In the vast ocean of blogs I thought that no one will notice if mine disappears. It is sometimes difficult to know and understand that real people look at our art and read our words. After receiving several warm and worried emails, I thought about it and felt bad for leaving without good bye.

I have been blogging for six years, and in that time had a privilege to meet many amazing people. I learned a lot from you and benefited from your feedback and kindness so many times... I am deeply grateful for it. I am not sure what happened, but at this point I feel a need to pull back, to go inside, to think. I have always been an introvert and I guess that side is pulling strongly right now.

I will continue to create, and will keep both of my etsy shops open, but will not post any more.

I wish you all the best.

Thank you.

Zorana

I attempted...

I attempted to paint a self portrait... And it didn't work. Whenever I try to put the lines and dark circles where they are supposed to be, they turn out too harsh and completely unnatural. 

Still, it was interesting to paint because I experimented. I wanted to paint on a base of gold gesso, which I don't have, so I painted a layer of gold and transparent gesso over it. I used burnt sienna, raw umber, titan buff, white and a touch of red for skin colors and it was interesting to see how they look on top of a warm gold background. I left a lot of gold showing through.

Is it still considered a self-portrait if it looks nothing like me?

Have a great week!

More of the same

I painted both birds at the same time, but didn't have time to prepare photos for both,
so I'm showing this one now.

 And because I usually love the close-ups as much, or more than the paintings,
I can't resist to post them too.

All colors again...

It was nice exploring a limited palette, but I can't stay for long from using all crayons in the box at the same time :-)

In my journal...

While I'm waiting for little masked creatures to knock on my door, I thought I might finish this journal page and post ih here. Reminds me of my sister and me, except that she never had that weird hair style. On the other hand, I did..... yikes!

My new favorite color

So, here it is... my new favorite color:

I used it here only with Payne's gray and Titanium White, but it woks so well with all other colors. I love what it does when used as a transparent layer, and will probably be exploring it in everything I paint in the following months (or days... I might find another 'favorite' very soon).

Anyone else that loves this color? 

I'm about to go and check what's been posted on Paint Party Friday. It's a great way to get introduced to blogs that I haven't seen before.

Happy Weekend!

Painting big

I wasn't feeling very talkative on my blog this week, but that doesn't mean that I was not painting. I worked on several big canvases (36"x24"), mostly enjoying the splashes of color and their interaction than anything else. I didn't even listen to music while painting... it was just me and color and brushes and I really loved it.  

 

I hope you enjoyed my mostly blue-green paintings...

This last one is an older painting. I don't think I showed it on the blog, and it goes well with this series so I included it.

I have a new favorite color (not blue or green). I think my big journal is calling me... so in the next couple of days I hope to explore the "new" color and share the results.

xo