October 29, 2010

Before and After painting


Before

In my last post I mentioned my tendency to add paint to pictures on my wall. Well the Christmas show at our local Art Gallery is less than a couple weeks away. It's an under 100 show. Under a hundred dollars and under a hundred square inches. I'm excited that my work got juried in but I'm not getting as many paintings ready for it as I planned. My solution is to rework some paintings on my wall that just weren't up to snuff.

Above is a hummingbird painting I did as a challenge for James Parker's blog back in the spring. Below it is the new and improved version. It may not look better because of the photo but I think it is. The plain blue background of the first one gave it a paint by number look.


                                                      

After

7 comments:

  1. Nicely done, Bonnie. I like the red to the top of his head too. Wishing you the best.

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  2. The new background looks much better. Good luck and lots of sells at your show!

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  3. Hope you sell lots of paintings, good luck!

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  4. Good luck Bonnie, looks amazing!

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  5. i love the addition of the clouds! i couldn't see the difference until you pointed it out! it's even more fantastic!

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