DIFFERENT STROKES – A FORUM CHALLENGE – FEBRUARY 2022

[tuscanny Moderator oil pastels]

David – lovely!

Merri – both are cool!

Christel

[LavenderFrost Moderator, Acrylics]

David, nice grouping. I can imagine them like a family posing for a photo with big smiles on their faces.

Merri, both are nice and bright. The crop actually works well on the first one.

C&C always welcome. Michelle

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[Mayfly]

David – Nicely done – great color, the variety of poses in the flowers is well done, and I like the wavy feel of the leaves.

Merri – Both are super – I like how you gave these a Van Gogh feel. Nice bright colors too.

Carl

[Charlies Mum Administrator (Maureen)]

Merri, glad you could post these. I like the joyful feeling if the first but I reall live the treatment if the second … reminds me of when I used to make enamel jewellery, the bright, molten colours and the fluidity. Lovely!

Cheers, Maureen

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[Dorrart]

Merri, wonderful pair of paintings.  I really like the fluid line work of the 2nd one, it reminds me of Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, or Gauguin.  Lovely work.

Thanks all for comments on mine!

 

- David

"Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working." --Picasso

[ColinS, Moderator, Victoria British Columbia]

David– Great that you were able to join in. Very nice painting, with a real punch of yellow and blue to chase away the February blahs.

Merri Great paintings! I like both of them. The first flower has a real -shake-your-hair-out looseness to it. I also like the second with the outlines around the petals in the central flower.

"None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm." - Henry David Thoreau

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[Merriweather]

Thanks all for the nice comments on mine.

( Yes it is a challenge when the dob of paint starts to form a film within a short while because of the heat,  so it’s a bit like digging into the donut to get to the jam-  trying to find paint in the dob that is still fluid.)?

LavenderFrost Moderator, Acrylics wrote:

I can imagine them like a family posing for a photo with big smiles on their faces.

That is just the best analogy .    well said.

Painting is a complete distraction. I know of nothing which, without exhausting the body, more entirely absorbs the mind. Winston Churchill

[rose]

David- very nice! the blues are as vivid as the yellows, that is a painting you can hang in a place that needs some pizazz!!
Merri-i really like how it flows, the middle sunflower really pops.

thank you WC artist community for all you feedback!!

[Dorrart]

Colin, thanks for the comment.  I am glad I popped in and noticed the challenge.  Very enjoyable.

Merri, thank you for the comment.  I like Michelle’s analogy as well.  I did put some thought into the placement, glad it worked out in that manner.

Rose, I gave it to my wife for her craft room.  When she designed her craft area she wanted all vivid colors, bright rainbow color rug, one of my few abstract paintings in all bright colors and we even found an orange mid century modern leather chair, which is not at all our furniture style, but the color worked great and it turned out to be amazingly comfortable too.

 

- David

"Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working." --Picasso

[ozeanbay]

David– Very nice! I really like your composition and bright colors.

Merri– Your recovered your first! I like both of them… close crop on the first and the way the center flower stands out in the second.

*****

Mine is still a work in progress…

[rose]

that is so cool David!!

thank you WC artist community for all you feedback!!

[Charlies Mum Administrator (Maureen)]

How apt that so many of us painted sunflowers (Ukraine’s national flower, I’m told) in those blues and yellows (Ukraine’s) colours.

I’m sure all our thoughts are with the Ukrainians at this time.

Cheers, Maureen

Forum projects: Plant Parade projects in the Florals/Botanicals forum , WDE in the All Media Art Events , Different Strokes in Acrylics forum .

[Virginia (vmrs) Administrator]

David & Merri, what beautiful dynamic paintings.

So true, Maureen. It’s a tragedy.

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[Mayfly]

Charlies Mum Administrator (Maureen) wrote:

How apt that so many of us painted sunflowers (Ukraine’s national flower, I’m told) in those blues and yellows (Ukraine’s) colours. I’m sure all our thoughts are with the Ukrainians at this time.

Amen

Carl

[ColinS, Moderator, Victoria British Columbia]

Charlies Mum Administrator (Maureen) wrote:

How apt that so many of us painted sunflowers (Ukraine’s national flower, I’m told) in those blues and yellows (Ukraine’s) colours.

I’m sure all our thoughts are with the Ukrainians at this time.

Well said, Maureen. I did not pick this aspect of the monthly theme with Ukraine in mind, so it is one of those strange coincidences.

"None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm." - Henry David Thoreau

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