ToCreate.Art.blog

Hello, again.

I’m writing to you from the shelter of my home. I am practicing safe sheltering in the midst of the #coronavirus outbreak. I live in Northwest Wisconsin, and my county has not experienced an outbreak as of yet. Crossing my fingers and knocking on wood.

I have been doing some continued research on abstract painting and I’m coming across some very interesting painters. Adele Sypesteyn, Künstlereich, Sabine Belz, Gerda Lipski, and my most recent favorite, Betty Krause.

I’ve been trying to figure out what it is I love painting the most.

I’ve painted a recent series using Burnt Sienna, Cobalt Blue, Indian Yellow, and a few different shades of green.

Here is one of those paintings:

I really enjoyed creating this series, but there was something missing.

I created a mixed media painting with an abstract mix of colors with no particular sense to it.

This one is titled Spooked because I was listening to Snap Judgment’s Spooked series while painting it.

Still, I like it, but I don’t love it.

I kept watching different artists and creating my version of their art, until I happened upon Betty Krause.

Betty Krause, http://www.BettyKrauseArt.com, paints fields of flowers. I love flowers. When I first started out painting back in 2016, that’s mostly all I would paint. Flowers and trees.

So, today, after watching Betty on Youtube time and time again, I created my version of her style:

While I am not too happy with the final product – it is very orange, and I am stilted in my layout – I am in love with the idea of painting abstract flowers. Fields of flowers.

With more practice, and I intend to practice practice practice now that I have every good reason to stay/shelter at home, I will become more comfortable with what I’m doing and hopefully put my own spin on it.

Not that I want to replicate Betty’s work, but hopefully it will allow me to come into my own style. It is much closer to “me” than what anything else I’ve been painting recently.

Now that we’re practicing social distancing, I don’t feel so intensely introverted – we all have to socially distance and shelter at home. I am in my element being at home and I can call it acting for the greater good. And I get to paint while doing it.

Seriously, though, I hope you and your loved ones stay safe and healthy through this fearful time.

The end may not be as near as we’d like, but take the time to get to know yourself outside of the hustle and bustle of what we knew as life. Slow down in your heart and in your mind. Enjoy being able to spend more time with those around you. Find yourselves.

I love you all.