Let's face it, I'm no Georgia O'Keefe.
I'm not even close to being a painter, unless you count painting stands for the dolls or using a roller on a wall. Suffice it to say, I will not be showing you pictures of the sky mural on the guest bathroom ceiling…it totally sucked.
I think Dave is going to give it a try next. But if that doesn't work out either, then the ceiling will just be Texas sky blue, until I can afford the tin squares to go up there.
It's sad, really - not only did I not like the results (and the girl in the video made it seem sooooo easy)...but after two attempts at it, I actively disliked even messing with it - I mean, it's only paint - but what an uncooperative medium! How could my mother stand it all those years? How could she make flowers look like flowers? etc etc. WHAT HAPPENED TO MY PAINTING GENE???!!!
I had this same problem when I attempted carving, albeit my instructor was sadly lacking in teaching skills ("well, just make it LOOK like a bear…."). I know what the sky looks like (even if Judy Collins was right - I didn't know clouds at all). I know what bears look like. I'm not blind, just inept. And when you are going for realism, ineptness is not a virtue and is very frustrating.
So, after cleaning the brushes and forwarding the video to Dave, I went back to what I know…faintly abstract fiber art! Where the rules are my own, if there are any…much less stressful.
I finished another section to be added to "Frogs in the Garden" - at least that's how I think of it, so I must have decided somewhere along the line to put everything together in a large piece - funny how if you just wait long enough, some decisions will make themselves.
