Studio Monday: Old Tricks

I always wanted to incorporate live (or dead) plants in my work. If the piece eventually decayed - even better. I used to do this, and a stopped. There will be more on this later as a song I listened to over the weekend really peaked my interest and now I want to do a piece inspired by it. Once that piece is in the works, I'll be sure to elaborate more on the concept. In the meantime, I continued working on a piece and started a new piece inspired by another song. I've been working on one for a while, but decided to revisit the old concept of using live plants into my work. Here's a sneaky peek of the concept with peek of new WIP:

I hope this all works out. I'm very slow when I do paint because I wait for my pieces to dry before adding more layers. I'm usually one color at time, but trying to break that. Also acrylics dry fast, but in the dry time, I get distracted. I'm working on it. Tomorrow or next week I'll post a Thoughtful Tuesday on a piece from last year as well as a recently completed piece I haven't added to my 2015-2016 gallery. Excited for all the new things and inspiration. Thank goodness for good music.

This weekend's motivation brought to you by Insomnium's "Shadows of the Dying Sun" album.