Flowers For a Gray Day

Flowers for a Gray Day

Still Life

Oil on canvas board

$45.00

From the Laura A Pace blog:

"This is a little still life I put together this morning after a particularly rough time of storms last night. We have had nothing but rain and gray skies for about three weeks now, and it is just getting, well boring. So I set up this still life to cheer me up! Looking at these bright colors while I painted and using those bright colors on the brush, was just so enlivening. I was quite cheerful during the whole process. "

I painted this in the "normal" way. Mostly mixing paint on the palette today. I find it does tend to speed things up a bit. I'm going to keep doing that for a while as I use up a bunch of canvas boards I gessoed and sanded and gessoed and sanded yesterday. Also did some panels, but I'll save those for later. 

Himself finished the wall and floor opposite my easel so I can push everything back now. That's how I was able to do the still life finally. I still have a couple of random pieces of furniture in here I need to unload and relocate to other parts of the house. And the main huge work table need going through and emptying of the final mixed media things. Then it will be used for packaging, gessoing, and framing. And anything else that needs a big surface. Plus storage underneath.

Ever onward my cheerful friends.