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Hi friends, try to read this :-P
Well, S... happens. The abstract the other day was a fragment of this Painting... BEFORE I SPOILED IT TOTALLY. Where was my brain? I dont know.
My intentions were to dab acrylic splashes of different colors on the upper half part and after that, painting negative painting around it, so it ended up with the vase with flowers, where the vase had the original abstract colors. Well, I got that, only....the colors didnt want to stay and I couldnt understand why....I thought my acrylics were too transparent, so I thought, It just needs one more coat, which i did the next day. BUT NO, it didn´t do anything good. I simply couldnt figure out what was wrong. Ok, so just a minute before I jumped to bed last night, I gave it a layer of medium gel, which uses to seal the colors, but the more I tried to paint the transparent medium to it, the worse it got. I just smeared the colors. THEN it hit me, why this s... happened. OMG! I had forgotten, that the first beautiful abstract painting was done with WATERCOLOR! Two days were gone, before I came to that conclusion. I must have too much to think about these days....or....UGH! I am getting old.
Have a nice sunday. Cloudy, but light weather and 11C this morning.
Comments (11)
anaber
Hello dear Helle:) I am not commenting as you know, sadly! But i see almost everything in the breaks that i have along the day and i was looking at your painting now and loving it so much! At first sight, i remembered immediately Monet..YES!!MONET! and I had a smile also with all that you did in this painting and all your efforts and searches. You are simply amazing Helle! and so it is this painting! To me, there is nothing wrong here! and You reached out a wonderful result. After read what you wrote, Helle, i had to write this here ! Thank you for being here everyday and for washing my eyes with so much beauty and for your persistence in everything that you do! You are a great artist:)
durleybeachbum
I actually think parts of this are great! but what a bummer to spoil the original!
X-PaX
Very nice painting Helle.
sossy
I also thought about Monet! soft and poetic painting! when I would have had the misery I would cry lol but dont know about acrylic colors I painted with oil colors long ago 😊
auntietk
I wish my screwups looked as good as yours! :) I can only imagine what it would have looked like if it had turned out the way you had hoped. This is lovely!
jeroni
Elegant and beautfiful composition
giulband
Very fine painting !!
anahata.c
I can see the struggle here, yes: The strokes and rushing lines do show you struggled with this, did it over, messed up things you wanted, etc etc. If you had written nothing in your description, I would've thought, instead, what a vital, explosive experiment. Because, while you struggled with what you originally wanted, the end result has a big burst of energy, with very dark passages and very vivid ones. (I mean emotionally dark, some parts feel murky, uncomfortable, dying to bust out---these are good things in art, truthful, exposed; and too many of us are afraid to show them.) It's less Monet to me, and more 20th C abstraction. I love the big blurbs and messy overlap of hues. I love the free and bulbous interpretation of "blooms" with those fast and furious brushstrokes. This is the very energy-laden, whooshing side to your art; and when you show it, your work jumps and leaps and battles and bursts. And this has ambiguity---something we learn to get 'rid' of in class, but which is at the heart of truly personal art. I really like this: In fact, it looks like it was resurrected from an old plaster painting, as if it were a fresco that got stained with age; and you resurrected it and cleaned it up, the stains still in tact. You love decay, right? Well this has striking decay. A vital and wild interpretation of flowers, Helle. (Thanks to Ana and others for their appreciations!) I really, really like this!
crender
Wonderful !!!
RodS
Look at it this way, Helle...... You just discovered Monet's long lost secret technique! Wonder what he'd have done with Photoshop and a Wacom... I still think this is wonderful - and as Tara said, I wish my 'blunders' looked this good!
kgb224
Outstanding work Helle. God bless.