Plumeria Painting for my Mom!

I've been feeling pretty sick lately, but finally finished my mom's painting! Not many people get free art from me, but naturally the woman who gave birth to me is one of them! :)

Sometimes when I paint, I won't be interested in the subject. That's why typically when I do come up with a painting, I know I need to get it done quickly before I get bored with it. Well this was one that I started while I wasn't super interested. I love flowers, but they're not my main love to paint. So I more so started it out of obligation.
I did an outline and blocked in the colors one day........and then I lost interest. It took me weeks to get back at this one, but when you feel it, you feel it.
And man I FELT it!

For some reason just the other day I had this URGE to paint these! I NEEDED to paint these plumerias. So I practically finished it in one day. Almost.
But then I got sick. So today I picked it back up and finished it! And for not painting flowers often, I've only done maybe 2 other flower paintings in oil in my life, I'm decently proud of it :)

I know it's not perfect. I don't want it to be. But I think it's good.

The background is green spray paint. And the flowers are oil. One thing I love about doing oil on spray paint is that if you mess up on the oil, let it dry, and you can pretty much scrub it all off with turpentine. Without damaging the spray paint. So as long as you don't have layers and layers of oil paint.
A lot of people say you shouldn't paint oil over acrylic, vice versa, but I don't care. Technically speaking, it shouldn't exist. Because when oil is painted over plastic the oil can't bind to anything. Hmmm....well it works for me!

Night Waterfall

New spray painting today!

This one is similar to my Hawaiian Sunset painting, but is a night scene.
Man I will tell ya, sponges and spray paint are difficult little monsters to put together. That's possibly because of I use the crappiest, cheapest of everything. But hey, it's a poor workman who blames his tools.

Anyway. For some reason I was having difficulty getting the big shiny stars on this one. On the waterfall I tried to have a sparkle star, but I destroyed it about 4 times and had to re-do my waterfall until it became decent.

I also did this painting on the back of one of my old poster board projects from my graphic design class.....So there may or may not be a design of a man's face on the other side of this....

Using poster board.

Pro: It makes the spray paint extra shiny, so it's extra fantastic to look at.

Con: Because it's super shiny, it's extra glare prone. Making it impossible to figure out how to get a decent picture.

Someday I will put in the effort to take nice pictures of all my paintings with my nice camera, instead of my husbands iphone....

And that day will be wonderful.

Also, when painting most people will wear gloves, whether oil painting, or especially when spray painting. But not me!

Wearing gloves while painting just doesn't feel right, especially since I use my fingers for many of the textures in both mediums. Wearing gloves feels constrictive. I need to feel the paint on my fingers to know I'm doing it right.

While it is impossible to wash off my hands afterwords, I will accept the consequences!

Viva free hands!

New art Website!

Everyone go check out my new website for my art!

I put a lot of effort into it!

It'd just be fantastic if you would share it too!

Thank you!

kanoelaniart.com

Shabby Chic Night Stand in Lace

I know this isn't a painting or anything as in actual art, but it is one of my crafts!
I am so excited with how this came out!

And using the lace doilies was an absolute treasure!

It used to be just all solid black, and now it's fantastic!