![]() It is a time for you to perform at your most efficient way to avoid as much mistakes as u paint. :D Back to the subject though the visual outcome of the piece came out randomly, I think the trick for a speedpainting is applying what you have already known or familiar with, technically. I rarely write nowadays so I try to dust off my writing skill and improve my vocabulary, the little that I have. For the rain always reminds us that we're at the mercy of the Creator, or at least should wash, sooth, or heal our inherent sorrow of our insignificant existence. Those days, people would stop and still be thankful for the rain. There were seemingly silence and stillness in the worldly affairs of human, at great odds with the roaring force of nature. Or curled up on the half flight of the front door stairs, dozing off. The housecat would stare at the rain too, but with a dazed look on her face. Two thick streams of water gushed down the front porch's W-shaped roof and into the overflowing large vases. The countless hypnotizing circles of tiny ripple on the water's surface. Seeing how the water flooded the low parts of the ground in front of our house. Then my sisters and I just looked at the rainfall. Embrace the whole experience and praise be to God. Sometimes it came so abruptly with a loud cracking sound, and my late grandma - there was always my grandma in these - would benignly remind me not to close my ears, which I absent-mindedly did when there were thunderstorms. A comforting crescendo just before the first raindrops. The sound of distant trees rustling in the wind, flashes of lightnings blindingly lighting up the heaven and the earth they touched. I could almost smell the sweet breezy fume of air, even now. I would kneel on the sofa by the window, my younger sisters would occasionally be there too. There was a strange melancholia just before the rain, when the nimbus clouds blanketed the whole sky. For me, a downpour sends me to childhood memories. I'll share another one in one of my next posts. I love how weather affects people emotionally, of which I created several artworks that revolve around this theme. So the steps I'm about to show you is this fixed version, with each step took an average of 2 or 3 minutes : As I proceed to fix on top of that original file, I overwrite all the layers involved without any thoughts that I might need them for a later use. I took another 15 to 20 minutes more to improvised the overall picture for my own finished collection of artworks. If I'm not mistaken, the theme for that daily challenge was "Rainy Night" : I think it's for a challenge in an art group called "Spitpaint". So this is a quick 30 minutes painting I've made some time ago.
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