Throwback Thursday: Two Years Ago

Happy Thursday Bloggers!  About this time  two years ago

I had just begun my painting adventure with artist  Flora Bowley 

and her Bloom True Workshop.  

I absolutely love the experience I had and still

use it for inspiration today! 

If you have a chance to take this workshop

or get her book,

Brave Intuitive Painting,

(available in my Awesome Books bookshop to the right--->)

I highly recommend it. 

Now, in the tradition of #throwbackthursday, 

here is my post from the second week of 

the Bloom True Workshop (originally posted 2/11/12)...

 with the addition of my finished paintings!

I had a fabulous paint day in the studio today!
 I began my second assignment (first lesson here)

in the Bloom True Workshop by
Flora Bowley and love what happened.

The colors really pop!  The lesson was about getting to

know my tools... the brushes... and whatever else I use

to apply paint!

I used cool colors over the warm colors . . .

and simply made different marks with paint!
And here's the finished painting which is available
for purchase here (towards the bottom)...

My how it blossomed!

For my second painting, I used the marks that reminded

me of roses (from the first lesson) and just went with that!

I had fun using a foam brush . . .

and contrasting colors!

It will be really fun to see how these paintings end up after 5 weeks!
Fortunately we can see how it ended up right here!

(Also available for purchase)
Isn't it interesting what lies behind a painting!

Happy Thursday and happy painting....

xoxo