Sleep Little One

18 x 18 Acrylic On Canvas

Up on ebay tonight.

I believe every baby has at least one angel.  This is a very special time.

 I really love these backgrounds that I have been playing around with lately.  They take about four steps.  First I do a thin layer - with a lot of water - big blocks of color.  Then a bit of a thicker layer - more blocks of color.  Sometimes I do this again.  I use a pretty big brush for the background.  Then I mix the over layer - depending on what kind of colors I want in the painting but it is chalky and sort of gray - sometimes a gray green or a grey blue etc.  I thin this with a lot lot lot of medium and brush loosely over the whole background.  It ties it all together and the the blocks of color show through.  I purposely don't brush over certain areas to give it an old distressed feel - esp the edges.  I got the idea from some Renaissance paintings I was looking at where they have the chipping stone walls in the background.