One More Project

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One more sale this weekend and I'm done for this year.  Time to think about some projects I want to do not just items to sell. 

My daughter has this big large empty wall in her living room so I thought I'd tackle a painting.  Not my usual art form.  Especially this size.  Since the canvas I bought is 30" x 40" the largest I've ever tackled. 


So I painted, I cut and paste, painted some more.  Then started the process again,  more cutting and pasting.  Procrastinating is what it's called.  I'm having a hard time tackling the red poppies.  There will be no going back once I put the red paint on the canvas.







Finally, the poppies start to appear, then more grass, maybe some more poppies now that I got the hang of it.  That wasn't so bad after all.
 





 
But it needs some final detail.  A butterfly,  and a little Happiness character.  Ready to hang.  

 








The exciting part, besides my daughter likes it and it looks great over her sofa,  I got a request to do another only a little bit smaller.   

Since I'm not good with only one project going at a time I bought a pair of shoes to doodle.  For me, since I finally wore a hole thru my first pair of Tom's. 

Thanks for visiting.

Hugs

Cyndee




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