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 was just flipping through some of my zoo pics looking for a feather and eye reference for Thor, and remembered this one. I love this photo, and I’m so happy that it turned out well. I’ll be painting these macaws in this composition on a really neat sized canvas (eventually), for now you can just enjoy the photograph! Aah. Pretty birds.
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.
It’s already 4PM?! Cripes.
Well. I was up at 6:30 this morning stripping the beds and starting wash. I cleaned the refrigerator, took out the trash, cleaned the bathroom, folded and hung Mark’s entire wardrobe, changed the wash, vaccuumed every floor, shampooed every floor, hooked up my new refurbed flat panel monitor that I got for about 3-cents ’cause I’m so cheap (hence the background color change, and Tony, I’m sorry I put you through that. LOL), went down and got my hair done, grabbed lunch, picked up a new Rx for Caitibug whose eyes have worsened so we’re going to drown her little eyeballs in antibiotic drops until they’re normal again, changed the laundry 4 times so far, and took a pic of my new do (and eyes all dolled up) and here I am.
Do I get a prize for having the longest run-on sentence ever? See if you heard me say it on the phone, I would have said it just like that, without breathing. So if you took a breath, go back and read it again. Really fast this time.
Here’s me a little while ago. I just got the standard chop-chop and chunky blonde color. Jeez is my nose really that big?? HONK HONK.
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Yes, I’m going to paint. Yes, I’m going to scan in the three kitties. Yes, I’m going to resketch the macaws. One thing at a time, beginning right now! (On your mark, get set…..)
OH and my new screen resolution is 1280×1024. Everything is teenie on the screen, anyone know how to make it a little bigger without stretching it all wonky like?
My goal for tonight was to get this underpainting completed, and voila, done. I would like to finish this portrait tomorrow, but won’t even be able to begin working on him again until this layer is dry which will be around 1-2PM tomorrow afternoon. (Note to Riley’s dad, please let me know if the bed color is correct, the photograph was a toss up between drab olive and taupe plaid.)
