Picking up painting after a decade off…
Tonight (Friday, July 3rd) at 8 pm — Open House for “Word Up”, a group exhibit featuring loads of local artists; at CycleLogik, 1111A Wellington Street. Fellow Ottawans, come on out!
A month ago, the lovely Andrea Stokes of Pink Wagon asked me to partake in this show… which starts in just under two hours. I decided that I should do this ‘properly’ and undertake a real-life painting… the first non-digital painting I’d done since graduating university over 10 years ago. It was a mixed bag of remembering how much I love the physicality of working with paint on canvas, wondering what I’d gotten myself into, really missing the power of “undo”, and worrying that I wasn’t going to like the outcome.
Thankfully, I do like it and am posting a sneak peek:
It’s a diptych called “apart + together”. Each panel is 12″ x 12″, and I did it with acrylic paint, plus a bit of pencil and fun Sharpie water-based pens.
A step-by-step of how I got here..
Below: this was very definitely the “Oh #%*!@, what have I gotten myself into?!!!” stage. I seem to encounter this for every non-digital piece I do…
Here are details of the finished piece:
I’m definitely feeling a wee bit nervous about the event tonight — if you’d asked me a decade ago if I’d ever partake in another art show, I’d have said “Not likely!” I’m not sure how solo exhibitors do it! So there you have it — and *gulp* off I go…
this is so cute! Hope the show goes well :)
Wonderful! have a blast!
Beautiful piece! I’m sure the show will be great tonight!
Fabulous Emily! Congratulations! Have a great time tonight. :)
Really cool. Hope all goes well tonight. Good luck! Get a lot of pics.
wow ~ it’s great! love the steps you’ve shown, am always interested in how people work. very exciting for you, i hope it went really well. i missed the undo feature often!!
oh so fantastic! what an amazing artist you are! so exciting for you to relaunch this wonderful part of your brilliance, nicey!
THIS IS AMAZING!!!!!
very helpful post, you should post more stuff related to this.