Circle of comfort and faces nr 7 and 8!

First of all, I want to thank all of you who took the time last week to give your opinion about my painting. I was really stuck and reading all your comments really helped me to get a new perspective on the painting.

I was surprised that so many of you saw the little face that was there as distraught and even evil. That was not how I had meant it at all. But looking closer at my painting I understood that that was probably what had been bothering me about it.

So pretty early on I decided she'd have to go. And boy, that felt so good! All of a sudden it was fun to work on the painting again, while before it had just been a struggle.

The trees were a lot of detailed work, so it took me quite a while to finish it. But now I feel good about it and I declare it done!

As always, I'll show you all the pics from start to finish. But I have to warn you: there's a lot of pictures.... So if you came here to look at my 7th face, you better scroll right to the end of the post ;-)

I realized I don't have a picture from the start of the canvas. That's because this canvas was on my easel all the time while I was working on other stuff, and every time I had leftover paint (which was almost always) I put it on this canvas. So the first time I made a picture of it there were already quite some layers on it.

 adding some contrast

 playing with my beloved Golden high flow acrylics again. Aahh, the brightness of those colours ....*sigh*

 starting my mark making

 the going overboard again with the dripping and dribbling. Will I ever learn?

 

So I need to start making marks again. Oh well .....

Finally getting somewhere

Can't find any figures in there, so mark making once again ....

I'm starting to see a rabbit. Not sure I want to go with it .... I also see a face with a long neck.

I was so intent on getting out my images that popped up everywhere, that I forgot to take in-progress-pics .... All of a sudden, they're there ;-)

Too dark, don't like it. Dribbling again to lighten it up ....

 Bit better ...

The small face .... She insisted on being there but I don't know whether I like it or not ....

I decide to get rid of the big bird

Nah, I'm stuck! This is where I asked your opinion last week. 

Going, going, gone! YES! I feel so much better ....

Getting the bird out again and starting to work on the trees

And yes, I had to add some more faces .... I felt they belonged there ....

Brought some more sun and warmth into the painting and declared it done!

I call it "Circle of comfort", because it feels like she's surrounded by beings that want to comfort her. I feel as if the trees are all around her protecting her from harm, enclosing their little circle with warmth.

So happy it came together at last. I am now planning on making some "easy" paintings for the upcoming exhibition. I love making these intuitive paintings, but they can sometimes take very long to get where I want them to be. So I hope by next week I can show you another finished painting!

And this week I discovered the ease of posting 2 faces at once for the 29 faces challenge, and then having "a night off" the next day. Way easier that way, while I'm not really cheating since I still create a face every day.

So for the rest of the month I will do that :-)

I had wanted to post a review of all the faces I did this week, but since this is already such a picture-heavy post (and getting waaaayyy too long ...) I'll do that on Sunday, when I'll post faces 9 and 10.

Today I post faces 7 and 8. While I had my paints out I decided to paint some more rocks, since they're selling pretty rapidly in the gallery and I need to make some new stock.

This is day 7:

and day 8:

And both of them together, so you get an idea of the size:

Now I'll finish, I promise ;-)

Linking this as always to Paint Party Friday. If you're not familiar with PPF, go have a look here, and you'll discover lots of talented artists who share every Friday the artwork they did during the week. Lots of inspiration, lots of creativity, lots of eye-candy. And the best part: you can join in if you want!

The link for the 29 faces is here. 152 people have signed up for it, and I haven't even visited half of them. Oh time ... where do you run to!?

Thanks so much for visiting me! I hope you're having a wonderful day, and I wish you a weekend full of creativity and fun. I'll be back on Sunday! ♥ ♥ ♥