How To Paint Queen Anne’s Lace . . . or not

There are days when everything flows and then there are days like . . . well, like . . . . today.

I’m still playing around with different techniques for painting. That may seem odd as it took me 15 years to become fairly proficient with one technique – so why change up now?

Boredom, for one. Creativity, for another.

So this post isn’t as much of a ‘what to do’ as it is ‘what I do until I get to the what to do’ part. Follow me?

Call it my “creative process”.

Yeah, that sounds better.

While you’re still pondering that alliterate sentence, I’ll warn you – this post has a ton of photos. Again, most of them are ‘what not to do’ my creative process until I arrive at a method or technique that I like.

And one that I think novice painters can do too.

I’ll just keep rambling while you look at the pics, okay?

You see, I adore Queen Anne’s Lace, which probably comes from being a florist in the late ‘70’s and early ‘80’s.

Back then every bridal bouquet I did had baby’s breath.

Brides loved baby’s breath.

After umpteen weddings I couldn’t bear to look at baby’s breath and I developed a penchant for Queen Anne’s Lace.

Even though, technically speaking, Queen Anne’s is really a weed.

But I love it.

And I like to paint what I love.

I mean, it’d be kinda silly to paint what I didn’t like, right?

Or maybe, sick and twisted?

And even if I was sick and twisted, I wouldn’t actually let people know it.

That’d be downright nutty.

Uh-oh. I maybe in trouble here because I am just a wee bit nutty.

Just a tad.

I mean, would a non-nutty person do a post within a post . . .

. . . with over 20 pictures of a project they don’t even like?!?

. . . and include captions on each photo to describe how to paint the picture that they don’t like?

Unless, of course, said nutty, or maybe non-nutty, person is just being candid . . .

. . . and revealing

. . . about their ‘creative process’.

The End.