All About Colour(ful art)

The Mission: Possible ladies are at it again – this time around, Andrea and Karah and Kelly and Linda and KariAnne are hosting an All About Color link party.

I love surrounding myself with colour, and one of the best ways to do that is with art. I’d wanted to try doing a painting for the longest time, but for some reason I kept holding back. Then I added “Create a painting” to my to-do list for 2012, so I had no choice – I HAD to get a painting started and finished! This was my first attempt:

Not exactly the Mona Lisa, but I had a great time making it (minus the paint bottle explosion followed by a 1-1/2 hour clean-up). So I decided to try another painting:

So much fun! I couldn’t stop myself, I had to paint more! This one was inspired by a peacock feather (those little spots are glitter):

I love bright colours – the brighter, the better!

Still haven’t figured out what this one looks like – what do you see?

A friend of mine said this one looks like a galaxy – I think so too :-)

Totally not how I thought this painting was going to come out, but I love the tie dye look :-)

A little ocean inspiration…

This one was inspired by the Puff series of paintings by Ottawa artists Susan Bailie.

And I created this painting for our Extreme Makeover: Kindness Edition 2012 makeover at Foster Farm Family House this past February:

So there you go, my paintings that are all about colour :-) Be sure to check out the All About Color link party for more colour inspiration. And if you have something colourful you’d like to share, you can join in at any of the five host blogs:

• The Cottage Market
• The Space Between
•  Eclectically Vintage
• it all started with paint
• Thistlewood Farm

Have a colourful day!

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.