Painting Again...

So I started painting again. That's pretty much it, I started painting again and practise really does make perfect because if you don't practise you end up not painting very well. Needless to say, what I am about to share is horrible. Don't get me wrong if you look at it quickly the painting looks pretty cool. If you look at it, like really look at it, you can see how bad it really is. By "bad" I mean I am not following any rules and my shading is way off as in doesn't make any sense, but I don't honestly care. I am just happy to be painting again. And if I am going to be completely honest, it was kind of nice to break the rules and not care. The absolute best part was I glued garbage to canvas and painted it however I wanted. 

I don't really like the finished look. It is much too bright for me. I should have added some brown to my paint to "muddy" up my colors. With that being said, I probably went for the bright colors because I was sick of the clouds and rain and needed some cheery colors. 

If you are interested the supplies I used were all bought from Michaels. Inexpensive acrylic paint. You know the kind I am talking about...the $2.00 bottles you don't mind sharing with your children :) The canvas is also bottom of the barrel, multi-medium use. And I used a white craft glue to adhere my "garbage". Oh, the clock piece is a die I have (Tim Holtz) and the textured paper behind the clock piece is a piece of used round sandpaper which I absolutely love. Hubs found that for me for this project :) Hindsight, should have kept it for something else. I guess I just have to get him to build something so I can have another ;)

List of garbage:

~ ripped cardboard

~ paper ribbon

~ drywall tape (yes, I use it for a lot of things)

~ scraps of paper that I dry embossed

~ tissue paper from a mandarin orange box

~ crinkled cardstock 

Hope I've inspired some of you to get creative, or at least inspired you on what not to do. LOL. Side note, that's not really relevant, the pink candle and candle holder are from my mother in law. They burn really nice. Don't have any wax run off. Does that make sense? I am currently using them to hold my washi tape. 

Take care :)