New painting!

I've finally gotten back into painting--I got a little burnt out running my Etsy shop and had to take a break. And it's easier to get some time to paint now that Scarlet is older and doesn't eat as often.

Here's the first one. This is actually an older painting that I've painted over a couple of times. I ended up not liking the last finished product because the paint reacted weirdly to the previous layer, so I figured I'd excavate the previous layers, add some stress to the canvas, and see what I came up with. I'm pretty happy with the finished product:

This next one is one that I'm working on right now for our living room. It'll be a four panel square painting. You can see the under paintings done on the four canvases, and I'll be adding the extra color to the floral elements on the other three that aren't done yet. Then I have some various mediums I'm applying to the paintings--iridescence in places, glass bead gel, etc...

And this next one is just a little snippet preview of what I'm also working on right now. This is going to be a big one: 48 x 48 (using two canvases). I'm really excited about this one! What you're seeing here is actually going to be painted over and started again. I was trying different techniques on different parts of the canvases as well as different types of paint to get the desired effect and finally found a clean, precise way to do this painting. I can't wait to get it finished!