A Painting A Day

Since I had some success with my abstract that I sent to I.O. Metro, and since I had to send it to them and won't get it back, I decided to do another abstract similar to the one I sent them. I used brighter colors and my inspiration for this one, like the last one was fire over water.

I find doing an abstract particularly hard to do. I'm so used to structure that it's very hard to get free. I am not really happy with this, but think that I need a lot more practice, and so will do a few abstracts over the next few days and see if I can get more comfortable with them. ;)

Several weeks ago my husband told me about a contest at I.O. Metro (very cool furniture store chain). They were looking for local art, and the winners work would be reproduced on canvas and sold in their stores. I don't normally do abstracts, but my husband encouraged me, and so I did this one and entered it in the contest. Today I found out my piece was selected! My art will hang on the walls of the I.O. Metro stores and maybe on the walls of many homes! All I can say is WoW! I am so thankful, and so happy!