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| "Mint With A Honey Bee," by Clare Walker BoundingSquirrel.com |
Hello there
This week's offering is a digital painting (in Krita, completed stroke by stroke) of the kind which I realise have not actually posted here in a while.
There's a story behind it, too. After the best part of three years trying to get wildflowers to bloom in one of our window boxes, we have achieved this feat: with mint. Yay! Not only that, but it turns out that honey bees seem absolutely to adore spending time on the recently-flowering mint blossoms (double yay!). Watching them as they bury themselves deeply in the tiny, fluffy, florets of the mint flowers is also *the* most calming way to spend...much more time than I'd realised...
Plus there have been plenty of minty summer drinks and soups to be had :-). So, it's been an absolute win all round.
A Low Key Beginning...
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| Stage One of "Mint With a Honey Bee," |
This painting had a very low key beginning, as you can see from its first stage (above). the more I looked, the more it felt a bit...bleh...and as if something major was missing, but just out of reach.
So I began experimenting with the many different ways to filter, alter and add more colour in Krita. And after some hours of (frankly) "happy play," with the app/program, I realised I'd ended up with the much more dramatic version of this painting that you see at the top of the blog....And which I'm calling finished (for now...;-) ).
What Next?
"Mint With a Honey Bee," isn't on sale, or playing any role in anything anywhere (yet). This week, it was just a lovely way to celebrate a small success...and happy bees.
But I loved how it felt to be this daring...as if a whole new dimension of something new just might be peeping through. Watch this space.
And whatever happens next with artwork here, it's already a definite success for our, "wild," window box project. In the case of mint and bees at least, it seems that I *can* say, "Plant it, and they *will* come..." :-)
As ever, thank you *so* much for being here, and for reading down this far. May all be humming in your world, too.
As ever, thank you *so* much for being here, and for reading down this far. May all be humming in your world, too.
More soon.
