Little did I know how much painting inspiration I was going to get out of that vegetable share I did last year. Why didn’t I think of it as an investment in my artwork this season? What was I thinking when I decided not to bother doing it again, only because I wasn’t thrilled with the selection of the produce, for eating anyway?
Every week I dragged myself across Long Island to pick up my haul and dreaded what kind of crazy leafy greens I would find, only to get so excited by all the shapes and color that I photographed everything. And then I created artwork of it all. All my complaining about painting from life rather than my photos, were dashed with the veggie awakening.
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| Rooftop Scene ©2012 Dora Sislian Themelis 9×12 Watercolor, Arches cold press paper |
Now look at me! I can’t find anything to get excited about painting. Okay, a landscape here and there, flowers in the garden, but nothing like last summer’s work.
What a drag.
So here I am, painting this and that, and making more jewelry. It’s fine. I’ve made a commitment to a one night shopping venue the first week of September so I may as well add to my inventory.
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| Greek and Turkish beads with waxed cotton cord |
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| Greek and Turkish beads with waxed cotton cord |
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| Long bead bracelet on the wrist |
The colors and shapes are interesting. I’m trying to put a positive spin on my trysts with Mr. Resistance. Not so sure it’s working for me.
your bracelets are beautiful! I feel ya on searching for inspiration — seems like it’s the hardest part of the whole painting process.
Thanks Jenny! Somehow I need to take myself on a little Artist’s date someplace interesting to get ideas going.
As an art student researching the work of the Impressionists, I have big help from this site called wahooart.com. It’s like a good art library, where, convenient for me,
works of artists are divided into art movements in history. Some of the works I had never seen before.
As the canvas prints are affordable, I ordered online a little size canvas print of my favorite,
http://en.wahooart.com/
A55A04/w.nsf/OPRA/BRUE-8EWE3X, by Claude Monet.
Hi Peter, thank you for the info!