Warming Weather and Warm Up to Paint

In southwest Minnesota, the temperatures have been below freezing for a few days. I’m used to winters in Minnesota when 10 - 40 degrees below zero temps - not just windchill - could sustain for days, even weeks. This has been the warmest winter ever recorded. Little snow cover and short-lived cold temps have me hungering for seed starting and imagining summer gardens and harvest.

This is a good time to do some warm-up exercises to get you ready to paint garden abstracts.

Pick colors that feel warm and sunny. Don’t be precious with your first marks. They aren’t likely to survive overpainting. You want to feel energy surge through you as you apply the marks. Think garden growth and buzzing pollinators.

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