Friday, October 17, 2014

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!



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