The meadow of smiling lips - against the rules of colours

I wanted to check whether it is possible to go against the rules - I tried to create picture with blue in the foreground and warm salmon-ish colour in the clouds, in order to play with the feel of distance - according to the rules it should be warm colours in the foreground, because they seem closer to the viewer and bigger too, and cooler tones should be in the back, because the air is bluish tint, and cool seems smaller too. With this attempt I actually have both cool and warm in both positions, the habit of many years is difficult to change - but I shall keep experimenting.

Enjoy the picture!

PS My poppies are still work in progress, to some look more like lips or saucers, the merrier the better. :-)

More modern flowers

My artistic appettite is growing - now I am learning from other artists, Inspired by the exhibition in Eden copurt I have created the flowers in a more contemporary fashion. I like the colours, but feel uneasy a bit about the simple almost schematic aproach, it is not something I am used to doing.

This bandid stood sideways - I had a horisontal photo, on my laptop showed horisontal, when uploaded to blogger - jumped ike a mad horse, Sorry to all the viewers...

Art duo

This is co-production with a fellow artist Alina Katarasinska Tokar.

Withering flowers

This is the picture of the flowers in the meadow, also of the transient pleasure in life - on two levels. The flowers were collected on a happy tandem trip, I knew they woud not last long, what I did not know, the picture will follow suit - it was thrown away at the weekend, as the final clean up started earlier than I expected (this was the last week of classes for the academic year and for the building itself).
Now my flower meadow
is part of a history, glad I had taken the photo in time.

Goodbye Midmills college and my last picture tehre...

Tulip study

Today I exercised tulip study - analitycal painting is my Achilles's heel - it is belowe level of my perception so i am struggling with imagiing and painting what i know is there, not only what I can see myself, and the little I can see is still so difficult to catch in colour shape etc. but practise makes perfect, So I start here:

The beauty comes for free, the paint, sometimes, too

Today's pictures came to being due to somebody's stupidity or carelessness first (throwing open paints and mediums to a box) and Sally's effort to clean it all - I 'rescued' the paint which was going to go down the drain and to the bin. Couple of hours later look what happened... (I have to admit here it is mainly yellow and red which were rescued, other colours came from a regular source).

The biggest problem of my life - for today

Today I created a very mixed media picture entitled 'get inspired' though the original title might have been 'holidays' or 'happy place'. It suits very well the weather of today, cold dreaky day... And the dillemma is - where shall I put the boat / hat?

 

Or is it better without one?