Inspiration Sunday

The challenge this week seemed very difficult:
card 1:- choose an old painting that doesn't work, choose a subject unrelated to that painting, and paint over it using a medium of choice, using transparent and opaque paints


card 2:- combine themes, painting something that makes you blue, something that makes you green, and in between them, something that makes you laugh

I was having difficulty thinking up something that would include everything in the 2 cards. I thought, and thought,.....and then it was Sunday morning.  The storm overnight dropped another 9" !! of snow, to go with the other 9" we'd already received this week! That meant no painting, as I needed to shovel.
The satellite hook-up we use for the computer and phone wasn't working. sigh. Snow-covered. Rats.
So I shovelled, and painted a bit, shovelled, painted, repeated, then clambered to the satellite dishes to sweep away the snow.
Once I started painting, I decided that the cards had inspired me ( kinda the whole point, right?)  and I just went with the spirit.
The old painting:

 yuck! flat and ugly

 gel medium and white acrylic

 blue, and green, and something that makes me laugh in between? Well, quinacridone makes me smile.
I used transparent sap green and indigo watercolours, and the opaque titanium white acrylic

 scraping into the still-wet paint with a palette knife showed the colours from the underpainting

 See? I love this!

 the blue and gold were a little too dry, so the scraping was not as effective

 I added branches of indigo, green and gold to complete this challenge






I like the colours from the underpainting peeking through and looking almost like ghost branches in the background.



Next challenge:
card 1:-picking a colour scheme, enhance your painting with acrylic ink
card 2:- paint glass in an intriguing way

Hope you've been having a creative weekend.
I'm off to clear the snow from  the truck, walk Cody-dog, and probably do some more shovelling.

Thanks for visiting
Hugs from Suz