Monday, March 19, 2012

My Second Floor Challenge...

Here is my project completed for the very 1st Challenge of the Second Floor challenge issued by Julie Fei-Fan Balzer and Nathalie Kalbach. The challenge was to create with gold paint...not hard for me because I had on hand the most fabulous acrylic paint by Eco Green Crafts in Pure Gold. I decided to take the piece that I had just finished that really pushed my envelope and use that as my base. For one moment I hesitated and thought that I wanted to make a color copy so I could play with the copy but then I remembered the challenge...take it to the SECOND FLOOR. So I hiked up my big girl panties and used the painting I had just finished{below}.

I first attempted to just let the paint drip down from the top but it didn't want to cooperate...1st fail. Then I grabbed some punchinella and started dabbing around...it was OK but not what I wanted in fact I would say...2nd fail. Not to be outdone by this challenge I continued to play around, add some more doodles, went back over the flowers with my black pen...added more white dots...more black dots and the final splashes of gold. It took a couple of days...I would get to a certain point and stop...coming back and looking...adding...going away...coming back...you know the routine. Finally I felt it was complete but the longer I looked at it I knew something was lacking...I ran the edges of the paper through the gold paint and liked how it edged the painting. Now I felt it was finished. 




I realized that I needed to let this painting percolate in my mind and that it was ok to keep working on it until it felt right. I also realized that for this challenge I needed to reflect on what I had done. I'm really thrilled with my finished project and I really feel I took this to my Second Floor!

Hope you enjoyed and I would love to hear your thoughts on my painting...thanks for stopping by...

Time to get inky,
Martha

6 comments:

  1. I really love the outcome! So glad you took it to the second floor- thank you so much for joining us :)

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  2. I love what you did with this...I adore the added dots and circle..I happen to love circles..I use them in everything..Im a bit obsessed..when I dont feel like doing any thing..I draw circles..Lol...the gold looks great and the dripping down just adds an ethereal look to an already beautiful piece..Nice to meet you Martha..!

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  3. mmm don't know which one to choose. I liked the original, but also how you added all the dots and golden paint. Love it!

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  4. Love seeing the evolution of this page, Martha. You rocked it out with the gold.

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  5. I love how you kept coming back to it and letting what added sit until the next time you came back, it came out great!

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