This is the last of the summer vacation planned paintings that had to wait. The bicycle picture is from Pexels....I loved the twilight lighting, blue but with colorful leaves on the ground. The bike has nice geometric lines that are different than the geometric lines of the building it is parked in front of. I got most of it down on 7/7/19, started it with a red canvas, to get the red leaves and eerie blue atmosphere. But I decided it should dry a bit before I tried to put down the wheel spokes. I had that same feeling of dread as with the cables on the Golden Gate Bridge. So the week went by, with me looking at the spokeless wheels and me saying, "not tonight honey". I felt like I had lost my mojo. I did lots of stuff, just not painting (and not house cleaning, I seriously need to think about hiring a cleaner). On Saturday, 7/13/19, I took my paintings to the Farmer's Market and set them up with my new contraption that I found at the Goodwill store - some sort of wire shelf you bolt to the wall and store DVD's maybe? Whatever it is, when it's flat on the table, it lets my little paintings stand up in a row. I managed to sell one little painting, to a young boy (surprise), it's the little easel painting of the cat face (which I thought wouldn't appeal to a youngster given how up-close it is). Here's a pic of the display:
Back to the bike: it's done....not sure I like it. No, I'm sure. I don't like it. I got the blue feel OK. The bike is OK. It's the wheels. I stressed over the wheels and it shows. The red leaves ended up being orange, I should fix that. Uggh. I need to get my mojo back.
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