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Sun Flower Wall

  

Starting is the hardest part!

Apparently wandering around the house, circling the room a few times, mixing colors and sipping wine for a period of time are prerequisite tasks and part of the process. Maybe it is fear, but it seems a common thing among artists. You stall, you fret, and you do everything you can to put off what you can't wait to work on.

Finally, with watered down acrylics and using almost a watercolor-style method, the ‘sketching’ begins. This process can seem almost like doing battle. After all uncooperative lines and placements are whipped, the basic composition is now on the wall. At left is the initial sketch.

Taupie, or Fatty Pants as we like to call him, sleeps below the piece. This will become a favorite spot for my various four legged family members.


Wall from distance


Now I begin to fill in the color. I have mixed a green that is very close to the paint that will be on the opposite wall. I also add just a touch of color behind the stalks to give it just a little depth.

Anastasia Smudge, at bottom, left, has finally gotten her chance and the favored spot!

She likes the ladder, too.

White Kitty
three sun flowers

 Suddenly I am not liking the way the stalks just end at the moulding. I decide the roots should hold on to the baseboards. To accomplish this I had to lie on the floor on my tummy on a yoga matt but I think it was worth it and needed to happen.

Sun flower roots

Now they feels more secure and I don't have to worry the stalks will topple over. Now I can start fleshing out the leaves.

Oh, there is Wookie trying out the new spot.




I have settled the flower heads. Had to stop progress on the leaves and do that so I could tell where to paint in the leaves under the flowers and what sketch lines I needed to paint out with wall paint. Now I can get back to the leaves!

Here is a detail:


Leaf painting close-up .

SunFlowers

FINALLY.

The leaves are complete. I was tired of working on them and anxious to start on the flower heads. This is fun.

Detail below of progress as of July 19.


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