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The canvas size is 34″ by 36″. It can be horizontal or vertical.

annlovestars

annlovestars wrote:
Desire as a theme. Maybe it can reflect your desire for total freedom.
(as you told me before :)
Then you could mix bright colours (that you crave for)
with some darker ones (the craving place)

I think also moderation is key, leave room for the imagination,
leave spaces.

If there’s realism in it make sure the texture is right.
Decide if you want movement in it or stillness.

Desire Freedom brings to my mind Escape to vast open spaces, great light, vivid colors, poisonous plants and bugs, deadly snakes in small places or maybe just the skin on the bottom of the canvas passing through;)

veanandjea

veanandjea wrote:
don’t make it doom and gloom. or happy.
try making an emotion that is interesting to paint. like frustration or shame
or lustfull, oooh.
don’t use human faces, make it interesting.

I usually try to paint dark and light of it. I think life is full of the good and bad. I find life dull without it:)

Why not faces, little faces with pain or fear, runny noses or red faces playing in the sand:)

annlovestars wrote:
Thats sounds like a good start,It depends on what you want it to feel like.To me the more details you add the more real it gets to meMaybe this can give some inspiration :http://www.spacetoday.org/images/Hubble/HubbleBeauty/LagoonNebulaHeartNASA. jpgyou have to copy/paste cause lately my pic didn’t work in here haha

Wow, vivid color:) I think I want my dark of it to be a small place in the painting (through the perspective of the snake:))?

Dan TL wrote:
Pick a really powerful emotion that has been getting you recently and personify it.

Empty, like a desert rat about to be eaten by a red diamond back rattler (the snake will only be visible in the iris of the rat who will be slightly oversized in the front of the scene);)

annlovestars

You got alot of input in there:)
bye:) TTFN

Dan TL wrote:
Thats good, heres mine…Empty; a person sitting vulnerably in the desert sand looking around anxiously for something to come, as a hourglass floats above their head.

Wow Dan TL
That’s a little melting clock like.

Anonymous wrote:
the feelong of unity!

If the rat about to become dinner is unity I guess we have it:)

Dan TL wrote:
melting clock like ? whats that ?

Salvadore Dali painted melting clocks
http://video.aol.com/video-detail/sal…

cattail wrote:
Anticipation… a glimmer of hope….

Anticipation!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I’m terrified to mess up the canvas!
I always have a hard time with the first stroke.

cattail

What color should my underpainting be? Burnt Ciena? Burnt Umber? Yellow Okra?

I’m thinking blazing like the desert sun, morning or late afternoon with long shadows or should it be

My avatar is a sunrise in one of the most beautifully lit skies, all the light bounces off the Boston Harbor and the Atlantic Ocean to make the most vivid and pure colors I have ever seen:) It is where I spent every summer growing up, I use to walk my dog at sunrise because he couldn’t be on the beach after 9am.

cattail
I would paint may avatar but I did not take the photograph, it’s not mine to paint:)

cattail wrote:
It’s absolutely gorgeous!!! Lucky you to have had that wonderful experience… and walks on the beach at sunrise!! Did this inspire you to be an artist?

Definately! “Nature at it’s finest hour, SoulRising”

30ishinPA wrote:
I say paint a shadow of a person dancing in the sky with a ray of sun shine slightly hitting the front of the face and that part not being a shadow but a real human face, just the front though.

How do I get that imagination out of your head and in my minds eye?

“A sunrise is like a blank canvas, anything can happen, it’s only the beginning”

30ishinPA wrote:
if ever i run out of ideas i go back to this thought….how do i show what could be from what cannot be?

Tough question.