August Painting

Good early evening y'all!!!!     I do pray that y'all are enjoying this wonderful day.    In my neck of the woods, we were supposed to have a 50/50 chance of thunderstorms, but instead, we've had about 85-90 % humidity!    UGH!!    Can I tell y'all about "bad hair" days?    This is one of those days, but hey, I'm learning to just go with the flow.   WooHoo, bad hair and all.   I am just rockin' it out and proud to have hair and proud even more to be a part of this wonderful day.

Psalm 118:24 says, "This is the day the that LORD had made; let us rejoice and be glad in it."

So, with that in mind, it kinda makes a bad hair day, still a great day!    When things are sometimes going wrong, I will sing this verse out loud over and over and over until I can rejoice and be glad.   It helps me to put things in perspective.   I have two choices.    Every day is filled with choices.   We have no idea how many choices we do make in a days time.   Because we make choices without even thinking about it.   So, back to the two choices, I can either choose to be grumpy or I can choose to be glad to be a part of the most spectacular day.   Makes no matter what day it is, or whats going on, or how bad we may think it is.    The LORD made the day, He opted for you and me to be a part of it, and we have to decide to rejoice and be glad in it.   Some times it just flat out ain't easy y'all, but if we will decide that we are going to rejoice and be glad in it, that decision alone will make rest of your day go better.    Try it y'all, it will.   There is always going to be obstacles and hurdles to overcome.   Overcoming them with a good and positive attitude will make the next one that comes along a little easier to face.    So, "This is the day the that LORD had made; I will rejoice and be glad in it."

Thank you Father, for this day, and help me to make the best of every opportunity You put before me.   Amen.

So, today was another pretty neat day for me.   We had to take hubby's truck in early this morning to have a sensor in it replaced.   When we got back from taking the truck in, I fixed breakfast for us and then headed off to my once a month activity.   Oil Painting!    I have to say that I am in love with it.   This is the second one I have done and I just can't say how much I truly enjoy it.   I did take step by step pics like I did in June when I took the first class.   I hope you enjoy the pics and watching my canvas come alive.

The lighting was not good, so my pics are not great at all plus I had to cover faces up, that's why there is some funny white spots on some of the pics.  This first pic is of the liquid white covering the whole canvas for the oil paint to float over and spread easily.   Then, we took our yellow and laid in some sky.

This one, we added a bit of red to the top of the canvas and then around  in the yellow to create a pinkish, orange sky in areas.

Next we used the blue to make our water.  I wanted mine to look like it was kinda choppy water.

Next we used black and white to create gray and we used it to make a far away, distant mountain range.   The smaller your mountain range looks, the farther away it is.   The farther away it is, the less detail the eyes can make out.

Next, we took two more colors, I think one was a dark green and a lighter green and mixed them together and started putting in our greenery and land mass on the right hand side of the canvas.

Then we took brown and white and used our little liner brush and twirled it and made a sharp point and drew in our dead trees and limbs.

Then we mixed some green and yellow and laid in a little of that all over just to give some highlights all over the greenery.   It really perks it up some.

In this pic we took a brush that we had wiped off and laid it at the bottom of our greenery and pulled down, just to blur the line and make shadows in the water.

Next we took out knife blade a got a line of the white and green and then laid it in the area at the water we had just blurred a bit to make the foamy look of lapping water.

Next, we took the really dark mixture and and made another land mass on the left hand side and took our brush and drew upward to make the look of grass on the knoll.

We took our liner brush and the brown and white paint and made more little dead twigs and weeds along the bank.   We took one of the larger brushes again and tapped it into the green and yellow and tapped that over our little land mass  and it makes the little trees and twigs look like that actually grew out of the soil.

This is my finished and framed picture.   I am so thrilled with it.    I am so thrilled with meeting new people and making new friends.    I wish you could have seen my husband when he seen it.   His face lit up like a Christmas tree.   And of course, that just made me tickled pink, y'all.

I have been the worlds worst person about not doing things, because I thought I had to be perfect.   Well, I'm not perfect, no one is, so I'm trying to get over that and just have fun.    I believe what ever we invest time in, we need to try to have fun doing it.   If we do, it will show in the end results. 

Like I said earlier, this is my second painting.   The first one I done was on June 16th.   If you missed it, look on the right hand side of my blog and go to June and then scroll till you see "A Special Day" and you will see it.   It is so much fun and relaxing.

So, this is another "fun little piece" of life.    Hope y'all enjoyed it and I hope y'all will come back again real soon.    Have a great rest of the day.

God Bless Y'all!!!    Remember, God loves y'all and so do I!  hugs, Patty