STUDIO UPDATE

This piece took me in a direction that I was not planning on taking, initially my idea was to do create a moderately abstract piece full of flowers which I wasn't so much focusing on the realism as I was the impulsive and expressive brush marking. I mixed modeling paste with acrylic paint to add a thick, textured look and feel to the painting but when i didn't like the flowers I had created, I didn't want to go over it while it was wet. I decided to take a palette knife and spread out the image. My first thought was to create a thick base for my next layer but I now like the way it looks as an abstract take on a flower piece. I like the idea of pressing flowers into this kind of base when the paint is wet, but for now I will leave the canvas.