Paint Party Friday!

I did only a little painting today, but I did try to fit in a bit after last Friday's PPF.  With the weather getting better there is a lot to do here on the farm.  I'll share some photos soon.  But today, paintings.

I went back to two of my in-progress acrylic paintings.  First the tree and the birds.  When I left it I thought that the whitish pink flowers blended into the background too much.

So, inspired by all of the bright green flowers and new growth on the trees around here I made the flowers green instead.

I'm not sure if I want to do anything else to finish the painting or not.

Next I worked on the collaged tree with leaves made from a seed catalog.

This was a lot of fun to paint.  I'm not sure I like the shape that it became and I keep seeing a possible deer in there, so I know it's not finished.

I do think I'm done working on the painting of my peppermint geranium, though.

I worked more on the leaves and stems and painted the flowers.  I'm not really happy with it and I don't really want to fiddle anymore with it.  It was a learning experience and I enjoyed painting it.  The fact that I don't love it isn't that important.

I think I'm finished with my fuchsia, too.  I worked on painting the soil and played around a bit with sprinkling salt on the paint, thinking that it might make a nice effect.

It's funny that by the time I got around to finishing this painting, most of the flower buds had opened up.

They'll remain buds in my painting, though.

I really love how the leaves turned out and I like the flowers.  The pot and soil, I'm less happy with.  that just means I need to paint more pots and soil. 

There's so much I want to try to paint.  More and more flowers are opening here and they're all so beautiful.  I look at them and imagine how to paint them.  I'd like to add a few more to my sketchbook page.  I did work on it some more.

I kept forgetting about my wet paint dots and smearing them.  Maybe the bottom of the page isn't the best place for them.