Blooming blossoms

I'm so glad I shared my wip background last week. It was just the motivation I needed to get back to my little table easel and keep working on it. I've been so inspired by all the beautiful blossoms everywhere this spring, and have been capturing them with different cameras, and I wanted to capture them on canvas too. I'm not quite sure if it's finished yet, although it might well be. I'll have to let it sit for a bit until I know.

I have to say, though, that the photo does not all show the picture as it is. I don't know what's wrong, but Blogger seems to completely mess up the colours when uploding it. This is not at all how the edited image looks in Lightroom or Photoshop, and definitely nothing like the original. The background is much subtler and the blues are much brighter and softer. It's far too busy in this photo, the original isn't. It's a grey and rainy day here today, and very dark, so there's no point in trying to take another picture, and I don't know how to fix the problem in Blogger. Or maybe it's the browers. I don't know. But because it's friday, and therefore Paint Party Friday, I'm sharing it anyway, even though I'm not at all happy with this representation. You just have to take my word for it that it looks a lot better in real. And I'll try to get a better photo once those dark and heavy clouds have lifted. Although that might take a while.

My painting mojo has been gone for so long, that it actually felt rather strange to pick up a paint brush again after all that time. But I hope that it will finally be coming back now.