Sharon's blog: Painting and things

Sometimes I get bogged down, glued to the computer, fingers flying over keys. Sometimes I get stuck in plant files, discovering new things to covet, new plants of interest. Sometimes I simply need to take a break.

Now that gardening chores are diminishing, now that there are no new blooms, now that the sun lays low on the horizon, the outside doesn't call to me as it did earlier.

So I paint. I write for an hour and I paint for an hour.

It keeps me busy, keeps my mind happy, and my fingers are glad to be doing something new and different.

This painting is a commissioned piece, and at this point only the far background is recognizable. You see, I paint from the back to the front, overlaying paint as I go. It will be a bit abstract, but the colors are to match the linens that decorate a room. It's a lake scene, but with abstract colors. As I move from the back to the front, the foreground will eventually show birch or sycamore trees lining the edges of the lake. A yellow lake? Well, you'll just have to wait and see.

And here are the colors I'm working from.

Stay tuned.

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