BYE-bye sunny sky.

Welcome to oil paint on canvas approach number two. Due to how long my first attempt, my flower girl took me to finish, I downsized my canvas quite a bit for this one. The colors for this one were pretty fun to work with. There was a lot of mixing involved, & getting the sky to gradually get darker & darker was quite a task. It's a piece that symbolizes how quickly times of happiness can turn to times of dismay, sometimes by the loss of just one thing.

"Loss is nothing else but change,

& change is Nature's delight."

-Marcus Aurelius

FLOWER girl.

“Stop crying your heart out.”

-Oasis

A while back, I had a coupon for the craft store and picked up a big canvas on a whim. I then learned that canvas requires oil paint because it's thick enough to not be absorbed into the canvas, and realized oil paint is actually fairly expensive. In all reality, the coupon really cost me money rather than saved it. Touché coupon, touché. So, that led to my first attempt at oil painting,

my FLOWER girl.

 Oil paint is much trickier to work with that I would have assumed. Most colors that you want you have to mix together yourself, which makes the process much longer. Since it paints on so thick you can only work with very small areas at a time, which also adds time to the process. I'm not really sure where this idea came from, just one of those "trying to fall asleep, mind racing" kind of thoughts. I pictured a girl with flowers as eyes, and it just progressed from there. Most people that see it ask if it was meant to be a self-portrait or some sort, but when I pictured it I actually saw her as a blonde, so no, considering I'm a brunette. (Or kind of a redhead if you count the dye jobs.) Brown hair just went better with all the colors, so it 'tis what it 'tis!