I can feel the joy !

AWW! I am so glad I got into RR today, otherwise I would have missed this awesome painting. Wonderful abstract and I so love the colors and composition :)

I love this, what a great abstract!

Fine abstract.

Good work

Outstanding work Andrea. God bless.

Great experimenting :o)

Very good find and colors

Demands attention..great colours

Well done Andrea, I do so like this, I love the raw edge to it. There is a certain freedom in this but I sense that you have control even if you allow yourself to embrace chance elements in the overall composition of this piece. The pleasure is in the creating and ultimately the desire for a pleasing result... the best moments are when we are not fully conscious of a driving direction during the creative process and it leads to great results. Well done.

SUPERLATIVE WORK

interesting abstract work

You have totally blown me away. First of all, the photograph is brilliant. The light, composition, everything ... I can see what motivated you to re-make the image with paint. The fact that you used paint (no matter what type) on a piece of plastic from the drugstore leaves me speechless. Whatever creative, artistic thing happened in your brain that said, "Well, this is just the thing," was inspired. I would never have thought of that in a million, billion years. I am in awe of your creativity, skill, and life experience. Wow. Oh ... did I remember to tell you I like it? Everything I said could be true even if I didn't like it, but oh my yes ... I DO like it!!

Good acrylic abstract of whatever the image is supposed to represent, A. You employ a more straight forward brush technique than I do.

A certain primitive energy to this that I like very much. And I could swear that is an owl's face at top just right of center. The original photo is gorgeous. I love the mix of colors.

True "Recycling" :)

Wonderful, I love it, Andrea!

The joy of artistic expression in all forms. Love it.

did a wonderful looking

love the beginnings .. and equally the ending! Truly an awesome and beautiful abstract .. I would hang it up in my house. Isn't that the after all the gold standard? If someone would willing hang our work in their house, in a public area where all can see it? I love the colors, they bring out the gypsy in my soul. The textures are too cool. I prefer looking at it from a little distance because that way this appears to be a door ..don't even ask how I see a door.

Bright and glorious .

Nice work here and I like the postwork on FlickR.

It's amazing that this started with that postworked photo---the photo has all kinds of mystery to it, intense light and shadow, and the crop brings us into the middle of it...But your painting makes the glass (and I assume straws or stirrers of some kind) one of several bits of a jazzy montage-abstract, and I love the reddish tones throughout, and the pop-ish treatment of the surfaces, and the way you divided the piece (esp the glass) into segments of little suburbs and colonies. And the play of textures---the textured paint on the right side: Is that just from the plastic, or did you help it with your brushwork: Whatever it is, it makes a terrific striated rhythm, esp with those reds against blues. It's all segmented and flattened, the way Matisse flattened his images into segments and forms. Fun, immediate, playing around, like a mini fest. And you did this on packaging??? I'm with Tara, though I fully understand why you'd do that---it just spoke to you, and you did it. Why not. I love when you play like this, and the piece feels like a montage made by a glass, to give to a cup and saucer friend who's having a bad week and needs cheering up. More, please.