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| "Pink Champagne" Original Artwork by Amy Yosmali |
Do you ever wake up and think to yourself, this is going to
be a great day? Nothing to stress over,
no appointments, meetings, or potential for unexpected time sucks to pop up. Just a good start to the day to a low-key day. Today was one of those days, the only thing
that could make it any better would have been if the sun had managed to come
out from behind the clouds.
I love when the day starts off just right, coincidently on a
day that I had blocked off as “paint time” at the studio. Before I had even got out of bed, I knew that
I wanted to paint a large canvas painting today, and that the colors speaking
to me were pink, yellow, and green.
Miraculously,
my young children somehow managed to get dressed and out the door for school
without the need for me to go into “mommy drill sergeant” mode, amazing – I know! So, having managed to keep my great mood in
tact I got myself out the door and straight to the studio before anything else
could come up. Now it was time to prep for doing the large
painting.
I like to paint flat, and usually work on a large
workbench. But with large canvases, I
will lay down drop cloths on the floor of my gallery and work. I work all in one painting session, so I need
to have everything laid out and easily accessible. Once I start painting, the clock starts
ticking, and I’ve got to work fast enough to complete the work in the time that
I have allotted for that session. While
working I’m constantly moving all around the paintings, reaching, bending, stretching
along the way. It makes for a very, very
long but rewarding day.
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| "Pink Champagne" in progress, Artwork by Amy Yosmali |
Today, like all the others in which I complete a large
canvas painting, I take a few minutes to focus and cue up a song (or sometimes
songs) that I will listen to repeatedly to help amplify and sustain the mood
that I am in while painting, since I paint emotionaly. It was a
great day, but nothing that I normally listen to was speaking to my emotions,
so I decided to switch over to my Pandora station and see if it offered anything that
would catch my ear. Pandora did not disappoint,
and sure enough it offered up the song “Pink Champagne” by Venus Hum which seemed to be a perfect
fit for me in that moment and my color palate!
I really like the funky, happy vibe of the song.
To me it feels as though time is suspended yet at the same
time it flies while I’m painting. And
next thing I know the painting has come together and is completed. Too often I don’t take pictures or video
of the works in progress, as I either forget, or don’t want to break from being
in my “zone” so to speak. But today I
did manage to get a couple of in progress shots that I hope you will enjoy.
This was a wonderfully fun piece to create and I hope that
you will love it as much as I do!
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| "Pink Champagne" Original Artwork by Amy Yosmali |
“Pink Champagne”
Original Art by Amy Yosmali
48”x48”x1.5”
acrylic on canvas (gallery
wrap)
Retail: $4645
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