I’d mentioned before that I had become fond of Van Gogh’s Almond Blossoms painting, which I became aware of from encountering the likeness of the image on a nightlight, which I got off of Amazon Vine. Here, at the nursing facility where I now stay, there’s an activity room, for doing crafts and for getting on the internet, or just a computer, for residents that don’t have access, otherwise. One of the managers here encouraged me to do some paintings, since they have canvasses and watercolors, here. This is my third painting that I’ve done here, and it’s the first painting that I really sort of took seriously, in doing my best to fill in all of the white of the canvas, like a standard painting would have. I think that it came out well; I’d previously done an impressionist art adaptation of Van Gogh’s Starry Starry Night in polymer clay, which I textured with a pin, to imitate the impasto technique that Van Gogh is famous for. Here’s the image:
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