Hopscotch. What can I say about hopscotch? I think every kid has played this game at one point or another.

I’m really happy with the way this painting turned out mainly because it’s just fun! It’s a fun composition, I’ve been playing around with the birds-eye-view with some of my other projects and I really enjoy the results. I love that all you can see is the shoes. I’ve been told I have a thing for shoes- in my own life and in my art.

And once again, this painting lends itself really well to texture. I had to experiment a little to get that texture, but I got the result I was looking for. I was already in the middle of this painting when I realized that some gel texture medium would be perfect to get the concrete look. Unfortunately, the only one I have at the moment is the very coarse pumice gel that I used for the bubbles in “Playing in the bathtub” painting, which would not work for this one. So, I called Aaron Bros. because they are the closest store that carries a decent selection of art supplies and I wanted to know if they had any texture mediums in stock. Of course, they did not, but the woman suggested using sand or salt. Since I don’t have any sand lying around, I tried salt and to my amazement - it worked! So that’s the story of “Hopscotch”.