This is my painting for today. This morning I felt that I wanted to continue working in the same style as my two previous paintings, Taking the Plunge and The Stupa, but at first I dismissed that idea because I thought I should ‘do something else now’. Fortunately I am starting to recognize these undermining thoughts as yet another shape my inner critic likes to take, and so I could just ignore it and continue finding out what I wanted to do for today. I am really loving the colors and atmosphere from the last two paintings and so I knew today’s painting would follow the same path.
When I started painting tonight, this image of a door is what came up. The door knobs in reality are painted with copper metallic paint, but that is not rendered well on the scanned image. Initially I also wanted to add some kind of figure again, but when I came at that stage I felt it wasn’t suitable for this image.
So The Door it is then. It looks like there is a series in the making…
The Door, mixed media (acrylic paint and colored pencil) on canvas board.
Size: 24 x 30 cm (9.4 x 11.8 inch). The original artwork is sold, but you can purchase a giclee print of it here.
Tomorrow you will not see a new blog post from me because I don’t have time to paint. And yes, that means I will be making more than one painting on one of the next 98 days… 😉
This is really beautiful Juna! I love the colors and serenity. If you are loving this, I say go with it. Each one will be different and unique.
Thanks Lynnette, I’ll definitely do that! 😉
Really striking image. I know what you mean about your inner critic saying you need to do something else. I made a journal page I really liked the other day, and then I was thinking I want to do more with the same shapes and colours and then I immediately thought ‘no I should do something different’. So I’m ignoring that thought and going to create similar pages and see where it goes! I think we can only evolve if we really put our passion into what we want to do and do it again and again.
I don’t have time to paint every day either (hence I’m doing 30), but I’ll definitely be doing more than 1 some days when I have the time!
Yes exactly, Iris! And I am discovering that now I am creating more paintings in the same style, they seem to reinforce each other. So yes, keep on creating similar pages in your journal and see what it brings you!
Beautiful Juna!
I like the mystery that is in this painting..
Love your style. Wishing I could step through that door and take a peek at what is behind it.
It really feels like a series is in the making 🙂
Gorgeous, mystical painting.