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New-in-progress Art

September 20, 2011

We are all pretty under the weather here at Casa Marcum, but I didn't want to let this roaring stomach bug leave you hanging.

I am sure some of you will not approve, but I painted over our big orange painting.  By now you should know that I am not afraid to redo things or change things that don't feel quite right.  This change was kinda spur of the moment.  Chris was headed off to a meeting and I mentioned, "That orange painting doesn't really go with our house."  He agreed, "Nope."  Right then he helped me take it down and in the hour he was gone, I splashed some colors that it SHOULD contain on the oversized canvas and then figured I would come back to it soon.  Well, I haven't touched it since--and it is kinda growing on us, although I definitely  plan need to go back in and tweak some things.


It feels a lot more free than the orange--probably because I didn't think and just did it to get rid of the orange that seemed to clash with everything else in our home.  Originally, we had plans to add in a few more orange-y accents into our decor, but we haven't--and I am pretty sure we won't.  
So, although I think the big orange painting could work very nicely in someone else's home (you know we're big fans of bold color)--it wasn't doing it in ours.  So instead of seeing this when you walk in the front door, "Hello big orange painting, Oh! you have furniture, too?":

The new art takes a bit of a back seat and lets other aspects of the space really shine:

Was:
Currently:
Although "in progress," we like it so much more.  Now excuse me while I curl back up into bed with Chris and listen to Greta jump in her crib instead of take a nap.  Why does she have so much energy on days when we definitely don't?!

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