Your Does of Modern Art Monday

For some really strange reason, I had the sudden urge to create some modern abstract art for R's nursery. Luckily I had all the supplies on hand because I often buy things with the intention of doing something with them, then totally lose focus and they end up in basement storage.

After about and hour or two with layering and trying different patterns, I created what I call "Kitten in the Window Sill" because this painting has a lot of fun colors and it makes me smile when I look at it. (S said he "didn't get it", I said it's modern art, of course you don't get it, no one does.)

 

I didn't use anything fancy - just an 11 x 14 canvas, some acrylics (the cheap $0.59 kind, which I would say splurge the extra $0.50 for the more expensive ones, you get MUCH better coverage per stroke), and a 1.5" Purdy brush.

I've already started working on the second piece of artwork with the other canvas I had that's going to hang below it, but let me preface this picture by letting you know how RAW this is right now. Like it looks like a 7 year old made it. 

 

See where the paint isn't getting full coverage? That's why I said splurge for the slightly more expensive paint, otherwise you have to go do triple coats over everything. Getting to this point had taken me like an hour, so I had to stop and walk away since this is only my base coat and there's a lot more left to do, but I'll be sure to show you the finished product. The beauty of it is if I end up hating it, I can just keep painting over it until I like it. 

Truth be told, I actually like that above painting so much I'm going to see if I can get it printed on some cards to use as Thank You notes. There's just something really fun and whimsical about it.

And I'll give you a quick update on my New Year's Resolution - I'm still working on organizing my time a little better, mainly, I would like to get on a really good 10PM to 6AM sleep schedule. Those 3 to 4 hours I would have before R wakes up would be perfect for getting stuff done. I'm not here yet though, last night it was more like 11PM to 9AM, soooo I'm still slowly adjusting a little bit every night. Part of that two will be cutting out any naps for myself during the day so I will be super tired when 10PM rolls around.

Okay enough play back to work - Happy Monday Y'all.