Original Oil Painting, Abstraction with Crabapple Petal Paint
Original Oil Painting, Abstraction with Crabapple Petal Paint
Abstraction with Crabapple Petal Paint, 2024
In the shade of an unruly silver maple, crouching on a lumpy lawn, trying to become an ASMR painting tiktok person for a hot minute, I pulled out my palette knife for the first time in a while. I dipped into my plastic bag of crab apple petal dust and mixed it with oil and cold wax. We painted the deck from top to bottom last year. I never, never, never would have chosen red, but my love likes bright colors too. He was right, as usual. He hands me a palette knife, he hands me petals, he hands me a chance to live a little more colorfully. I'm kind of a bench when I'm focused on work. Time to take a break and refocus on a peaceful evening.
-- X -- X 3/4" impasto oil paint on stretched canvas with crab apple petal inclusions