Ribbon Study - 'Orange Circles'

Ribbon Study - 'Orange Circles' / 6x6 in / oil on Gessobord

 

I have done another study of ribbons for today's post. I am still playing with rolled ribbons, wishing to get interesting compositions - hmm..... I will see how it goes.

Ribbon Study - 'Green Circles'

Ribbon Study - 'Green Circles' / 6x6 in / oil on Gessobord

 

Painting is fun !

Wrapped Words Series - 'Courage'

Wrapped Words Series - 'Courage' / 5x5 in / oil on Gessobord

 

The word inside of the box is 'Courage' and I think my bow tying skill is getting better.

 

 

 

I love my view finders.

Wrapped Words Series - 'Hope'

'Hope'         5x5 in        oil on Gessobord

 

This is second one for my Wrapped Words Series. 'Hope' is wrapped inside :)

Wrapped Words - 'Create'

'Wrapped Words - Create'    /      5x5 in     /    oil on Gessobord

This is first painting for wrapped words series. When I saw other artists' wrapped gifts paintings online here and there, I immediately knew that I wanted to paint them too. I always thought wrapped gifts were beautiful but I had never thought they could be great still life subjects to paint. So when I saw painted wrapped gifts, I was so excited to find a new props.  Soon I started collect small boxes and colorful ribbons: meanwhile I also started to think about what would be true meaning of gifts , what kind of gifts I would like to receive or give and what was the best gift I got so far....... these thoughts have lead me to start 'wrapped words' series and I picked 'create' for the first word.

 

I wrote 'Create' on paper.

 

and placed it in the box

 

wrapped it with ribbon and painted it.

 

I know it sounds like unnecessary work because people will only see the package but , to me,  it's meaningful that an inspiring word was there while it was being painted.

 

 

Ribbon Study - Orange Spiral

Ribbon Study - Orange Spiral / 6x6 in / oil on Gessobord

 

 

'30 paintings in 30 days' starts tomorrow and my theme for the challenge is painting wrapped gifts that I named it 'Wrapped Words' : I will explain what it is about later (probably tomorrow) in my blog. I have planned this a while ago and am very excited to start it as I am participating in '30 in 30' this September. I have been collecting small boxes and colorful ribbons for this challenge and I thought I should start studying ribbons. This painting is one of the studies.

 

This a photo of some of the boxes and ribbons that I have been collecting