I just finished uploading his final images,

Go see the Frog!

Hope you are all having a great weekend, I am going to run a couple of errands!
xoxo

Okee doke folks, I have completed painting him and the night-time flash photos just aren’t what I want them to be! I will take pics of him in the morning after he’s clearcoated.

So, there you go. Is the suspense killin’ ya? He looks gorgeous, I am so proud of how he turned out!

He needs to fully dry (overnight), and I will clean him and clearcoat him first thing in the morning. Then I will get those final pics!!

I’ll be back!

Ribbit, rib ribbity ribbit, rib rib ribbity rib, kwim?

Ok guess what I did today. I’m only going to give you one guess. DING! Yes, you’re right. The Frog!

Started out the day with some swamp additions, then sketched out a few creatures, got to painting…did some administrative type things, back to painting, then in for the evening to get the girls all bathed and ready to go to Grandma & Grandpa’s for the weekend! I will be painting ALL day tomorrow to finish this fella. I have a few more things to do, each side of him will have his own swampy animal, and the swamp will also have some lily pads, lotus flowers, highlights and things to make it really very fun.

He is scheduled to ship on Monday, leaving here in the afternoon!

Honey’s portrait arrived at her home today, yahoo Honey! And thanks to mom for letting me paint her, she is a SWEETIE PIE!

After Swampy takes off I’ll be getting Rocky, Simba and Dom ready to go home, too. (Pouty face, I like their company…sniff…sniff…)

I also added links to Toronto on my home page, and on the wildlife artwork pages. It was a quickie logo insert, but my client wanted to make sure that anyone he sends here could find the progress page easily. Also, he’ll be sending me photos of Toronto once he’s in place at the waterpark! I am so excited I can hardly stand it, the way he described it makes me want to change our vacation route to swing on up across the border! It is going to be so cool! If any of you are in or near Aurora, Ontario, stop and visit him for me until I can get there, k?

Ok go look at the frog!

xoxoxo

Click to see today’s progress!!

I received this beautiful bouquet of flowers & balloon’s from my absolutely amazing hubby in Iraq. Now how sweet is this, to get flowers from a man in a war zone 6000 miles away. He is the best hubby EVER!!! (Today is the 3rd Anniversary of our second marriage after a 2 year break and 7 year marriage prior to that with 2 years of dating..haha, figure that one out!)

Been painting on Toronto Swampy today, I have his eyes done and I have about 10 minutes worth of daylight left - I may set up a lamp or something in a few minutes so I can get the grasses done. Either that or I’ll get up at the crack of dawn in the morning to continue painting on him. Hm. Dawn is sounding like a better plan.

I have more fabulous photos to share. (they’re big!) If any artists are reading this and want to paint them please do, and let me see it when you’re done wouldjya? Two of them are very dramatic photos of the Sweetheart Roses in my Anniversary Bouquet. (Know what I got him? A fancy schmancy print that I formatted of a section of our vows that were/are absolutely perfect for our second marriage to eachother..what else do you get a guy who only has wall space and tacks?)

On to the photos:
Dramatic Anniversary 1
Dramatic Anniversary 2
First Prize Rose Closeup

‘Til tomorrow!
xoxoxo

Wanted to get a pic of me after my marathon, and since two of these (Honey and the Stargazer) shipped this morning I had to get it done early! So sorry for the scruffy dew-rag look but hey, it keeps my hair out of the paint.

Anyone else having troubles seeing the info and scroll columns to the right of the text here? Please let me know!

I wanted to share some of the pics from my new camera..these are amazing! Yes, I will be painting a few of them, and Erikie will be, too!

These are big files, if you want to see the detail of the shots you’ll need to let them load. :)

Double Delight
Pinkie
Double Delight II
Caitlin Closeup
Pinkie II
Sweet Sleeper
Sunset
Squirrely eating Breakfast

The squirrely shot is a smidge blurry viewed large. Still figuring out the zoom on this.

Going to be sketching on Toronto Swampy today, we’ll be heading down to a local swamp/marsh for photos, too!

Yep, the frog has arrived! I started working on him at around 11:00 AM and finished around 7 after a run for more paint. Over to your right, underneath that handsome fella I like to refer to as “my hubby”, you’ll see a blank frog. If you click that link, you will go to my “Toronto Swampy” Frog Log where you can see what I’ve accomplished today!

EDIT: I’ll also put the Frog Log Link RIGHT HEREe that last fixer-upper of the frog pic/link didn’t work again!

xoxoxo!

Just completed Simba, Rocky’s roomie and pal.

The frog arrived, got him unpacked and set up to start, I need to go hang sheeting around him under the carport so he’s protected from the elements while I begin to spray the first coat of enamel (it’s an adhesion promoter). By the way, Mom helped me clean out the garage yesterday so I could park Mark’s truck in there. I think this is the first time we’ve ever parked a vehicle in the garage! LOL! Yahoo! Thanks Mom!!! xoxo!

My new digital camera arrived too, have the battery on the charger already so as soon as that’s charged I’ll take pics of the blank froggie and get a page up for him so you can see his progress!

Here’s Simba… also 10×10 in oils…

I’m going to be working on Simba this evening, will probably post him tomorrow. I sent Rocky off to Mama too so she can have a looksee (and just in case you’re wondering, all of the P’s said it’s cool for you all to see their babies portraits!)

Also wanted to say a quick THANK YOU! to all my “new” friends and commenters! You guys are all so sweet! I am going to save replying & e-mail stuff for morning, it seems to be the best time for me to dig in on that before treadmilling.

So ok, here we go. He’s a 10×10 Oil Painting (caution: wet paint!)

I hope you had a wonderful weekend and enjoyed your pit-stops here to see some pretty eye-candies!

xoxoxo