Watercolor Wedding Invitations
As you have probably noticed, I love zooming into my paintings. I love seeing the brushstrokes and the gradual, organic flows of color. I love that when I zoom into my paintings they create this brand new abstract composition. I am flirting with the idea to create a wedding invitation (or a series) that are more abstract interpretations of objects….stay tuned.
Autumn Leaves Invitation is now available in the Hand-Painted Weddings Invitation shop.
While doing a brief hike this past weekend I spotted by first brightly-colored autumn leaf! If you know me at all, you know that I am head-over-heels smitten with Autumn. I am a big-time “leafer“. I love the bright-colored leaves, the smell of burning leaves, pumpkins, butternut squash soup, spicy beers, brisk mornings, and potted mums! Needless to say, I was pretty excited when I spotted this leaf….my first sign that my favorite season is around the corner.
What I love about this leaf is that it looks like the red is slowly creeping over the green in the leaf and taking it over.
To view the finished piece, the Autumn Leaves invitation, click here.
Paintings by Hand-Painted Weddings.
Currently, I am in the midst of a bit of painting exploration. I am playing around with different painting techniques in order to further refine my painting style. For instance, I naturally paint very detailed but am more in love with the paintings I do that are more loose. I’ve got to admit this is the same with my life. I’m constantly working on the balance between ambitious hard work and trying to go with the flow and allow my intuition to guide me. It is interesting how similar my painting inclinations are to my own personal inclinations. I believe that if people analyze how they work, that many of us have this in common.
In this painting series, I start off by showing you the original painting I created at the lodge this past weekend. This was the view from the deck looking off onto a barn and, in the distance, the Blue Ridge Mountains. The second two paintings (Take 2 and 3) were created using the original painting as a guide. You can see that I got a little bit more loose as I continued to revisit the same painting (ie. Take 3). There are things I like about all three of the paintings. I love the texture in the barn from the original painting. I love the bark on the large trees behind the barn on “Take 2”. I love the tree textures, the bright colors, and the mountains in “Take 3”.