Anyway, just a short note on this. A dear friend paints and supplies to a local craft shop her painted decorative items. Each design is painstakingly done, as far it goes she tries to be original, though at times ideas are borrowed here and there but always done her own way. Unfortunately... there is someone out there who bought her items, traced her designs ... and sold those designs commercially as her own!!! It's sad when one does not acknowledge the work of others .... :(
So... what have I been doing? Oh I've been busy painting ... but of course!!. It's just not that easy anymore to write and story-tell my finished works hehe. It's easier to have everything photographed and placed in the appropriate album in Facebook ... yup!yup!yup! So go look see there-lah ;)) Here today I'm going to show-off my paintings on canvas .... not thoroughly original ideas... but I did it my way adding touches of my own here and there.
This was a Terry Harrison original done in water-colour. I loved the whole look ... modified it, added my own potted plants and the bicycle... and did it my way in acrylics.
.... and this is Ann Mortimer's "Cottage Window" in water-colour. Again the main idea was borrowed but I have added my own personal touches and did it in acrylics. I love both paintings ... it's still not up to my expectations yet, not as great as I imagined it to be ... but yeah! kak Masnah is happy ... so I am happier :))
I was told I need to create more depth with shadows and highlights, need to blur out certain parts so that other parts can "pop-out" ... hehe I'm still learning ... slowly making the transition from decorative artist to a fine artist ... amen! I'm self-taught ... read many books .. and not understanding the jargon LOL ... thus end-up painting my way hehehe. Wrong or right? ... hey! it's art! Art is subjective ... lalalalaaaaa
Have a great day people ... more to paint ...
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