My favorite kind of experiment

I work predominantly in acrylic paints because of the quick drying and ease of clean-up. Still, it doesn't seem to satisfy my appetite for painting.

Enter water-soluble oil paints.

I've been wanting to try out water-soluble oils for way too long but just haven't gotten around to it. It's kind of like being a Canon user (which I am) and considering the jump to Nikon - it's almost too expensive to do or justify doing once you're invested in one way so much. Well, I finally stopped making excuses for why not to just go for it all and I got myself some Van Gogh H2Oils and I cannot tell you how much I love them!!!

This painting is just an abstract of a flower field that was really just meant to quickly cover up an old and outdated piece I did for master bedroom and try out the water-soluble oils. It started out as a relief sculpture/painting using good old fashioned tape and I just couldn't get it all to work out so I just ripped the sculpturing off and want at it as just a painted piece. I'm completely happy with it and can't wait to dig into another (more serious piece) now that I have a better hang of the water-soluble oils. Not sure what I'll do next just yet but I'm excited about getting some more colors and paints already.

She's the next American Idol

I have no idea what song she's singing but - trust me - it will be climbing the pop charts soon enough...

BTW - Sorry new material has been so scarce around here. We've been having some technical difficulties as some pictures and videos have not been able to upload at all. I'm thinking it's a problem with blogger more than the pictures so I'm going to keep trying to get everything up within the week - we're backed up a good 3-4 posts!