still creating

Yesterday was a full day.

A big chunk of the day was spent working on the design of my new business cards!  I sketched out a design for my logo this past summer. 

My graphic designer brother-in-law worked on cleaning up my design and turning my sketch into a usable digital format.

Then yesterday I roped my husband, also a graphic designer, into helping me design the business card.  I don't know how to use Illustrator or Photoshop so I got to say things like, what if we did this... while he did all the computery stuff.  I'm excited, but I'm also second-guessing myself in terms of design, etc.  More of my fears surfacing as they tend to do.  Silly, really.

I spent the evening painting.  I usually paint during the day, so painting in the dark, with artificial light was a new experience for me.  I worked on the meadow that I'd started the other day, painting in some wildflowers.

I had something else in mind for this painting, too, but I'm not sure if it will work now that the flowers are in the way.

I also painted another sky.  Actually, a few more skies, but only one where the focus is the sky itself.  I like painting skies.  It's very soothing.

 

I added a foreground to a sky I'd worked on the other day:

Not sure what I'll end up doing with this one.  The paint misbehaved a bit and I ended up with more ground than I had wanted, but it might still work for a Queen Anne's Lace skeleton painting as I'd originally planned.

One of the skies I worked on last night dried enough for me to add part of a colorful tree that I'd been wanting to paint.

This one really did not do what I wanted.  I'll play around some more and see what happens.

Another sky, a gray one this time, dried enough for me to paint a network of tree branches. 

I plan to add some birds as inspired by a photo I took on a walk a couple days ago:

 

I also worked on the rose hip painting.

 

The branch I brought in as a model has a lot of thorns and I still need to add them.  I liked painting this one and will probably try painting some different versions.

Finally, I worked on two paintings of roses.

 

For both I used a bottle full of cut roses as a model.  I enjoyed painting them, but I wasn't happy with how either was turning out.  Of course, this was also after having been painting for hours.  It was late and I was tired.  They still need stems and bottles, so maybe they'll look less like blobs with those additions.

All in all, I am so enjoying painting, but I'm also realizing that I need some sort of instruction, too, in order to go further with what I'm doing.