- Waiting
- Apr 7, 2018
- 11″x14″ Acrylic
View from the Top
Sometimes the painting you plan isn’t the painting you create.
My original idea was simple: a green field with these flowers standing proudly against the landscape. Then I realized I had one small problem.
I was out of green paint.
I could have put the painting aside until I bought more supplies, but instead I asked myself a different question:
What else could this become?
Instead of looking across a field, I imagined looking straight down from above. What if these flowers weren’t growing in a meadow at all? What if they were sitting in a flowerpot on a weathered wooden deck?
There was just one problem.
I’d never painted wood before.
So before I touched the final canvas, I spent time watching tutorials in stops and starts, keeping spare canvas boards beside me to test techniques and build layers before committing them to the painting. Once I felt confident, I began working on the deck.
Funny enough, the thing I almost saw as the biggest challenge became one of my favorite parts of the painting. I was especially pleased with how the wood grain turned out. Even today, many people don’t notice at first glance that the deck isn’t wood at all. They have to stop, take a second look, and then realize it’s paint.
This painting reminded me that creativity isn’t about having the perfect materials or sticking to the original plan. Sometimes the best ideas appear when you’re forced to change direction. A missing color became a new perspective, and a challenge became an opportunity to learn a skill I probably wouldn’t have explored otherwise.
Sometimes all it takes is looking at the same subject from a different angle.
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