“A Yellow Water Lily”
The first two times I did this painting the end results were both disasters. I was trying to paint each petal individually and there was just not an overall harmony of color in either false start. One of these disasters was still tacked to the drawing board and leaning up against a nearby bookcase.
Our tom cat, Simba, wandered up and looked at the painting and then backed up to it and gave it a great big squirt. I have to agree with his opinion. I felt the same way about how it looked.
After sleeping on the problem for several nights, I woke up with the idea to first paint the whole painting a light yellow which will give a uniform color on all the petals. That worked—what a relief. I was happy with the third effort.
When I got through with the painting and hunting for areas that needed to be fixed, I noticed a small white speck at the edge of one of the yellow petals. In trying to get the small speck to be the same shade of green as the lily pad below, which was a solid green, fixing the small speck quickly became a big problem in that the shade of green was never just right. Quickly the whole lily pad looked wrong. Oh my, I now had to repaint all the lily pads and try not to damage the finished yellow lily.
Sometimes fixing these accidents and problems can lead to making a better painting. In the case of this one, I liked the colors of the lily pads better after making changes to cover up a mistake.
This morning on the way back from getting the original scanned, I stopped at PetsMart. After unloading $150 dollars worth of pet food in the SUV, I got in the drivers seat to start the engine. I noticed that the sun shade was down which I rarely put down. A lot of the stuff that is supposed to be in the console was scattered around on the seats. Finally it began to dawn on me that somebody had been in my SUV while I was shopping.
Then I noticed my radar warning device and my new GPS device were gone. Good grief, I had been robbed! They got in by breaking the lock on the door.
The good news is that they did not take this painting of the yellow water lily or damage it; so, in a way, I feel lucky.
Cheers,
Acree
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