Ok, Now How to Narrow It Down.

Hello there, My name is Bonnie, I tend to paint, and this is my first blog. :) If you've seen my paintings, it's because you've been in my living room and they are everywhere. I usually stick to landscapes with plenty of green in them, typically lots of trees too. I've had an oil painting of an orchid in an art show recently, but other than that, it has just been a passionate, mild hobby. But I've been thinking. I'm...thinking about a series all about animals. I miss working with animals and I'm afraid my heart isn't strong enough for wildlife rehabilitation anymore. Perhaps this will be therapeutic.

This is my first attempt at an animal in acrylic rather than oil paint. (My husband was cleaning and accidentally threw out all the little, messy tubes of paint I won't miss- ha, but he did me a big favor by doing this. And too bad for us both that I didn't realize it at the time!)

So something with animals (my favorite, although I've don't really paint them ever for some reason). Maybe with an abstract backdrop of different colors for each painting. I'm interested in doing a woodland animal theme and might eventually travel elsewhere. I'd like to do a mirror image; one as wildlife, another as a domesticated version- or something like that. Almost as if they are acknowledging themselves in the reflection of their counterpart. I don't want my paintings to look too serious either; it's not a scientific study, just inspiration.

I recently painted a small flying squirrel and focused on the subject rather than spending a lot of time building up an environment.This way, I could spend more time painting the animal and have a full series. It will be the animal, which would be the strong focus, not necessarily seeing it in the wild, but seeing not just wildlife up close but that specific creature up close- the individual.

Hmm.

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