I love smearing paint with a palette knife.
The *WordSpark* for my little painting group this month was "Shadows." As is usually the case, I was completely blank as to what I might paint for the topic.
I was walking through the garden center at Walmart, (the part where it's inside, but open to the sky) when I noticed the most lovely perfect shadows this plant was casting on the concrete. The plant was on the floor marked down to $4 because nearly every stem was broken. But... some scotch tape to hold the stems upright-ish... some wire to prop the dead-ish ones up... some artistic license to fix it up was all it took!
- I started with scraps of collage paper in purples.
- Then I fussy-cut (a term I learned from my quilting friends) the flowers off of a paper party napkin.
- Next I created a "found poem" about shadows from a page of Charlotte's Web. (It's the scene where Charlotte was sending the rat, Templeton, to the fairgrounds to get her a word so she could weave it in her web one last time.)
- A found poem is done by taking a sheet of text and marking out everything you don't need until you end up with words that make up a description/feeling/image/poem of what you do need.
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The Cool of the Evening In the cool of the
evening, shadows darkened the air. Without
saying anything, he started off. The shadows came as a welcome relief. The sky seemed high, and you could hear music. The man felt refreshed. |
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