Day 99: Helleborus Foetidus
Helleborus is the name of this plant. I have to admit that I’m kind of a plant geek. I love walking around and looking at plants, trying to guess their names and getting to know them better.This painting is different today, it’s dark and a little mysterious. I wanted to try something like this before the end of the project, and it was challenging, all of those green leaves just merging in the background, so I decided to make them more abstract designs. Chances are you can tell that I really just loved the shapes that the flowers make, it was where most of my attention was drawn to.Well, it’s the second to last day. Of course I’m going to keep painting and keep you updated and sharing with you what I’m painting. Today I realized that this project was the jump start I needed to really begin the journey of painting. For myself I feel successful just in the fact that now I want to paint each day, and not to just have the end result of a painting, but I look forward to the time in my day where I can paint something undisturbed and take the time I need to learn to paint and see something new that day. If this were the only thing (which it’s not!) I would have gotten from this project, it would have been worth it a hundred fold for this alone: the gift of discipline.Thank you for following the project and for all of your amazing feedback, you’ve made the project doable and kept it alive!To buy today’s painting, click here. To view all other paintings from the 100 day project, click here. All paintings are 6×8″, painted on birch, unframed and cost $100 (+ $15 shipping). You can buy a painting directly from the website using paypal or by contacting me directly at kellyaskey@gmail.com.You can share this project with someone by having them sign-up to receive the E Newsletter here. They can also follow the daily posts on my Blog here or join the 100 Paintings Facebook Group here.
Dennie
May 2, 2010 at 10:45 pmI am finding myself already at such a loss for the end of the project – Here we are at #99 and what a great journey it has been. Thank you so much for allowing us to be a part of your process. It has been inspiring, enlivening, and look at the wonderful work you created! I would never have had a sense of the size of Florence without your great description of riding a bike until the road ran out, and then painting that beautiful stretch of the Arno. Your careful consideration of the values and textures of so many carefully observed objects and scenes. Your paying attention to the range of greens, and light and shadow. You have developed a new kind of fluidity, and I think, a new assurance. You have really worked to develop your ‘chops’, and it really shows. Thank you so much, and please keep posting updates. Otherwise I will be serious withdrawal.