20" x 28" acrylic on canvas
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Another pallette knife "floral" painting today.  Actually, this style is more about color fields and texture than florals, but the little flowers give your mind something to grab onto - other than colors.  This is larger than I've been painting and it feels good to stretch physically with a larger canvas - not just stretch mentally to work on new techniques.  The 3 vases just sort of happened - one of those happy accidents in creativity.  After I put in the green vase, I realized I had 2 strips of color next to it - one orange and one pink.  So the orange and pink just morphed into vases - sort of.  It's so fun when you start having a conversation with the painting as it's developing and it tells you what to do.   Or strongly suggests that you follow a little curve in your journey.

Funny thing - I thought I was almost out of white paint and I was going to do a painting without much white.  That didn't feel good.  I'm trying to back off on yellow and red for a while and giving up white was just too much.  I also just felt like I had another tube of white somewhere - and it finally popped up when I was getting ready to paint.  This probably has about a half of a large tube of white on it!!  Guess I changed my mind on giving up white.

The weekend's here - hope yours is beautiful.