Friday, December 21, 2012

Looking up the sky

I thought there were quite many artists submitted to the street banner competition. But turned out only 7 submissions by the artists plus 13 elementary school students. And I wasn't even chosen top 3, either.

 I found the winner's design in the newspaper and I think it's far better than mine. So I was able to accept I wasn't the winner without upsetting. 

After the EXCITING(?) street banner competition, I felt a little empty and didn't know what to paint.  But one day, I was walking my every day route in the nice day and just looked up the sky. Here, there was a blue sky and beautiful clouds and shadow of the dry trees.

I went home and took out one of the "demolished" canvases. Demolished means I often put the solid colour of paint all over the canvas in the middle of the painting when I feel this painting will never get better or something so wrong. And hide it under the bed. I always keep some of those canvases under the bed. And I don't feel like using a new canvas, I take it out and start painting on it pretending this is a "coloured" new canvas.

Took me 3 weeks to paint this "LOOKING UP"painting.