I Did A Thing, vol. 32

One of the nice side-effects of my painting hobby is that I can redecorate my walls whenever the mood strikes. Put it differently, I am my own best customer. Every so often, I want to change up my wall art which serves as a good outlet for my painting studio production. Recently, I decided it was time to switch out the art above our bed:

Some of you may remember that this quartet of paintings was made by yours truly last fall. I liked them at the time, but more recently felt like I wanted something different. Luckily, my husband had no objections (to the old art or my ideas for the new). I wanted something more colourful, inspired by my Major Arcana mixed media work. To save materials, I decided to re-use the same canvas boards from before, and paint over the original pictures.

The first piece I made was inspired by The Magician:

Here it is with the mat:

After a couple of false starts, I added the Hermit to the line-up:

That blue blob on the bottom right hides the original logo on the image of the bookcases – it used to be a Moncler ad, of all things.

Here it is with the mat:

I then took a detour to the Minor Arcana – to the Three of Cups – because I was really drawn to these figures:

I kinda prefer this piece without a mat, but I had to keep it consistent with the others so:

Adding a mat did give me the opportunity to do something a little cheeky. Check out that hand – it ended up being my favourite detail.

I struggled a bit to find the right images to create the last piece, but eventually Strength came together quite nicely – it might be my favourite:

And, of course, with the mat:

I love these as a set and the vibe they add to the room now:

Next week, I’ll post about some of my other crafting endeavours. If you want to share some of your projects in the meantime, I would love to hear about them.