Red Flowers In Hair Daily Painting #20

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Daily Painting #20

November 18, 2007

“Red Flowers In Hair” is an oil painting on a 12”x12” unframed canvas. I painted a portrait of a woman with red flowers in her hair. The photograph is from some random magazine I’ve held on to for a long time. I always wanted to paint this picture so I guess the timing was just perfect (funny because my printer was out of ink and I couldn’t print anything from my laptop anyway). I love painting people with out of the ordinary colors. If you look closely, you’ll see lime green, hot pink, purple, blue, and other fun colors. I had a lot of fun painting her. I just love looking into her eyes.

I’ve been busy getting ready for a big residential paint job Dena and I will be working on in December, all the while thinking about how much I couldn’t wait to get back up to the loft to paint. During the month of December my Daily Paintings will probably be limited to weekends, maybe I will figure something else out. Oh well, will just have to wait and see huh?

I’m in the mood to paint some nudes in thick, heavy brush/pallet knife strokes, so if anyone out there has any good reference photos they think would make a great painting please feel free to email them to me. I’d prefer photographs of not-so-skinny women. Obviously, please consider this to be a painting so the picture should be a nice, non-offensive one. They also do not have to be nude, dressed is fine too.

Something that has been on my mind since yesterday is from Alice In Wonderland. My friend Alexis Ahrens (www.littlelogbook.com) told me about this, after she heard Rev. Michael Beckwith talk about it:
"Alice laughed: "There's no use trying," she said; "one can't believe impossible things." "I daresay you haven't had much practice," said the Queen. "When I was younger, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast."

Now exercise suggested that was inspired by this is everyday, to think of 6 impossible things before breakfast. So I did this. I wrote them down. Really trying to pick the most impossible thoughts I could possibly have about what I’d like in my life. After I looked at the screen I realized, THIS IS A FANTASTIC WAY TO WRITE AFFIRMATIONS! Brilliant! I thought about those 6 impossible things all day long! Try it. I know you’ll be smiling and it will effect you in the most delightful way!

Well that’s all for today. Hopefully I’ll get another painting off before I leave for Thanksgiving. There will be no paintings for the majority of the week.

I hope you have a wonderful Thanksgiving – just incase this is the last time I write.

Peace & blessings,
Gayle Etcheverry

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