So I had a great day today! I got in some art time and that always makes my days FABULOUS! After posting all the other beautiful artists work I got inspired! Thank you to everyone who have joined the blog hop - I have so enjoyed getting to know you all through your blogs. I was looking through my previous artwork and I found some paintings that I had created though they never sat right with me... have you ever had that feeling??? Sometimes I spend hours and hours painting something only to never be completely satisfied! We are such our worst inner critics aren't we? So... I hummed and hawed over a few of my paintings and realized that I would never actually do anything with them in the long run... so I cut them up! I cut them into 2"x3" inch pieces and started to glue them onto a hard canvas board.
Once they were all glued into place I placed the whole piece into a frame but ironically enough... I still wasn't satisfied. It took me awhile to figure out what the problem was. I LOVE my art when it is outlined in black! I don't know why... that's just the way I am! LOL!
I went back over each square and outlined them all in black with a sharpie marker and guess what? I am all good now... I love it! LOL! Sometimes you just have to work it out on your own right? I am glad that I did or I would stare at it for years not quite liking it!
Well, happy creating everyone! Thanks so much for your inspiration!
Hugs to you all!
8 comments:
Love it and what a great idea!!!
Kelly--this is really great the way it is, but I have a challenge for you--use this as a background and now paint one of your pretty girls on top of it. what do you think???
This is so beautiful and inspiring, Kelly !
It shows affirmation that 'There's no mistake' in ART.. it always leads to a betterment, always !
Lovely piece !
I love your artwork! This piece in particular really appeals to me.
Thanks for sharing it!
This looks amazing!! Great idea creating this collage with squares of your paintings. I am the same way about the black outline. I love when people can finish a piece without outlining it, I love the softness of way it looks but I cannot finished a piece unless it's outlined. I just can't....what is it with us hah? I guess that's just our style(O:
Kelly, WOW, I love this! What a great way to "upcycle" our otherwise 'useless' art that we're not satisfied with! The black outlines really set the piece off. I love that I found myself trying to "put the pieces together" to determine what the original artworks looked like! Very unique, and interesting art you've created here. Happy Weekend and Creating!
I love this idea Kellly - really cool how it turned out.
are you still in sketchbook project group? Havent seen you for a while!
Cheryl
I love this idea. And I also love Janet's idea to use it as a jumping off point.
I'll let you know what I come up with.
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