Playing with purple paint.

In Wednesday's post I talked about the evil abstract triptych and my desire to start over. I also had a fixation with purple and felt compelled to do something with it on the painting. Well, that's exactly what I did ...


Took the abstract down from the wall and gave it a nice coat of white paint ...

Let that dry and sort of sketched out an idea with a field of lavender flowers because I was thinking about them, too ...

Somehow it felt as if it was going to end up too literal if I kept up with that particular idea, which is not what I wanted. I wanted abstract, an "idea" of a field of lavender flowers, and I wanted texture - so I added Golden's Molding Medium with a large spatula, then mushed it around with my fingers to give it some movement, reminiscent of the way lavender flowers grown in rounded clumps and rows ...

Went into the studio after I got home from doing the grocery shopping on Thursday and discovered two cat paw prints in the texture medium. Crazy ass cats. Must have sneaked in there and danced around on the table when the medium was still wet. I got the texture medium back out and smooshed it on the canvas to cover the paw prints. Now, I'm not sure exactly what came over me, but I couldn't stand to wait for that to dry before I got busy with the paint. I didn't argue with myself. I grabbed my spray bottle, misted the canvases, squirted on some paints and went somewhere off into abstract land. In a matter of a couple of hours I had this ...

Dancing In Lavender, acrylic on canvas - 10" x 30" triptych.

I do believe I shall leave this one alone.

Namaste, y'all ...