Finished up another 4×4, just a few to go!
Squirrely Completed
September
26
2005
One more completed, this is a squirrel I’ve painted before, but this time he’s little bitty and he’s all patriotic and stuff.
Next up, a Gator!
Polish Chicken Completed
September
26
2005
Another 4×4 “loose” piece, this is a Polish Chicken. It’s pretty hard for me to stop at loose, I’m such a tightly wound realist! My camera does NOT like true blue at all. What is up with this flourescent glow?! My eyes are buggin’ out.
Will scan later!
Harley Mousie Completed
September
26
2005
This little guy is more “loose” than my usual technique, and it’s intentional. I have a few more of these patriotic paintings to do, hoping to finish them up in the next couple of days. They are all 4″ x 4″, little bitty things.
I’ll scan them when they’re all dry and post cleaner images.
Uh, Turtles
September
25
2005
(As nicely as possible, as many times as you want!)
(p.s. blame Mark. He made me do it. He didn’t make them do it, but he did make me show you them doing it!)
Noodle Kitty Completed
September
24
2005
Noodle is finished! I’ll wait until she’s dry before I sign her, and I’ll post a scan and details after I varnish the painting.
Have a great weekend!
Noodle Kitty WIP #2
September
23
2005
Here’s the second work in progress on this kitty painting I started the other day. This is the underpainting plus one layer, I have another layer or two of fur to go. The eyes are pretty close to being done and the nose is finished. This is an 8″x8″ oil painting, in case you were wondering.
me and my brushes
September
23
2005
My brushes and I have been separated for too long, and I miss them. It’s not that I’m not painting, I most certainly am. You can view all of my recent works on a few blogs (in the bullpen, snapflame, the girl next door), and even some clothing). In fact, I’m waiting now for 3 more illustrations to hit the airwaves, and one rough sketch that I’ll also be painting within the next day or so. But it seems, to some, like that’s not the same.
Even I will admit, it’s not quite the same as throwing in a CD, positioning the fan just so, cracking the window and letting the smell of oil paints fill the air. It’s (almost) better than a candle, at my house. Things are better when oil is in the air.
I’m better when I’ve been in my zone for a while.
So today I’ll be in my zone, I hope, all day. I’ll throw food, paintbrushes and watercolors at the children and hope they don’t kill eachother. If it sounds like they might, I shall turn up the volume with my remote, and sing along a little louder.
When I finish, I shall show you what I’ve done. And I’ll update you on the status of my children and how they fared the wrath of eachother as sisters. Wish me luck.
Here’s something pretty, you’ve been very kind and oh-so-patient, and also it’s sortof a bribery so you don’t tell on me about the kids.
(It’s a first prize rose, two toned pale pink and dark pink.)
Thursday Thirteen #6
September
22
2005
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My other Thirteens 1. I dream in full color, and my dreams are so real that nearly every day I wake up tired with clear memories of what happened in my dream. 2. I picked a winning box of Finding Nemo cereal, and we’re the lucky winners of a Disney Wobbler Collection! Woohoo! Weebols Wobble but they don’t fall down! 3. I got about 5 hours of sleep lastnight. 4. I was up late working on my Ordering information, and Sales & Specials. 😉 5. Still swimming 7-8 laps a day at the YMCA. I’m even getting a little faster and a little less out of breath each time I go. 6. I have a new pair of shower shoes. Neener Neener! 7. I love my new blog design. I love that when I look at my sidebar I start singin’ little ditties. It makes blogrolling fun! 8. WordPress dot com is up. www.wordpress.com. I am very excited about this! Why? Because maybe, just maybe, I can get people to join my cult and get a wordpress blog and find out what it’s like to blog in the best platform ever made. Seriously. I love it that much. 9. Since going live in my new blogaroonie layout, I’ve switched completely over to Firefox. I’d been using it intermittantly, but when the design was complete there was some code that IE just didn’t want to read and/or get along with. I hate that. So I opened up Firefox, saw my blog, and selected it as my default browser. It’s so much better that I even became an affiliate and link them over there on my sidebar. So if you don’t have Firefox, go try it. It doesn’t conflict with IE, so if you keep IE as your default you can just open pages in one and the other and see for yourself. Things are better when your browser knows how to read code! 10. I’ve completed 36 projects this year, between paintings and custom illustrations. That doesn’t include the 4 projects waiting in the wings. (and yes, Clara, the Dewdrop Daisy is among them!) 11. I keep fashion catalogs purely as reference materials so when I draw people, I have a ton of models ready and waiting. And they look nice, too. 12. I’m gonna be a maid-of-honor next summer! 😀 13. I am always looking for smelly-good candles for our house, spend way too much money on fragrances that smell raunchy when they fill the air. I have “scented candle frustration”. There. I’ve said it. Links to other Thursday Thirteens! |
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