Catching Up (Multi-tasking Can Backfire)

Paintings # 61, 62, 63, 64, and 65 in 100 in 100 Challenge

For those of you who have been following my blog, you may have realized I have been slower to post my painting progress in the 100 in 100 challenge lately.   I apologize for that.  I can assure you I am still painting and still participating. 

It’s just that my usual multi-tasking tendencies have been serving lately to help me procrastinate too.  That is certainly not my intention, yet I have fallen into pattern.  I have been really hard at work drawing and painting a project that I thought would be a relatively short-term one.  However, I completely underestimated the complexity of it and the time it would take me to do it. 

This is due, in part, to my inexperience in taking on such a project, but also to my tendency to procrastinate when I start to get into overwhelm.  Thankfully, I did realize this, and I really intend on finishing it.  Consequently, my efforts this past couple of weeks has been to focus on it, clear my art desk of other things that could distract me, and just get on with it!

It has paid off and I have made great strides in completing the work.  I am now in the finishing and revision stages of the task and am looking forward to sharing the completed work with you very soon.  I do want to share with you some of the work I have done in the past couple of weeks, but I am not ready to unveil it just yet.

With this in mind, what I can share with you are some close-up details, rather than the whole pictures. 

First, though, I will share 2 paintings I completed before I started focusing on my other project.

This was one of those unplanned, abstract “squiggle” paintings that I didn’t even do in pencil or pen to begin.  I just took paintbrush in hand and starting splashing paint on the page.  I haven’t been able to come up with a name other than “Green Squiggle”, so if you have a more imaginative name for it, I am open to suggestions!

 

 

Painting # 61 – Green Squiggles

I did this painting in response to a challenge I have been doing with a Plurk friend of mine, and the theme was Magical Doors.  My image that I worked on capturing was of a land beyond a doorway in a wall, that otherwise is not visible.  A magical land that only exists in the imagination.  I just want to walk through that gate in the wall to experience the flowers, trees, and purple mountains in the background. 

 

Painting # 62 – Magic Doorway

The next 3 paintings are from the project I spoke of earlier in this post, so they are close-up details only at this point.

 

 

Painting # 63 Detail

 

 

 

 

  Painting # 64 Detail (above)

Painting # 65 Detail

I also have paintings # 66 through # 71 completed, which I will post at another time so as to not bog you down with too many images at once.

Thanks for your interest and patience!  The next post will either be up later today or tomorrow.

Creatively Yours in Spirit

Arlene

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