Several months ago when I went to Scott's I fell in love with a cow. Not an actual cow, but an incredible oil painting. Love at first site. Sadly, the beautiful painting was out of my budget and did not get to come home with me.
Last year, House Beautiful featured an awesome home in Texas which featured none other, than a COW as the show stopper above the mantle.
Months past and I still have not forgotten about the cows.
The painting, Gorgeous Grace, by Linda St. Clair.
This weekend I decided I would attempt to paint my own cow inspired by the image in House Beautiful. Random? yes. But when you suffer from bathroom renovation project A.D.D the only solution is to paint a cow. After our morning coffee, I looked at John and said "well...I think I need to paint a cow today". Yet another reason why I love him. His response, "Absolutely".
To me, the tricky part about painting something yourself is knowing when to stop. I reach a point that I feel like I'm one brush stroke away from disaster...or masterpiece. I just don't know when to quit. She is not perfect by any stretch, but she IS a cow. What do you think?
***after seeing a picture of this painting, I feel like I need to move the eyes down just a little bit. what do you think? agree? or NOT worth it?
6 comments:
"the tricky part about painting something yourself is knowing when to stop. I reach a point that I feel like I'm one brush stroke away from disaster...or masterpiece"
EXACTLY HOW I AM WHEN I PAINT. i reach a point when I, or , Nick walks by and says, stop, it looks good. i recently painted a piece to eventually frame and hang above our mantle and during the process of paining (along on a friday night with a glass of wine ;) i had to keep walking out of the room for a few minutes and 'looking at it fresh' to see what and if it needed anything. i am my worst critic - im pretty sure you are yours ; )
LOVE the cow! great job. where will she live?
thanks jur! MAJORLY fighting the urge to move the eyes down!
I think the eyes and the whole painting look great! I'm so impressed!!
I promise I'm going to post pictures of our room and give you so many wonderful shout out's but we're having some problem with backordered pieces and such. We should finally have everything in by the end of the month so hopefully I'll get something up soon! But I LOVE everything about it and am so glad that I got you to help me!
Have a great day!
She is PERFECT!! leave the eyes. I am IMPRESSED!!! when can I order mine????
Wow Laura! As usual I am totally impressed! It looks great! Where is she going? I would comission you do do all sorts of projects in my house if we lived close and saw eachother more than every nine months!
Laura Jeff! You are so creative and talented. This is awesome! She is beaut-i-ful. I'm so impressed. Don't move her eyes, she is loaded with sass JUST the way she is.
Impressive!
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