#InMyStudio - "Dreaming of Orvieto"... gets a make over

Well, I thought I had reworked all the pieces I owned and that I had nothing left to "fix".

This piece has been up #InMyStudio since I got back from Italy and I guess altering it, just hadn't come up.

But this weekend - I took it down to put up my beautiful new Reindeer head that I got for Mothers Day.

So I thought... "what the hell"...  Everything I am doing at the moment, is about practice!

At first Kitty was literally having heart failure that I was going to alter this...

But she eventually came around!  As for me... I'm completely blown away!!!

To me it doesn't even look like the same painting.

I originally did this piece in OilPaints - it was before I had learnt how to use Acrylics,
so my makeover would have to be in oils too... mentally - going there can be a challenge in itself.

Don't get me wrong, I love oils!!!  It's just a gearshift sometimes.

I was seriously trying not to freak out, esp at this middle stage.

My oils are getting old and a bit stogy.  I need to update some of them.

I was working with it thickly and it was messy and I was covered in OilPaints.

But I sat for about 5 hours straight and it was truly amazing when she started to appear.

(Funny, my girls always say to me - "Mommy, don't panic - she will come to you!")

And it felt so true with this piece.

What these two pieces look like together - what a transformation.

The soft naples yellow background just works so much better - it terms of a softer dreamier feel

and probably more in line with Italy!  And I'm loving the softer lines.

Totally stoked with this new/old piece.