#238 Primitive Bird 11/2/19

I have two more ampersand boards to paint.  The clownfish ones were such a struggle I was hesitant to attempt more with these boards, but I had already purchased them, thus must use them.  I went to my pinterest page looking for inspiration, and it was a toss-up between the primitive bird and the primitive vase of flowers.  Primitive seemed seductive.  It was already a long Saturday of running errands with Dave and I wasn't mentally good for much.  The primitive bird won.  It feels like I've been cheating recently, using ideas from other painters.  But again I sketched it myself, so I soothe my conscience with that thought.  Plus, the idea of pinterest is that somebody posts something they did, and others are supposed to show the results of their similar effort.  I heard there is a website devoted to showing "pinterest fails", someone tried the idea with miserable results.  The bird looked like something that would be fun to have in a child's room, bright colors and easy subject.  I started with all the blue things: bird and leaves.  Then I put in the branches, purple, and smeared some of the purple into the leaves.  Then I grabbed a fresh brush and mixed up some greens and another fresh brush and mixed up some oranges.  The last thing down was the reds for the wing and berries.  It is on a 6x6 inch board, and it turned out OK, I don't think anyone would expect it to show up on the pinterest failure site.  But my mental state at the end of things was just the same as the beginning.  Not the usual state of affairs after finishing a painting where I'm either disgusted or elated with the results.  I might try the primitive vase tomorrow, see if the after-effect is the same.  I'll post my painting under the "tried this?" section on pinterest.