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I had found a blank canvas among my art supplies and decided to try my hand at capturing Autumn around here in acrylics instead of my more usual watercolors. I don’t usually do much traditional ‘realism’ in my art, but it’s good to try new things.

I made myself use a larger brush than I would have normally too, to prevent me from getting too caught up in details, which is easy to do with acrylics because you can just keep painting forver (dries so quickly – easy to layer.) And the actual painting is a little more vibrant than this digital version, I think.

Also, the scene isn’t painted from any one specific photograph, but is mostly based on the view I had out the window of the tall trees and the stone wall running around the land across the street from us.

Thanks for looking! (Click on the image to see a zoom and to buy prints.)

I had a chance to pull out the acrylic paints the other day, including a canvas board that I had started painting a number of YEARS ago and just never finished. It’s best described as a surreal mindscape sort of thing, or abstract. Or just weird – LOL:

Although you can’t really tell from the online version, the original is done with a mix of metallic and flat acrylic paints, which adds an additional level of contrast to the work when you see it in person. Anyway, it was fun to paint and stretch my mind a little further, and I hope to do more acrylic work in the future, in addition to my other usual mediums. (And as usual, click on the image to see a larger version or to buy a print or card.)

I think I had a subconscious intention of trying to capture, in watercolor, the feel of swimming pool water – think I might have gotten pretty close with this:

It’s also possible that I just started drawing and painting and defined what it seemed to look like afterward. LOL. My memory is wonderfully hazy about it, and shall ever remain so. *grin*