I’ll be painting for a smidge more tonight, only for about another half hour. Sooo if you happen to be on, you can watch me work on Sandy’s nose! 🙂

Hey! That was a fun painting session! I got pretty far this afternoon, have to stop now, we have a “back to school night” in just a little while. I will leave the cam on for a while, it will start getting dark in there in a bit and I’ll shut it down for the night unless I can get back there to paint more!

He’s a pretty dog, I’m sure you might be thinking “huh?!” but trust me, he will come to life right before your eyes!

Have a good night!

Erikie talked me into it… you can now watch me paint on my webcam!

If you look over to the right, you see Mark’s photo, and links to my auctions. Under my auction links I have added a link to view my cam. Click on that, and the page will open with a small window where you can watch me paint! Please let me know if the image quality is wierd for you, I am sure I will be working out a few bugs as I go.

I will not have the cam on all the time of course, so you will have to check back and I will let you know when I’ll have it on for public viewing. It is on right now, and I will start painting shortly!

😀

Ahh much better. 🙂

He’s finished! I’ve been working on him on and off for a few days now, today was “finish Asia’s portrait” day!

I will be working on a dog portrait next, his name is Sandy. This one is my custom pet portrait auction winner! He’s a sweetie pie too, of course!

Our baby Cardinal is back, mama was watching overhead as I took some photos this afternoon. I got a couple of really great pics, I think this lil guy wants me to paint him (her?)! So I will just have to do that!

I am hoping to hear from MidCoast Fine Arts tomorrow, the application said that letters would be mailed out on the 20th. I thought for sure they’d be in yesterday’s mail, but nope!

I am also very excited that my beloved Anniversary Rose oil painting has a new home. What a phenomenal journey the past week communicating with my client about this piece, I will have to share the whole story soon! (It’s a long one!) I could not have hand picked a better owner for this painting, and I wish I could deliver it in person! It’s one of those things that was meant to be. You’ll know what I mean when I have a chance to sit down and write it all out! 🙂

I hope you all had a great weekend!
xoxoxo

I’m working on another kitty, this one is a commission. He’s a Siamese sweetiepie. My intent is to leave the background very loose like this and paint Asia realistically, I think he’ll really pop off the canvas this way! 🙂

I was up at 6:30 this morning, just had to paint. It was nice and quiet, the girls were still sleeping. Just me, my coffee, and my paint! 🙂

Jayden is feeling TONS better today. Her fever broke yesterday afternoon, I think she had a fever for a whopping 5 hours total. Any of you with kids, Tylenol Plus is the way to go. I gave her Tylenol Plus Cough & Cold yesterday morning, then Tylenol Plus Sinus at noon, and Motrin Cold in the afternoon and her cold is pretty well wiped out. Phew!

I have to share my new plants with you, too! Miss Erikie sent these lovelies to me and now they are living happily in my sunny studio! Thank you Erikie! I hope the Jasmine likes its new bird cage, I found that yesterday at the grocery store. The other one..ug…starts with a B…Erikie…argggg my poor memory and these foreign sounding plant names! What is it again?!?! LOL

We’re just hanging out today (you know, like every other day! LOL) I will paint more, do s’more webdesign stuff later today, and also I need to get THREE paintings’ documents ready & packed, all three of my latest kitties are going to their new home tomorrow! 😀

Have a nice, relaxing Sunday everybody!

xoxoxox

Michael Fräse, someone whom I consider my Artful Guardian Angel, just listed this painting – a tribute to a Police Dog named Vasko.

Have a look at his painting, grab a tissue (or two or three), and read through the auction text.

Tribute To Vasko

God Bless Vasko and every other K9 Police & Rescue dog. What amazing creatures they are.

Well folks, this is it.  My application to be a member of the MidCoast Fine Arts Organization!

