I gave the second canvas a nice, thick yellow backdrop, making it a lovely place to begin painting a new bird. It was exciting to start a new painting experiment, but the first experiement went downhill quickly.
The original canvas had a really lovely picture of one of the Minions from “Despicable Me”. I painted over it with yellow, and started with a green bird. The green was hideous, but I pursued the bird anyway, adding more and more colors, hoping to create a beautiful plummage for the emerging bird. This is the only shot of the bird I really care to share here. I painted over the canvas again with a dark blood- red, and started anew.
Here are some lovely yellow blobs that I’ll call “the flock”. After adding a bit of black, blue and white to the blobs, “the flock” remains this way in the Arctic Room.
I like those birds! They look a little ungainly – if I had wings I would probably fly that way. The black strokes (or dark blue?) are kind of Chinese in style. Nice! I’m fond of minions, but this is an improvement.
Thanks, Alison! If I had wings, I’d probably fly this way, too.
I like the look of the larger bird in the lower left.
Thank you, Bee! I like the wings on that one.