I’ve been painting on and off all day today. I’ve got the underpainting done on this Mousie now. Taba, you need to choose a name for your mousie!

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Here’s the mousey background, I’m doing a pretty drastic dropshadow on it cause it’s going to be a very 3-d comin-off-the-canvas kinda mouse!

Here’s another sketch ready and waiting for paint…

Here are Thor & Oz, I am not entirely pleased with the scan and need to redo part of it (dark banding where I merged, otherwise it’s ok to show ya!). I’m including large detail of both birds, hiding them behind the “read more” tag, so read more!

Custom Bird Portrait : Thor & Oz
24×24 Oil Painting
Gallerywrap Canvas
© 2005 Leanne Wildermuth
All Rights Reserved

They’re done! YAHOO! 24×24 (2ft square) oil painting. Final scan & stuff will follow. (wet paint!)

Whew! What a great painting session! I ROCK! LOL Just kidding. Partially. I am very pleased with this underpainting. Having this much done already is going to save me a great deal of time covering canvas. Now I can just work on the feathery lil-details! YAHOO! I’m going to finish on schedule!!!

Dontchya love this background?!

I’m roughing in their underpainting right now if you want to watch! Click the screenshot here to go to my cam page, or view through Yahoo IM.

I’ve just finished the re-sketch on Thor & Oz, they’re on a 24×24 (2ft square) gallerywrap canvas. I’ll start the background on them tomorrow after I finish up Riley.

I wanted to get these sketched out this morning so that I can start painting them as soon as I finish the kitties.

The first one, Riley, I’ll be working on the beginning of next week (starting Sunday, I think), he’s 16×20 on gallerywrapped canvas. Of course I’ll be painting both of these in oil.

The second one is an 18×18 (upgraded to 24×24, there will be a new sketch) of two macaws, the left is Thor (red) and the right is Oz (green). I’ll be painting them the second half of the week, and once they’re finished I will break from painting to welcome my hubby home and take some time off. (Yea, right! He’s going to have to chain me to the couch!)