Day 9 …
… and another house. This one reminded me very much of a beach house - even though the photo was on some suburban street, Somplace U.S.A - so the background was done in aqua and blue and a touch of Hansa yellow. But of course it was too bright so I brought it down a notch or two with some payne’s gray. I glued down the image and scumbled some titanium white over the textural background which ended up looking just like waves. And I *could* have left it just like that. Only it seemed to easy. Or it wasn’t quite sitting right. Or my muse was having a very finicky, "I. Just. Don’t. Like. It." kinda day. And because I’ve learned not to argue with "The Boss", proceeded to frig around with it for another … TWO HOURS. Adding ink marks. Wiping them off. Adding different washes. Wiping them off. Added some stamped fish. Wiped them off, too. The base was getting quite muddy so I added some more titanium white to clean things up, spontaneously grabbing my ever-ready sequin waste and pushed it into the wet paint. "Ahhhh! Yes!," said the muse. And I was once more on track! We moved from a seaside feel to a house-in-the-clouds motif which was fine with me as long as we were just about done! A wash of payne’s gray to settle the house in the clouds and I’m declaring this: "FINI"!
