You can see below I added back in a bit more black and gray over the top of my crazy sunset. I was feeling like things were getting a bit out of control and needed to reign it on in!
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To finish off this fun little project, I added more gray, black and white over the top of the sunset colors, but only on the right side as if a storm is moving in from that direction. The finishing touch was to add a few drips of black paint as an abstracted version of rain drops…just a few! I hope some of you who don’t consider yourselves painters (like me) give painting a try. Even if the finished product looks like smut…you did it, and probably enjoyed it!