Last weekend I put a canvas on the easel and started painting again! It really felt good to be creating! Especially something that was larger than what I have been working on lately. This painting was strictly for fun and to hang in the spare bedroom in my house. Really it's my daughter's bedroom, but she moved away to college and took the furniture from the room, so it has been empty until last weekend. We got a new bed and moved some furniture back into the room, but the walls were empty! And of course, I have to have art on the walls! So I had to paint something to go with the new bedspread. This is what I came up with and the steps that I went through to get it there.
Steps 1 & 2:
1. I painted the canvas black.
2. I sketched the flowers on the canvas and painted red loosely around the flowers.
Step 3:
3. I mixed this golden yellow with modeling paste and applied it onto the background with a palette knife.
Steps 4 & 5:
4. I painted the flowers with red and green, both mixed with modeling paste.
5. I started to add layers on the background and flowers to add dimension and detail.
Finished painting in the guest bedroom....So what do you think? Do you ever create something for the fun of it? Or create something to match the decor?
~Beth
...that I did another one! Earlier I painted a larger painting with 5 red flowers for our guest (my daughter's when she's home) bedroom. I liked it so much that I decided to do a smaller version of it with 3 flowers. I had fun painting it also. I plan to do some other things using this texturing medium. It is a heavy gel medium that you mix with the paint to make the acrylic paint thicker and hold its texture. You can use a pallette knife to smear it onto the canvas like icing on a cake. 
