I have been busy with lots of stitching, none of which is finished, and my painting challenges. I have also started a course with Connie Solera of
Dirty Footprints Studio called
Painting the feminine.
I am really enjoying the course and I felt the need to share my process with my first (official) page
I picked up an oil pastel and just played and these shapes came up. They could be babies, or women, or even leaves and seeds. I wasn't sure yet.
I left them for a while and eventually, I started adding paint, and got lost, so no photos.
This is where I got to. I started colouring the little areas and shapes in the middle, but they felt wrong, so...
I painted over it. I tried straight orange and yellow, but they were too transparent,so I added some white to them and added more, making a sort of stucco texture.
I still felt I needed something to connect the two figures
I had an idea of some spirals, but I wasn't sure, so I put a page protector opened up over the top and tried it out with posca markers. I liked that, but I added some dots as well.
Finally, I added more dots around each figure and the eyes. I call this connectedness and for me it is about how the feminine connects us in our hearts.
Whilst I was working on this, which took a while and a lot of reflection, I also started painting over an old canvas, which was covered in flowers and a vase.
The same shape in another incarnation. I was actually using up all the leftover paint on my palette and was not happy with the colours, but they have given me the form I wanted, so this is a work in process and we will see how it changes over the week!
Happy creating!