My app will go in the mail tomorrow, and I’ll find out around August 20th.  Once accepted (positive thinking!), I will receive the 2005/2006 Exhibition schedule, and my work would hang at The MARK, Centre Station (by John Deere Commons), and/or the RiverCenter – all located in the Quad Cities.

Mark helped me select the pieces that will represent my work the best, and I spent all morning putting images together and burning them to CD!  Think happy thoughts for me will ya?  Thanks!!!

It’s a rainy day here, so we’re just hanging out.  I wanted to go to the zoo today (more reference pics!), so fooey on the rain!  I will paint this afternoon, and finish the piece I started lastnight.

Hope you’re day is sunnier than ours today!

xoxoxo

updated 7:48PM:  I finished another one!  Enjoy!  The painting is still wet, the pic is blurry, and the color is off.  LOL!  (I couldn’t wait to show you though!) I’ll get a better pic and all that jazz tomorrow in good daylight.

Good morning!  I have a few “progress photos” to share today.  I didn’t take pics of all of my band-aids, and I’ll just leave it at that.  😉  This view above here is for all of you who have never visited the Mississippi River before, yep, it’s the Mighty Mississippi.  You know how folks say “it’s only a hop-skip & a jump away”?  Well the MM is literally just a hop from here!  Skipping and jumping is optional upon arrival.  They have a beautiful parkway (when it isn’t submerged) with a bike path, I took the girls down there this week when I had a bug fogger going off in the house.  (iew, bugs.  bitey bugs.)  It was a gorgeous day, obviously a few other folks were enjoying it as well.  🙂

I finished drywalling the family room, taped most of it, need to mud it and get the cabinets in there.  I also put a floor down in that space, and will cut the carpet back further for a few more tiles in a fun half-circle design.  Here are a few shots of what it looked like the other day…

Drywall Completed

this is what’s going on that wall…except for one piece I found space for after I drew this out!

The Entertainment Wall

The old living room carpet is gone, bye-bye old yicky carpet!  Guess what was underneath?!  Yes, tile, but really old tile, and the kind that needs to be treated before you go walking on it barefoot or anything.  So I treated that on Thursday night and yesterday morning.  Blechy fooey on uncovering more problems with every project!  Dagnabbit!!  (I can whine just a little bit can’t I?  I mean it’s just me doing all of this, and I’ve been really good about not cussing like a regular construction guy would be..lol)

Now I do need to get the baseboards painted in the living room but I HAVE to take a day (or two) off from this.  It is making my mind warp in ways that just plain hurt.  I took it easy yesterday, believe it or not, and only painted the part of the baseboard around the entry way so I could get the new floor down in that area, well then I thought heck, I may as well paint the door too, so I did that.  (Someone smack me!)  Here’s a teenie little preview of what I did yesterday and what it’s going to look like with the new carpet:

I do believe I’ve caught you all up with the past few days at my house, sans the really pitiful me that sat and moped and got weepy over missing my hubby so much…not to do the work, but just for me to rest my head on after I finished.  He knows how much I dig these projects and what a tomboy kinda gal I am, the only thing I ever say “I can’t do that” about is getting up on a ladder – and now I’m doing that too.  I miss my man.  9 months to go.

BTW, I haven’t updated my weight loss progress in a while.  I’ve lost 42 pounds now.  I have 21 pounds to go to meet my goal, and 9 months to do it.   Hm…that’s about 2.5 pounds a month, and I’ve been averaging 8.4.  Not too shabby, I’m actually quite pleased with myself since I’m down 3 sizes (6 if you count by 1’s, lol), fitting into things I haven’t worn since 1997-98.  Even found my favorite jeans, Levi Silver Tabs that I loved so much and have been looking for for years – in a bag of my “don’t fit into these anymore” clothes – pulled them out and they fit really nice, and they’re a Junior’s size!  I love it when that happens.

Ok better get moving for the day.  I hope you all have a beautiful, calm, sunny weekend!!

xoxoxoxoxo