It's done!

You know that painting that I've been working on, well, forever? I finished it this morning! Connecting with an old artist friend on Facebook and meeting a new artist friend at dinner last week inspired me to get off my lazy ass and "just do it." It doesn't have a name yet, but something will come to me.

Thoughts? I worked it much more abstract that I usually do and that caused me some degree of angst. Compositionally, I like the receding figures, and the two bending at the waist-- although I kind of got lost in a clutter of arms and legs and it doesn't read as well as I wanted it to. But you learn something with every painting and I learned that you CAN get rusty if you don't work at it with some degree of regularity. This one's so rusty it needs Rust-oleum. But that's okay. There are some elements I really like (the face on the guy to the far right, the red shoes on the guy in the middle). I wish my photography skills were a little bit better and the glare a little less-- but trust me, these are the high points of the work.

Next? Although I love the no-fuss aspect of acrylics, you can't beat the lusciousness of oils. I want to go back to them. I bought some water soluble oils a while back, so I think I'm going to try to find them in the black hole that is my basement. Experiment a little. Also, I'm thinking about a sweet little pastel drawing for a friend as a Christmas present. The important thing is that I have my mojo back. Finally.