Days 10-12 Five-Minute Painting Self-Challenge

My last five-minute painting post was on Friday. It is now Tuesday. Yes, the painting is still going on and no, there have been no posts since Friday. Just a little bit busy and a little bit lazy. Trying to get back on track. I did skip Sunday because it is a day of rest at my house and that usually but not always excludes painting.

My Saturday painting is “Butternut Squash.” Not a bad effort for the seven minutes that was spent on this one.

Yesterday, the subject was a “White Daisy.” Portraying white flowers with watercolor means leaving the white unpainted. Normally, when doing a white flower against a background, the outline of the flower would be drawn lightly in pencil, then covered with masking fluid to protect it while painting the background and then the mask would be removed and the flowers completed. In a five-minute painting, it didn’t seem worth the bother of using masking fluid since it is time-consuming and the whole idea is to paint something quickly every day. So, I winged it by using gray to define some of the daisy petals and then using the blue of the background to outline others. It was mostly successful with only one really bad area in the upper right part of the daisy where the background color is too dark and pooled a bit at the edge of the petals and the petals are a bit misshapen. Not a perfect daisy but I’m not going for perfect here, which is a good thing because the photo is also less than perfect (oops!)

“Yellow Daisies” were the subject today and this is one where I didn’t have an image in front of me to assist. Purely out of the imagination which resulted in a drooping daisy and some blunt ended petals.
This one also took the longest at 12 minutes. There is some variety of shape for interest and I like the leaves. Other than that, not too much to say about this one. Daisies have rarely been a good subject for me. I do like the way the photo came out on this one because it looks like a vintage page due to both the bad lighting and using my phone camera. (Too ~~lazy~~ busy to get my good camera and tripod.)

My thought at the moment is to continue with these little paintings until the end of the month and re-evaluate this project at that time. Hopefully, I will be motivated to do a real painting at that time. We shall see.

Thanks for dropping by. I hope you have a great week.

Vicki

4 thoughts on “Days 10-12 Five-Minute Painting Self-Challenge”

Vicki-I'm sure you have heard of Spoonflower. I think your paintings would be gorgeous as fabric. It's an easy thing to make your photos into fabric at that site. You can make repeating patterns and they have a lot of different kinds of fabric. You can even sell your own fabric! Your paintings are lovely!!!

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Thank you so much, Debra. I will have to look into that. Thank you for so much for your encouragement. It means so much coming from you. I admire your work so much.

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