Happy Feet
14 x 18 Oil on Canvas
I discovered something the other day that made me smile. I love to finish a painting, it gives me a great feeling of satisfaction to have done it and completed it. Back in the day when I did commercial interiors, my projects could take anywhere from 8-9 months to 2 years or more. That is a long time to wait for the feeling of accomplishment and completion, now it is 3-8 hours wha-hoo! The Happy Feet painting you see above took me 3 days working on it 2-3 hours at a time and I thought that was long. When I was having a wee moment of complaining on this 3 day time span, my friend, Kelley, said well, of course, it takes a little longer each pair of shoes... it's like a mini little still life on it's own. I took this in and realized that it was fun to see each pair of shoes come alive with paint and therefore felt the sense of accomplishment after each pair.
Amy, this is a very fun painting! I just love it! It also looks like it was very difficult, all that detail! Wow, so impressive! Great job!
ReplyDeleteAbsolutely fabulous!!! Is this from your closet??? It's such a wonderful story. Love how the pair at the bottom are softer than the ones close up. Great job. How nice to be painting again!!
ReplyDeleteSO glad you went ahead and finished this! You're right, her shoes are WAY cool! Now... find another friend who had cool shoes, and do DIFFERENT shoes in a different set-up! Shoes are fun! Or.... just paint Sophie. Who, BTW, is a star in her own right....
ReplyDeleteI just might have to paint some more shoes; are shoes considered interiors? I have so many ideas of what to paint...so many ideas I will have to paint more... oh gosh you might have twist my arm harder
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