My enthusiasm for painting in series got the best of me a few weeks back and I proposed a "Small Works" show to the board of my local art group, the Placerville Arts Association. They approved, and the show is set for the week of December 10. There will be three categories, series of 9, series of 3, and individual works. I have committed to both a series of 9 and a series of 3. But I was shocked when I counted up how many weeks there are between now and December 10. I'll be completing a little more than one painting a week to make the deadline.
My series of 9 will be "A Feline's Guide to Floral Fantasy," in other words cats and flowers. I found nine girls' names that are also names of flowers, and that list provides me both the names of my cats and the flowers that I'll depict. I decided on acrylic. And all the paintings are 8" x 8".
This is the first one, and it was very difficult for me to paint.
The difficulty was the paint drying soooo quickly. I think it was because I prepared the board differently than I usually do. I cut these boards from a larger piece of 1/4" thick MDF (medium density fiberboard) that I bought at Home Depot. Usually I simply spray them with white spray wood primer. But this time I added a coat of gesso over the primer.
The gesso was so absorbent and was fighting me all the way. So for the next piece I'm going to use primer only and also I'll sand the primer super smooth before I begin painting. Hopefully that will work a lot better!
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