More Harlequin Diamonds . . .

I just had to try painting some harlequin diamonds today.

 

Of course I didn’t want to get all ‘mathematical’.

Like I could if I wanted to!

So I just eyeballed it.

I knew they were a little off, but I’m a little off too, so I figured it’d work just fine.

Since I was painting on watercolor paper, I painted plain water on one edge of the each diamond, then painted a little color.

I had to go edge by edge because the paper was wet and if I tried to fill one diamond in all at once the paint would smear or lift.

So, you can see the diamonds are off, but at this point I had no idea how I was going to finish the painting anyway.

 

I decided to go with brown. Blue, brown. Pink, brown. Brown seems to be everywhere. Even in babys’ rooms.

I filled in the brown diamonds the same way, keeping the center really pale by watering down the paint.

A few dots of blue to camouflage the skewed diamonds.

By now I had a ‘plan’, so I just painted a quick blue border.

Whipped out the Sharpies and outlined everything.

I needed some paint ideas now. A blue and brown combination isn’t just for little boys anymore. I see them in little girls’ rooms too.

And big girls’ rooms!

I decided to just paint some silhouettes.

Birdies! Could be Mama & Baby . . .

. . . unless my grandson is looking at it. Then it’s Daddy and Baby.

When BBH and I took him to the zoo for the first time last year, every time he’d see 2 animals, he’d always say, “There’s the Daddy tiger and there’s the Baby tiger.” Even if the 2nd tiger wasn’t a baby.

I’d say that’s a pretty big tribute to my son.

But then, I might be a bit biased.

Just a teensy-weensy bit. Maybe.

A few eggs . . .

. . . in a really simple ‘nest’.

Done! Fast, too!

WHAAA?

That’s my ‘plan’!  I’m thinking I’ll paint a bunch of different backgrounds, designs, with different colors, right?

Then people could choose what they want – a name, an initial, maybe a saying. . . or a couple of birdies!

What do you think? If you were buying some wall art, would you like to pick the background, pattern and what you want for the focal element?