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I have a great preview for you today. I’ve finished “Love Potion #9″ and here she is…
I can’t wait to get this in a nice thick black funky frame and hang it on the wall! Look forward to some postcards of it as well. She’s hot hot hot!
It’s been a while hasn’t it? I’ve been a busy little girl.
I stopped in to show you all my experimentation with putting my artwork on some 4×6 postcards. I love how they are coming out!
Cute huh?! Check back for more!
Thanks to candace for helping me stay up to date with my promises hehe!
Here is one of the poses I promised, it’s for Perfume which is…was May’s theme. Yes, I am catching up! Here it is where you can see it larger on my flickr.
Since I did the sketch shown on the left there I created a new perfume bottle and refined the braids. This piece will most likely be names “Love Potion #9″ and that will be evident once you see the final.
The digital comp you see on the right above was done in a rush, I wanted to start painting but I also know by now that color comps (in detail) are soooooo helpful once you are painting. You don’t have to think, you won’t have to rework areas, you just follow the color comp. It’s wonderful. So there it is.
This piece is already transferred to an 11×14 gesso panel on which I’ll be doing oils. If I love this piece I will take the time to do it once more on my beloved wood panel, but the prep time of a wood panel takes me at least a week and a half so I have decided to switch back to gesso panels and hope that I still manage to paint with the softness it seems I have when I paint on wood, instead of the rigidness I feel I have when I used acrylics on panel.
I finally found a reference for my June piece, just have to get the time to do a photo-shoot for it since my concept is pretty challenging. Thanks again Candace, your work is charming!
So check back soon, if I have time I might even do more LIVE painting shows for this piece, yay!
Yes so I am running behind, I disappeared for a month and I apologize, because of one of the bigger work related projects that I have done. But I am back amongst the blogging and art communities finally.
I raced over the last few days of May to finish April’s painting for the theme of Absinthe. This is a 24″ round piece of Oak, it was pretty interesting painting round, not sure I’d choose to do it again really.
A popular alcoholic drink in the late 1900’s with Bohemian types in Paris, Absinthe was referred to in historical literature as “la fée verte”, translation, the Green Fairy.
I have two paintings to catch up with our little collaboration, and a bunch of posts…I should go do that now actually. So check back over the next week, I will do a photoshoot Saturday to set up the poses for my next pieces, then sketches will ensue!
To continue the collaboration, this month’s theme is Absinthe. A popular alcoholic drink in the late 1900′s with Bohemian types in Paris, Absinthe was referred to in historical literature as “la fée verte”, translation, the Green Fairy.
So I’ve chosen to illustrate La Fée Verte.
Here’s my illustration and color composition. I’ve also chosen to put it on a circular panel of oak.
It’s all prepped here, 3 coats of clear gesso on the wood panel, and the illustration is now penciled. Next I will decide if I will put down the same acrylic matte or not, tough decision!
The last painting is still drying, awaiting it’s coat of Artist’s Retouchable varnish. It came out beautifully though, I’m so thrilled, you can see more of my picts and some picts from my trip to Hotlanta on my flickr page.
Here she is, in all her glory, the painting for April’s…March’s theme, “Window”. This is not 100% finished because I am mounting it to a REAL vintage window. Which is all cleaned and ready, but there are a lot of steps to oil painting and one is to wait for it to dry and varnish it. I will wait till next weekend and apply Artist’s Retouchable Varnish to protect it for the next 6 months. Then I’ll be applying the final varnish. So…I should have the full reveal for you, let’s see…around May 1st, after the Artist’s Retouchable Varnish dries and I’ve had it scanned. Then I will temporarily mount it into it’s display window complete with the cool sign I made for the top, and then you’ll finally see this piece in it’s full glory, trust me, you’ll want to check back!!!
Happy Spring to those of you in my hemisphere hehe. I am just so happy to see buds on my two huge weeping willow trees and some fresh green grass. Bout time, everyone has been so cooped up a fresh dose of spring should do wonders.
Since I can’t bring flowers into my house because my kittens would eat them, I am in the process of making myself a lovely bouquet of flowers, calla lilies (shown above) to be exact. Hmmm maybe I will make a smaller something or other to blend into the bouquet as well. I just thought of that hehe, maybe some cute wildflowers. Anyway, as my imagination runs off that way, let me focus and say again, Happy Spring to you all, I hope it brings you many smiles.
Hi there!
Just wanted to share with you the progress I made today on the painting during my show. Here is a peek at what I started doing on the show today, which is adding dark values.
This is the before…
So tune in on Tuesday between 12pm and 1pm EST for another show where I add more values and such. Actually I don’t know what I’ll do, I just do it spontaneously.
As for this 2nd color comp, I had to fix the lighting on her face before I felt comfortable starting the actual painting friday night. I over did the tones here so I could easily reference them while doing the painting. Otherwise I was afraid my habit of under-shading would happen yet again.
My attempt at restarting my lunch hour live show failed today, I had technical difficulties. But I think I will do a show tonight, even though the lighting will be regular old light bulb instead of this beautiful sun I have now. It will be at 9pm EST.
I’ll be working on putting the values down (shading) on this
Day’s go by so fast, don’t they? Then once in a while, out of no where, BAM! something bad happens.
This time it was our little love love, she stopped eating, stopped drinking, then slowly stopped cuddling and purring. Then she got grumpy, as all babies do when they don’t feel good. And as all mommies do, I started to get really, really worried.
Took her to the Emergency Vet when she started vomiting blood, a long hour ride full of fret, but yet, love love seemed to be energized by the car ride. By the time we got to the vet she was acting like her usual self. So we brought her home and to the vet the next day, where she again acted normally. The vet took care of her and her little upset tummy with extra gas (this is when I realized she had stopped fartin’ too) and sent her home with us where we got to try to medicate her ourselves. THAT was fun…
Anyway, for all of you who worried for me and for her, here she is, back to her normal cute and cuddly self. I missed the hugs, thank goodness they are back. Thank you for your support!
