When my friend Denise saw my “winter to spring” series of paintings that I painted for my loungeroom wall, she asked if I could paint something similar for her in colours to match her living room.

Immediately I felt two things at once:

Extremely honoured that she would think my work is good enough to hang on her wall, and;

Terrified that I would screw it up!

Her living room has lots of shades of olive greens. This is what I came up with:

I had to stand on a chair and hold the camera over my head to take this photo, so it’s not great.

I haven’t shown the painting to Denise yet – I hope she likes it! It’s scary painting for others but so much fun!

This week’s challenge on Inspire Me Thursday is:

I thought this was a very interesting topic! I was a bit too lazy to get my paints out, and my scrapbooking stuff was right next to me, so I made my inkblot using a piece of scrapbooking paper, some blobs of Making Memories paint (the only colour I have is pink!) and some Kindy Glitz. I folded the paper in half, and this is what it looked like:

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One of the reasons I was so looking forward to having this blog again was so that I could participate in Inspire Me Thursday again. Inspire Me Thursday is a website where a new prompt is posted each week, as inspiration to create something artistic. I haven’t done much art in the past year or so, and thought this would be a great incentive for me. I’ve decided to participate in this week’s “kitchen” challenge. read all »