A quick painting today as we have a full day with friends.
I drew this yesterday but painted it today - so that counts.

This weird flower reminds me of the ocean. I am not sure where all these weird shapes are coming from - but I am starting by following the wood grain (like in the landscape) and then making a flower tree thing... some of them are quite weird looking. It goes along with my "make visible that with without you would never have been seen."

I framed up my 5 paintings. Broke my buy nothing new rule already... although they are frames so I can justify it.
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5 already and it is day 3...

that's good.

I also did some more drawing on wood.

I have 13 boards of this size and i really want to follow as much of the wood grain as I can and then paint them up. I did try to cover this with a light acrylic medium to see how the wood handles this. I notice the wood is reacting to the paint. So these ones will need a hard varnish over top. I need to play with different wood stains and varnishes to see if I can get this to work better. 

I have gotten 5 days ahead of myself. (I started a little ahead)
I am afraid there will be days this month, I won't be able to paint. 

30 in 30 is going to happen - it just may not be each day, but I will try. 

I have a series of 5 complete. and am onto the next already.
An excuse to paint seems to have been the kick in the pants I needed
at least with this day 2...

​Here is a peak at the next little series...

Day 1:  Which end is up?

My first painting of this next 30 days, from a 5 paintings series. 

I am trying to use what I have, and i had a bunch of old half-painted canvas boards, 8" x 10". They were portraits of sorts from a college project that I didn't use. So I painted over them this morning - keeping the general shapes that were already there. 

Then I had to work today (darn it). 

Tonight, during Mira's homework time, I started the drawing process. Still trying to find the perfect pen for drawing on a ruff canvas panel covered in paint. This is not an easy thing to find.  I used a new type of pen for this. They are supposed to be archival and light fast and pigment ink. We shall see. I like them but they didn't last long and I found myself writing on paper to get them going again. I may have to break my goal of not buying anything new in this 30 days - as I may have worn them out with this one painting.

Anyway, 
I am working abstract for these days. What do you see?
Is this still a portrait?
or did it become a landscape?
or a microscopic view? 

You decide.

I am super excited about this series. 

1 down 29 to go...
(giddy)