The finished set
I may have mentioned this before, but I cannot draw or paint a real picture to save my life. My daughter, on the other hand, is great at drawing. She’s four years old, but her teachers and other adults tell us at least once a week that her creativity and drawing abilities are several years ahead of her age. She amazes us with the things that she comes up with and the coloring patterns that she uses. Since art is such a large part of her life already, it’s becoming an increasingly large part of my own life as I try to help her foster her talents and continue to explore new ideas and concepts. One thing that we like to do together is draw on canvas boards. Usually, I try to give her an idea, and then let her run with it, but I wanted to create something on my own just to see what I was capable of coming up with. I attempted to take actual photos and see if I could paint them, but that proved to be too hard for me, so instead I’ve decided to do abstract paintings since there really is no wrong with them.
My first painting was completed over a year ago now (I can’t believe that it’s been that long already!). I can honestly say that it’s still by far my favorite, and you can see it here, if you fee so inclined. After this painting was completed, I knew that I wanted to do something on a larger scale for my bedroom. Up until a couple months ago, over our bed we had a tiled print that we made using The Rasterbator of a self-portrait that our daughter had taken of herself a couple of years ago. We made no efforts to maintain the print which was on plain white printer paper, and after a while, much of the bottom of it had ripped, but it was also never intended as a permanent solution.
Over the course of the last several months, I’ve been working on a series of paintings that would go with the color scheme of our bedroom and the art that we already had in it. The project probably shouldn’t have taken anywhere near as long as it did, but between school, the holidays and me getting this website started, everything else got put on the back burner. I’m quite pleased with the final results, but clearly, I’m not Picasso and by no means would I go so far as to say that they are good works of art. I’m pleased because it’s my first real attempt at art on a large scale and I think the three pieces work individually and as a set. If you’re wondering, however, I really like the one on the left the most of the three. It was the last piece to be finished. You can see each in more detail after the jump, and if you have any suggestions or recommendations on how I can improve my future paintings in the future, I’d love to hear them!
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