Good morning!

I woke this morning before 6am. I could not fall back asleep, I think the excitement is really kicking in! I’ve cleaned the house top to bottom, including the studio. I even went so far as to pick up some trays that work nicely on my drafting table, and arranged all of my oils by hue. Nervous energy perhaps? LOL

I met my goal for Mark’s arrival, lost another 1.5 lbs. which brings my total loss up to 51.5 lbs. 😀 I imagine with all the energy I have right now I will lose another pound or two before he arrives!

He’s scheduled to arrive on Thursday evening now. His current itinerary (as of yesterday afternoon) has him scheduled to depart Oct. 9, which gives us 16 days! YAHOO! And the bad part of it, he is very adversely affected by anything happening to his team while he is not out there with them, and yesterday it sounds like a couple of the guys in his unit were injured. 🙁 I hope they’re ok, it has been pretty rough over there lately and I just wish I were in charge, you know? I’m sure a lot of you feel that way, seems like we all would have a better plan to fix things there and prevent what’s going on than what is currently being done. Yea, I say put a woman with PMS in charge. We’ll take care of stuff pretty darn fast!! 😉

My version of “Girl with a Pearl Earring” is dry, and I scanned it this morning. I have a couple more images (linked) that you can look at, the first one is the work in progress collage from start to finish, I think 12 shots? It looks so wierd, different lighting makes every revision look like I did a major overhaul, so just consider the features and not the colors. LOL

Then the last one, I promise, hehe! A full scan of my painting (larger view) beside Vermeer’s.

And that concludes my 3-week long tribute to the Master!

I will finally get caught up on my e-mail now, and I would like to make a couple of revisions to my site, specifically the ordering information page. It is waaay too wordy! I will probably be removing a few things, rewording, and stop offering other medium for a while to work only in oils.

Okie dokie then! I’ve got nervous energy to spend, so I’ll catch ya later! 😉

xoxoxoxxo

I think! LOL I know, you guys don’t see any difference do you? I will update the collage of all of the work in progress pics later on.

I’ve got her hanging/drying in my new red room. 😉

Here she is in the evening, Wow. I love the ambiance!

you can click on the thumbs for a larger view, but be warned, the paint is still wet and I reserve the right to tweak her as needed. 😀

Now I don’t know when I will be updating, maybe later tonight, maybe not for a few days, I really don’t know yet! I will try to let you know!
xoxoxoxo

It’s still not dry, the digital pic turned out ‘eh’, so I cropped it and put it up next to Vermeer’s just so you can have a peek! It’s going to start getting really busy here!! 😉

I stayed up most of the night lastnight, between painting and tending to my sick little one, I’m a tired girl!

I think the painting is finished. I stopped so late lastnight that the paint isn’t even close to being dry, and the digital pic I just took portrays her skintones just horribly so I’m not even going to show you yet!!

I have a ton of things on the agenda today, so I will check in later!

Have a great day!!
xoxoxo

Here you go, this is a pic of my current progress shot (left, obviously) beside Vermeer’s. I will be painting today!! I’ll start up the cam around 10AM. I have much to do, and just a few hours to do it in! You guys have got to be pretty ready for me to just finish this piece, huh? Today, I promise! Then I’ll scan her and post the final, and that’s it!! I swear! :P~

Here’s a screen shot of what she looks like on my cam right now….

I want to finish her tomorrow, because I have A LOT of things to get done to get ready for Mark’s arrival!!!

Back soon,
~me

I just turned the cam on, and will be painting today!!

Stop over & see me! 😀

cam link——–>

Hey Lolo, we were at a clothing store this morning and I found a cute shirt with a Lolo label!! You’re designing clothes in your spare time, eh? 😉

P.S. Mark loves the new car! I took the pics down yesterday because I hadn’t hooked up with him yet to let him know I got it, didn’t want to shock him you know? hehe! He snuck in and saw the pics before I took them down, the stinker, didn’t seem too surprised that I did it, either. (Gotta love a man who knows his woman!)

Ok I gotta go, I gotta go, I GOTTA PAINT!!!

XOXOXOXXO

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!

I have to thank you guys, Paige, Carrie, Erika, Mom… you all gave me the sniffles yesterday! I don’t get mushy all that often, but when I do it is really awesome to see how much positive impact it has on people we’re close to!! Erikie you are right, too, I could not ask for more as far as the support and encouragement, Mark is the best!! So thanks to each of you, so much, for being there for me and for us! HUGE kisses & hugs for you!!

I dropped Jay off at school and she was miserable and wanted to go home. 🙁 It was reeeealy hard to leave, but I know she needs to be around other kids her age more often and sitting around the house watching me paint can’t be much fun for a 3 year old! My truck was leaking when I left there so I stopped at the oil change shop and I have antifreeze leaking down the back of my engine again. 🙁 After I pick Jay up today we’ll head down to a shop to find out if it’s the heater core or a hose or something. fooey on this big stupid expensive Isuzu. Don’t ever buy one of those things, they are way to expensive to maintain! BOO!!!

psst…I added a subscription box over to the right there, you can enter your e-mail addy and get e-mail notifications when I update my blog!

I ended up not painting yesterday – partly because I want to drag this piece out for some reason, I think it’s because I love painting her! It was also stormy and gloomy all day yesterday and the flourescents in the studio really alter the flesh tones so it’s something better done in daylight.

Now today is nice, lots of daylight out there so I am going to get back to the studio! I’ll be turning the cam on momentarily. I keep repeating myself, I know, but for anyone who doesn’t already know…

webcam link is over there—————–>
(right click on the image and zoom for full view)

or

yahoo IM: add user ID ‘intricateartist’
(might have to wait for me to add you back)
then click on “watch me paint!” next to my ID. 😀

Back in a while!
xoxoxo