Art Project PART 1

Sorry for my absence... I've been doing everything, trying to be creative and thus, totally forgot to blog!

One thing I haven’t yet mentioned is that I’m mad about frames – most preferably old, antique looking frames! I love all antique looking frames, even they are new... I’m dreaming about my own home and how I would decorate the walls with paintings, pictures, photos and art.

I found these golden frames from a flea market some time ago and I had to buy them! They are not that big as they may seem on the picture, but they are just the right size to put next to each other on the wall.

There were cross-stitch flowers in the frames and I knew that something must be under them. Removing the back, these photos appeared:

These pictures are quite nice but I want something more original, so I decided to draw and paint pictures of my own for the frames. I first thought of painting the frames themselves silver or black, because gold has never been my color of choice and I might lean towards silver, because shimmering colors will look good against a dark wallpaper or color – who am I kidding, they look good against any color!

I have been pondering where to use this tiny key for and now I know – on the other of the small frames I will get a striped fabric and sew this tiny key to it. What I will paint or make up for the other small frame is still a mystery...

I have already made sketches of what I’m going to paint to the biggest frame; a raven holding an antique key in its beak. I love ravens and I love keys, so it just came into my mind that I would like a picture of them both on my wall... I'm still not sure whether I'm going to paint the raven with acrylics, aquarelle, watercolor, etc. I love painting oil colours but I simply can't afford them right now...

It is yet unknown how this little project of mine will progress and how fast. I’m eager to get these frames on my wall, though!

Finding The Spark

I've been found the spark for drawing and paintng again. It started in one evening when I decided to take a pencil in my hand and see what happens. I sketched a woman and it just popped in my head that I should do mental illnesses with a woman figure describing how they might feel - I don't know from all of them how they really feel, I can only imagine. The first one I sketched was "schizophrenia". And it was an interesting journey trying to think how every mentall illness might feel and deciding how to draw them. I made eight of them, still one missing and the last one I made so far was "anorexia" - I don't know if it's a mental illness but an illness whatsoever. Mental illnesses are a hard subject but I somehow got into it and just kept going.

 I went and bought some canvas', acrylic paints and carbon paper. I first sketched a woman and then drawed it clear to another paper and then I traced it to a canvas with a carbon paper. And then I just started to paint.

I needed to go and buy some new brushes even I had started to paint already and stumbled across that so many of the brushes are made either from pig mane, ox hair or pony hair and as a vegan I would not use anything which is came from an animal. Luckily I found some synthetic brushes by Reeves.

I have also taken out my violin again in hoping to get to play it. I tried to look up courses of study for violin, piano and singing but they were all full so now I'm on the waiting list but propably have to look for someplace else. Hopefully I will find one.