Celebrate yourself

I finished my painting yesterday! Well, actually, I saw some things this morning that I didn't like so changed a bit more, but now it's done. And I'm not gonna touch it anymore!

I call it "Celebrate yourself", and it's in honor of all those women who regularly doubt themselves, who think they're too fat or too thin, too ugly, too wrinkly, too old, too clumsy, who feel inferior, who think they have too much of this and too little of that. Don't let anybody put you down, you are you, you are unique and you should go and celebrate that. To hell with all the rules that society puts on us, the rules that tell us to stay young and beautiful forever and otherwise disappear out of sight. Just show yourself as you are and enjoy life.

Well, that's what it means to me anyway, maybe someone else sees something completely different in it. And that's okay too :-)

It went through a lot of transformations in the end. Here's all the pictures in progress:

The very first layer. Just some leftover paint from another canvas ...

warm colours on top

all kinds of drips and dribbles added, and also some black and white already (I must've forgotten to take some pictures in between)

Hmm. This is really a case of TOO MUCH. I just remembered that I had some tar gel, and decided to make some dribbles with that. So I mixed it with white and started dribbling. Only, the dribbles didn't come out as planned, and I was left with some big blobs, that I had to spread out over the canvas. Very ugly at this point ...

So I tried to cover it up again ... 

At first, couldn't see anything beyond some birds and fish, but when I looked at the picture on the computerscreen I suddenly saw two figures.

It was really fun to bring them out

Decided that the bottom needed something ...

Added some circles and some more drips

Didn't like my ovals at the bottom, so added some more paint / drips.

Worked on the figures some more, still unsure about what to do with the ovals

no, too opaque, but I kinda liked the light colouring

so here we go dripping again (what would I do without my spray-bottle ...)

Better, but still not to my liking ....

Okay, I'm finally satisfied (I think ...;-))

The figures were the easiest part of this painting. I can't believe those ovals took me that long.
I have two new canvases in preparation now, looking forward on starting with them!

And here's my daily girl for the 29 faces challenge:

She doesn't look very happy. I wouldn't either if this happened to me ...;-)

Well, this week I'm going to try and visit everybody on Paint Party Friday. Didn't manage that this week, but at least I don't have a market this weekend (and boy am I glad about that!)

Thanks so much for visiting! Enjoy your weekend and don't forget to go celebrate yourself!