As I try to decide where best to push my blogging/artwork efforts, here at WordPress or at the old Blogger, since apparently now I have 2 blogs.
Winter being what it is with ugly weather, holiday season, the new year, artwork just wasn’t making it to the schedule. Mr. Resistance is always around the corner and laughing at me. It’s not fun.
Still, I have various paintings in different stages of work: ideas, sketch, half painted, completed. Inch by inch work gets attention. If I could figure out this blogging thing I’d be on my way! But not happening, so I slog around on the last two social media platforms I use these days, twitter and IG.Posts of artwork in their stages make the grade. Here and there a finished piece and some people like or comment.
One lovely lady I’m following on Instagram is a chef of Greek origin with a cookbook of regional Greek cuisine under her belt and some really great recipes. We will occasionally like each other’s photos. She’s so nice to say she loves my paintings and just asked me if I would do cover art for her second cookbook. Well, yeah, I would!
She gave me an idea of how she’d like the artwork to look and I went with it in watercolor on paper. I was glad to move away from the oil painting I’d been working on for a breather like this. A quick sketch of a table top with a Greek seascape scene in the background and I was off to work.
Happily, my Greek chef was pleased with my work and I’m going ahead to add details. I’ll have more info on everything soon.
This work is almost finished and it feels really good.
It’s just such a lovely place for calm and meditation. A place to “bath in the forest” as I’ve read. This particular day I planned to paint in watercolors here instead of the other favorite place, the beach. That day the beach might have been a good choice, but I wasn’t sure if the weather was warm enough. At the Gardens the sun was really strong and hot. Maybe it was better that way.
