This is what happened to me after I ate a technicolored fruit.
I've noticed something important about me - you have to tie me up to keep me away from blue, yellow, orange, magenta and green.
I once had such a fixation on the color blue that everything I bought, consciously and unconsciously, from clothes to umbrellas to the dog's leash, used to be blue. I've recovered somewhat these days.
I also once went overboard with green when painting a vegetable market scene. The vegetables were green, the stalls were green, the people wore green, the trees were green, the birds in the trees were green. The professor held it up to the class as an example he didn't want to ever see again and said, "I suppose we should be grateful you didn't paint the sky green too, huh?"
And then he vented his spleen at a friend of mine who had painted a zoo scene with a three-legged peacock.
"You idiot! Is there even such a thing as a three-legged peacock!"
"But, Professor, don't you see, that's exactly why they have him in the zoo!"
I got bitten by a vampire. A VEgeTaRian vampire. ;-)
Next? Competition for Dora Maar.
I look much more like me today than I did yesterday. :D
For some reason, I haven't done that many self-portraits and I seem to shy away from realistic works, but I had such fun doing this and I like my strokes here. Considering the horrible, horrible landscape I did last week - and am not posting here - this is a big improvement.
Regular, constant practice is the mantra, of course. It's rather ridiculous to not have done much for quite a long while, and then suddenly expect everything to fall effortlessly in place.
Tomorrow I'll try something different. Maybe work just in black and white and red.
After quite a long gap, I've started painting again. I've decided to do one self-portrait a day and in ArtRage. I have five oil on canvas works going on right now, but my camera died and I won't be posting those until I get a new one.
I'm also in the process of revamping this blog. It's got a new header for starters, it went from a black background to a white one, and there will be some more changes coming along. The main one being, of course, doing more work and posting more regularly.
If you walk far enough, you will reach the BlueRain mountains. Everything there is larger than life and greener and brighter too, because it rains every morning and every evening. A light blue, life-giving rain. On the mountain slopes, carpets of flowers bloom. Yellow and pink and blue and white and orange and red. I'm going to paint them one of these days.
I'm working on a new series involving music and especially violins. Here're two of the works done digitally in ArtRage.
