With Tropical Storm Fay bearing down on us I have moved my painting indoors for the day. Later today I will have to go out and move some plants, but that will wait. My canvas calls!
I am doing another still life. When I started organizing my paintings into groups of four to make note/ greeting cards, I realized that over the past five years I have done only three still life paintings. Only three out of how many hundreds? Yeesh! I have three times as many abstracts and I really thought I disliked those! Guess that means I really find still lifes boring! Even this one is laborious for me. I had fun doing the background which is not realistic at all, but now that I am painting the objects in the arrangement itself I stop every 15 minutes and find something else to do. When I love what I am painting I can lose all track of time and get lost for hours. I keep hoping it will "grab" me so that I can stop checking my emails, reading posts and doing all of the other things I do to distract myself.
Maybe- just maybe it will be done and I can show it to you tomorrow- or the next day- or next week- assuming Fay does not knock out our power.
I am beginning to understand Shelly's "Perpetual Portrait". When you don't truly love what you are painting it is very hard to get it done. Shelly will seek perfection anyway. I just want to get it finished; one of the reasons her art is usually better than mine.