I recently started dabbling once again in acrylic paints. I decided to try my hand at doing a series of abstract flowers. The red flower done on an 8×10 flat panel canvas. The type you buy at your local art supply store in packs of six. I like the flat panels because they fit in a frame much better than a normal canvas.
I live in the greater northeast and am looking forward to warm weather returning so I can take my sketchbook and hit the road to make some drawings. Sorry to all you skiers but I have been looking for the first signs spring is on its way like flowers peeking through the soil and the robin’s return. Today my wife saw the first robin this year.Woo who warmth and sunshine are on their way back.
I learned long ago, like the robin is a sign spring is on its way bringing the warmth, people are looking for signs in your life to validates the claims you make about yourself. This is true about your faith as much as many other areas of life. People can spot a fake a mile away. Proverbs 28:18 says, “Whoever walks in integrity will be delivered, but he who is crooked in his ways will suddenly fall.” While this verse is technically not about being a warm person it is a part of living a life of integrity.
My mother instilled in me a long time ago the need to show warmth to others in everything I say as well being generous in all I do. I may not have a lot of money but I do have a lot I can give. You never know who you touch in life so you must always be who you are not who you feel people want.
Over the years I have switched to smaller canvases. I don’t know if it because of my adult ADD and the idea a finished painting on a big canvas take a while to complete from concept to finished painting. Maybe it is the fact smaller canvases are cheaper to buy or find at the local thrift store.
Tip of the day. I often buy a small frame at the local thrift store, take the cardboard out of the frame and use it as my canvas. The upswing is it costs me $1.97 to get a canvas and a frame to put my finished painting in when I’m done.
Whatever the reason I switched to small canvases I still had a couple of larger canvases left to paint on which led me to today’s offering an acrylic on canvas entitled, “A Cold Winter’s Day.”
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