Abstract painting: My new obsession

You might remember a few weeks ago, I posted some pictures of a couple of paintings I made – including The OMFG Painting. You might also remember that I had a *little* accident with a bottle of white paint (I found some more paint splatters on the floor and a lamp shade yesterday). Well, in spite of the paint catastrophe, I had a great time creating those first two paintings, and since then I’ve created four more. This one was inspired by a peacock feather. The spots of white are glitter that I sprinkled on while the paint was still wet.

This one was inspired by water.

And this one was inspired by the sun – although it came out a lot more like a tie dye shirt. {Funny how that happens, my paintings never seem to come out the way I originally envision them.} It was really cool to see how the paint moved around the canvas on this one. I totally didn’t expect the colours to do what they did.

I’m not sure what this one looks like – maybe clouds in the sky at sunset?

Now that I’ve discovered how fun painting can be, I have no idea why I was so scared to paint in the first place. I love playing around with the paint on the canvas and seeing what happens, and it’s a great way to let out my creativity. I want to go out and buy a huge stack of canvases and just paint and paint and paint some more :-)

Is there something you really want to do, but fear has been holding you back from doing it? Well, don’t be scared – let yourself go and just do it!

Llinking up to Feature Friday Free-For-All over at Five Days… 5 Ways.