Ellen Lindner: Art & Creativity

While visiting family I bought a book called How to Paint Flowers in Acrylic, by Tim Fisher.  The loose quality of these flowers really intrigued me!

Then, my niece, Nolie, and I found some TINY canvasses (3 x 3 and 2 x 2) and we just HAD to play!  We got out my mom’s acrylic paints and started doing some of the exercises in the book.

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We had great fun mixing paints and making a mess.

I decided to loosely imitate one of the images in the book.  (Note that I’d never tried to paint anything realistic before this!)

Many of the flowers in the book were rather loose.  I thought that matched my skill level.  I wanted to just add colorful shapes, like I do with fabric.

And this is what I ended up with.

As you can see, my painting was a little inexact.  (Is there such a word?)  A fine black line added definition to my vague edges.

I’m pretty happy with it.  But, most of my enjoyment came from the process of exploration and learning.  Great fun!

BTW, if you want to order the book, just click on the image and it will take you to Amazon.com.

Ellen Lindner
P.S.  I keep saying that I’m going to learn how to paint with acrylics when I retire.  But, maybe I should accelerate my timeline?
P.P.S.  Isn’t Nolie a pretty name?  She’s named after her great-grandmother, my grandmother.