HAPPY FRIDAY!!!!!!!!!!!

Aaah. Have you ever seen such a beautiful thing? We ran down to Blick this morning for a couple of things, and I just had to bring my camera to get some pics! The first place I headed, the Oil Asile. Sigh.

They just started stocking their Masterwrap Canvas recently, which is my favorite! I could have climbed up on that mountain and taken a nap! And like some people are addicted to pens, we artists tend to be addicted to brushes! (I can’t ignore the other side of that aisle, it just wouldn’t be right.)

The coolest thing that I was so tempted to buy were these new huge brushes! That’s Jay’s hand, she wanted to weech them but couldn’t! They’re pretty big, eh?

Yep, I have so much eye candy today I’m just having to hide it all behind text links. LOL

One last pic for you, I’m still working on Pearl, and really have quite a bit yet to do, believe it or not. Here’s a progress shot of her from my painting session lastnight:

She is starting to look like she’s supposed to now! Yay!!

Have a great afternoon/evening everyone!

Heya! Sorry I had to take the cam down without warning this afternoon. I am determined to finish her face tonight, and you are welcome to watch!!!

Sooo, go on and click on that cam link right over there ————>
and don’t forget to zoom it to 200% to see the whole capture area! 😉

I have a beautiful photo that I took this morning that I will share when I finish up and post her progress pic tonight. Make sure if/when you come back, you scroll down right in this entry to see the images, I’ll add ’em right down here. 😀

ONE WEEK TO GO TIL MARK COMES HOME! Whoooooooowie! We are so excited to get to spend two whole weeks with him, I can’t even describe it! I’ve arranged the first night already, kinda honeymoon-ish. 😉 Jay and Caitlin are both thrilled of course, Jay keeps talking about sharing her birthday cake with Daddy and making him wear a hat and hold balloons. hehe! (Ready for that, hon?)

I’ll be back in a bit!
xoxoxo

And one more for my bestest bud who isn’t obsessive compulsive AT ALL. I swear.

She just loves my purdyful flowers. 🙂

As you can see, I still have plenty of work to do to get this “up to par”!

I will begin painting in just a few minutes, working on her facial features. Starting on her eyes, then finishing her forehead and temple area, then I will work her nose, cheeks, lips, chin, and finish up with the shadows on the side of her face, ear and neck.

There are some small areas that I plan on tweaking a little as well, so hopefully I can get all of this done before I leave to pick up Jay from school in a couple of hours!

The cam is on and pointed at the painting, I have set the view to “large”, which means when you click my webcam link (over there—>) that you will want to adjust the size by right clicking on the cam image and zooming until you can see her face, or my hand! LOL

See you soon!
xoxoxoxox

Here’s progress shot #5.

Her wrap, turban and cape are done. I started highlighting and deepening the skintones and will allow that to dry overnight, then really get into her facial details tomorrow while Miss J is at school. 🙂

I am going to start painting in a little while, I will set up the cam and turn it on in a minute.

This is a collage of the first 4 work in progress pics I’ve taken of this piece. You can click to view a larger image. I put it together so I could see the progression too, thought you might enjoy it!

Going to set up the cam!
xoxoxo

I am getting ready to paint! (Cam link)

The sale went well yesterday, I got rid of about half of what I took over there. YAY! I was beat though, what a long day! It felt like it was time to go to bed at 1 in the afternoon yesterday.

I will start painting in a very short while, just have a few things to take care of so I can dive in. I’ll go ahead and set up the cam and turn it on, and I’ll update right down here if anything else is happening, and post another WIP shot here tonight, too!

p.s. don’t forget, yahoo ID intricateartist will give you a larger, clearer view, and if you open it via the webpage you can view the large image if you right click and zoom to 200%. Ooh, yes, and if you have yahoo and add me, it may be a little before I can add you back. The computer is a room away from the studio. 🙂

6:07PM CST: Well it’s been really quiet today. I’m going to break for a couple of hours and start up again just after 8PM. I have a progress pic of it for now, I wanted to try to get a picture that has natural light so you can see the boldness of the colors. I finished her wrap, turban, and started in on her cape. I may make some revisions to everything before I start on her face, it depends on how I see her tomorrow.

I’ll be starting up the cam in a few minutes to continue working on “Girl With A Pearl Earring”! You can watch thru Yahoo IM (my user ID is intricateartist), the image is much clearer/sharper thru IM. Of course this link still works, too! 🙂

Hey, I am going to set it as a “large image”. What this means is that on Yahoo you can see a larger view of my cam. Through the cam link, it will initially show a small portion of the larger image. If you right click and zoom to full screen, then hit your escape key, it should take the cam size to the larger view as well. Please let me know if that doesn’t work for you!

12:41 CST: I’m leaving the cam on, but I will be away for a little while!
1:40 CST: Going to start painting again in a couple of minutes 🙂
6:33 CST: I’ll be back at the easel just after 8 my time.

Here’s the work in progress shot for the day! The yellow headwrap is finished, I’ll work on her turban and coat/cape tomorrow, then I can concentrate on her face. Here’s the link to the original again so you can compare the hedwrap: Original Vermeer

Hey! I am going to be starting up my cam here in a couple minutes, and will be back & forth painting all afternoon! 😀

Wanna watch? Click the cam link over there —————->
OR, if you have Yahoo IM, you can add me, ‘intricateartist’, and see an even larger cam image than the one on that page. Once you add me, just click on my “watch me paint!” next to my ID and the cam window will pop up!

I will post a progress pic later on, after I finish painting for the day.

5:27 PM: The underpainting is finished, still SO MUCH work to do on her but I love how she’s coming along!! I’ll leave my cam on it for a while so you can see it there, I will get a digital pic after dinner, we’re HUNNNNNGRY!

Here are the digital pics:

Sorry, I wanted to paint today but it was not dry enough for me to start working on her skintones! Bummmmerrrrrrrrr.

I did get my hair done again today, it grew 3/4″ in about 2-3 weeks! That’s the only bad thing about having a short hairstyle, it requires more frequent maintenance.

Played with the girls this afternoon, we played pool online for a while, then downloaded Slingo from yahoo and Jay was kickin some Slingo-butt! We dressed snowmen and played a couple other pre-k type games, then the girls disappeared for a few minutes and when I went to see what they were up to they were cozy on the couch under blankets a half hour before bedtime. Awwww.

My custom pet portrait auction ended this afternoon, and I’ll be painting a kitty for my lucky winner! >^..^< Meow! I will update again tomorrow, it should be dry enough for me to finish up the underpainting. Nitey-nite!
xoxoxo