SaskiaKC
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my daily painting challenge to myself...
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Took about an hour.
A4. Acrylics.
Hand hurts badly. This is one of the reasons I stopped drawing and painting last few years...the arthritis in my hands also. Thumb is seized up and painful.
But painting always has been my thing.
I couldn't do this without those shaving brushes, they make painting easier, and have chunky bit to hold.
I have ordered some more from China, so I am not cleaning them each time I change the colour of paint.
Even just squishing them on a piece of kitchen towel ((to clean previous colour off) wrecks/pains my hand. So plan is half a dozen more of these shaving brushes and just drop them in a bucket of water (when I need a new colour) to clean later. I also need a shaving brush dedicated to white and one to yellow paint.
Maybe I should have ordered more, they are less than £1 each.
But I do need to see how they paint with first.
But I am not giving up this daily painting challenge just because my hand is painful seizing back up.
Have a good day.
My bins were put out last night!!!!
I need a nap. Been awake since 3:50am.
But first an important email I have to write...(actually I dictate all this, because of my hands, but the software does rearrange what I dictate into a completely different story...)
Be good or not!
Live your life and do what you want to each day!
Hugs freely available to all.
Beautiful. That is one that should definitely go on the calendar (if you do one).
But I am sorry to hear about your hand pain. Back when I was doing a lot of writing I tried to solve writer's cramp by learning to use my non-dominant hand. It was VERY slow going -- the letters looked worse than my first 5yo-6yo efforts, and my hand could not keep up with my thoughts.
I once read a novel about a right-handed artist who learned to paint with her left hand after suffering a stroke, but that was fiction. I don't know if she was based on a real-life painter the author knew ...
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