I refined her eyes and nose tonight, they require the most layers of paint for three-dimensionality so I’ll let this dry tonight and while I’m working on her fur tomorrow I can enhance them more.
This pup really isn’t purple and mud, you know. This is that whole skin/bottom layer/dark shading thing I was telling you about. Gotta build from the bottom up! Tomorrow she’ll start looking more “normal”, and by the end you’ll wanna reach into your monitor and sqwish and love her to pieces! 😉
Here you go, this is a fun Friday night plan for those of ya hanging out at home:
Open up my webcam, resize the window to your liking.
Then open up this nifty little gadget, and cut some snowflakes!
Have fun!
I paid dearly for my chocolate binge lastnight, I have NOT been able to get going today at all! So far today the only thing I accomplished was moving stuff around here in the blog. It took 7 hours just to publish these changes, so while it was lagging I kinda sorta fell asleep. Chocolate gives me a serious drunk/hungover feeling, I wish I would remember that BEFORE I eat it! :P~
So now you know, I’m a vanilla girl. If only they made vanilla brownies. haha!
I’ll paint tonight after the girls go to bed, having a nap under my belt I should be able to stay up reeeealy late! It will be about the same time as lastnight, around 8:30-8:45PM CST for those who want to check back then. I’ll update when I turn my webcam on!
xoxoxoxo
I’m just sitting here catching up on news and I see this:
Caption: “Covering their faces, Iranian women, who are members of a suicide commandos unit, chant Islamic slogans, during a ceremony where the first suicide commandos unit was inaugurated at the Behesht-e-Zahra cemetery just outside Tehran, Iran, Thursday, Dec. 2, 2004. Members of the unit said they would bury all occupiers in Islamic lands. Some 200 masked young men and women gathered at a Tehran cemetery Thursday to pledge their willingness to carry out suicide bomb attacks against Americans in Iraq (news – web sites) and Israelis. The ceremony was organized by the Headquarters for Commemorating Martyrs of the Global Islamic Movement, a shadowy group that has since June been seeking volunteers for attacks in Iraq and Israel. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi) “
Can anyone explain to me how the A/P is there taking photos of them “graduating” suicide bomber class, but we don’t have ANY military or police there waiting to handcuff them and carry them off to wherever we’re putting terrorists nowadays? What the heck is on the list of “terrorist qualifications”?!?! UGGGGGGG.
Ok rant over. You can scroll down and look at the pretty picture now. 😛
Here’s her underpainting! Pretty freaky, huh? Heh! I do have fun spooking everyone with my underpaintings. BOO. (it’s really not that scary is it?)
Good morning! 😀
I’m going to work on the new blog today, try to get my archives moved over and stuff. I’ll paint tonight, after the girls go to bed. So if you wanna watch, plan on about 8:30PM CST! I’ll be back around then and update when I begin.
Have a great afternoon!!
P.S. After my commissions are finished, I’ll be painting (quite) a few new pieces! I’d like to paint another Red Tailed Hawk – I have a few more reference photos that I took that are amazing. I’ll also work on a series of smaller rose paintings, 6×6 or 8×8 size on gallery wrapped canvas. If you’re looking for something in particular, let me know!
Whew! I’m sitting down!
As promised, here’s the second work in progress of Bailey’s portrait. ‘Auntie M’ recommended red, so red it is! 😉
Just as FYI, the holiday gift basket giveaway has ended and the winner has been contacted. If we don’t hear back within 3 days, the runner-up will get the prize! I’m hoping to be able to send out an announcement when we hear back, and then of course everyone who entered will get special pricing on custom portraits for a designated time. (After the holidays, sorry! I’m booked right now!)
I continued to “de-clutter” today, and you know when all the clutter is gone, it just looks so bare? Yea. Well I solved that problem this afternoon. LOL! Leave it to me, never an un-creative moment in my life. Here’s what I created this afternoon…
I wanted some color! It was all white back there behind those shelves. Blah. And blah is not allowed in my house. ;P~
Now I’ve got some webdesigning stuff to do tonight, so I will catch up with you tomorrow! Have a great evening!!!
I know you guys have been waiting for these! “J”, if you want the big versions just let me know, and I will drop them in e-mail to you!
I have been BUSY this morning! Got up (earrrrly), treadmilled, varnished WB&F, did dishes & cleaned the kitchen, did laundry, started uncluttering the house, paid bills, painted the background on Bailey (which I will post in a little while), scanned WB&F, pieced the scans together and now here I am!!! I still have more to do!! I’ll be back in a bit. Enjoy!
Click the thumbs for a larger view. 😀
I had one too many problems today with blogger.com publishing my entries et al.. so I installed a new blogging system on my server! YAH! It only took a minute to install it, but getting everything set up (template, entries, archives) is going to take a while. I’ll just do a little bit each day and when it’s ready to go you’ll see some slight but very cool changes to my blog.
Perks:
– Smileys!
– you don’t need an account to post a comment.
– a search tool to search just my blog archives.
– post categories.
You can see where I’m going with this…up up and away!!
I’ll let you know when it’s far enough along for you to have a peek. I am HOPING I don’t need to do an address change, and will do everything in my power to make it work at this location! If not, I’ll do a reroute on my end so you don’t have to change your link if you’ve got me linked. It’s kinda like moving your office from one end of town to another, but staying in the same building. heh! ;D
