Summer Painting #1

I have been doing some small daily paintings painted on small (and square) cradled wooden panels. I picked small formats because it’s easier to do a painting a day when you work small.

I have been trying to think of some ideas for a calendar which is why the square format works best right now.   Since it is summer, I have been doing summer themed paintings from a list posted by Marisa Cummings of Creative Thursday.  The challenge started on the 13th but I have been holding off posting my daily paintings until the beginning of July, which is today.

The prompts are random and you can do them in the order posted or pick and choose which ones to do or even combine them.  The goal is to do one painting a day and the prompts are suggestions.

I like creating little paintings that are happy and perky and I picked a bunch of small 4×4 blocks to use as my surface.  Blocks are nice because they don’t need to be framed and they can sit on a desk or hang on a wall.  If you would like to purchase one, I will be creating a shop for the purpose of selling them, or I may just use the Etsy shop I set up several years ago, that I never use.  I haven’t gotten that far.  I might look into Shopify as well.

I am also working on a paper maché project where you have to do functional art but mine will most likely be and art for art’s sake piece.  I am drawing a complete blank for function but I have loads of idea for the “just art” category. In the mean time I have been saving all sorts of junk to turn into art.  Maybe that’s where my functional art comes in.  Turning junk into art. Eureka!