My creative process is a tad unexplainable, mostly because I work a little backwards.(you should see me try to describe it..) It does not make it wrong and in no way is it right..but it is mine. It is pretty simple..yet complicated and it all happens right in here in the Ol' Shead-Teau. The outside is super cute...
But, after way too many years of trying to change it, organize it, empty it and re-arrange it, I have just learned to embrace it, go with the flow, enjoy the process and then clean it up and start all over.
A Simply Complicated creative vicious cycle...but mine all mine.
Anyways, a few months ago, as I was working on the project for the Apprentice piece I told you about, I was also working on this:
(which is another way I work..like on 10 things at once). Anyways, I created the above canvas, looked at it, sorta liked it and then put it on the pile of the 1001 other things I have made, looked at, liked and then put away.
Fast forward to this past Monday...I came across it again and did not like it so much. Actually, it is not that I did not "like it" (see, I told you I work backwards) I just felt like it needed something..like a big squirt of white paint:
Don't freak out people...it is just paint, for the love of Pete!
I wiped the paint over the canvas, added a little of this, took off a little of that, added layers of paint, then wiped it off, painted more on, wiped it all off...used a little puffy paint and I am liking the final (key word FINAL) outcome:
very subtle change, but just something about it makes me love it. A Simply Complicated piece of Art...sounds like a good name for something...
Gotta go.
it's beautiful Stephanie. I love it.
Posted by: Sandra Smart | September 01, 2011 at 05:59 AM
I like it too!! Looks great!
Posted by: Laura | September 01, 2011 at 06:27 AM
You never cease to amaze me! Love it!
Posted by: Heather | September 01, 2011 at 11:18 AM
Love it! I love white paint for this very reason! :)
Posted by: Tina | September 02, 2011 at 07:47 AM
What a difference the white paint makes. Question: Does the shed teau have air conditioning?
Posted by: Patty | September 09, 2011 at 03:16 PM
why yes Patty, it sure does and man have I been using it!
Posted by: stephanie | September 10, 2011 at 06:16 AM
I adore this canvas...I know you will laugh when I tell you....I am a beginner, I have a piece of chipboard which I placed guesso, two colors of paint, stamped an imagine...and yes, white paint will be my friend...cover and redo...luv all your work...wish I could be a quarter of the artist you are...I guess practicepracticepractice..but I want to be good now...hahahahaha
-annie t.
Posted by: Annie Thompson | January 15, 2013 at 02:47 PM