My abstract painting in the Art Exhibition for Inspiring Women المعرض الفني للمرأة الملهمة

 Dear Diary..... Starting a new day..... 

I am in the middle of preparing paintings for an art gallery in Sharjah. It is a bit hard when I know that I have a deadline...I stop thinking, my mind just stopped.. no ideas no colors... in a very crucial time... otherwise ideas flies everywhere when I am free of deadlines. 

I had to search for ideas, brain storming a lot (hint: Pinterest) to get colors palette and texture ideas... after starting one of the painting.. putting base color and some texture, my son just surprised me with his finger prints all over the painting... adding a unique new style in my painting.. 

It's almost a month now till the gallery, only texture is added.. looking for the painting everyday.. I don't know why it is so scary to add colors now. 

Now, I changed my mind and I will start over one of the selected paintings... which is not weird at all for an artist.. to change regularly.. I think this is us.. this is how our minds works. plus changing colors, subject all the way to ending up painting layers over layers till we are satisfied with the final one. not weird at all...... 

With all excitement happening in my life, including family events and daily actions, work tasks and projects, me and my own tasks, thoughts, moments.. being in the mood to paint is not easy to establish or to bring into my life busy schedule. Working 8 hours is really exhausting and feeling the end of the day that it is over, no more energy to do anything else.

I end up staying up for 2 nights to finish the paintings, working on three paintings, I took 1 painting only from it to the gallery.. it is a bit of frustrating to try to have the perfect painting, where people will say WOW when they see it, or stay still can't talk and drawn in the painting... I took another ready painting which is really good looking (for me at least). Working on labeling and I will send them soon to the gallery in Sharjah. See the painting as I posted in my Instagram account too: 

 So tell me what do you think of the painting.. 

Have a wonderful day.