Quick update, this is where Riley’s underpainting is right now. I’ll work more on it tonight. He’s 16×20 in case you’re wondering. 🙂

Here’s Kayda, the perky lil preppy girl. Wet paint!

He’s arrived on base, where he will spend the next 5 days going through “detox” as I like to call it. Right now, he’s probably kicking back with a brewsky unwinding with the boys, and hopefully he calls me later ’cause he’s a funny drunk. hehe!

Me, well, I’ve got W&N oils oozing out of my pores and I’ll be painting all day today! I’ll finish up Kayda and get the underpainting going on Riley, and hopefully re-sketch the Macaws so I can get their background done as well.

Going to go turn the cam on!

I just finished her – wet paint, glare, will scan when she’s dry!

Wet paint, digital pic, will post scan when dry, you know the drill by now yea? 😉

Here’s her second work in progress, this is her full underpainting. The next layers will all be done wet-in-wet, finishing her up. She’s a purdy girl!

I wanted to get these sketched out this morning so that I can start painting them as soon as I finish the kitties.

The first one, Riley, I’ll be working on the beginning of next week (starting Sunday, I think), he’s 16×20 on gallerywrapped canvas. Of course I’ll be painting both of these in oil.

The second one is an 18×18 (upgraded to 24×24, there will be a new sketch) of two macaws, the left is Thor (red) and the right is Oz (green). I’ll be painting them the second half of the week, and once they’re finished I will break from painting to welcome my hubby home and take some time off. (Yea, right! He’s going to have to chain me to the couch!)

If they’re not worried about it, heck, why should we be?

Lava glows in this time-exposure photograph taken just after nightfall at Mount St. Helens in Washington State Wednesday, March 9, 2005 from the Johnston Ridge Observatory. Reporters and photographers were given access to the currently closed observatory to view the mountain a day after a sudden eruption sent ash and steam 36,000 feet into the air. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)

From Yahoo, you can read this article. Here’s a portion from it:

The blast of ash and gas was not powerful enough to visibly scar the surface of the crater, but it was strong enough to destroy several monitoring stations used by scientists to keep tabs on the mountain, officials said.

Scientists did not know what caused the larger-than-normal plume, but noted that in the hours preceding the incident the seismograph readings had changed. While the peaks, indicating the strength of each seismic burst, were no higher than normal, the line separating them had become “noisier,” said Major.

“Usually that line is nice and flat. Instead it was creeping up and getting noisier and noisier,” he said, drawing on his pad a vertical squiggle that became darker as he drew it out horizontally.

But volcanologists had seen that pattern before when it did not lead to such a large belch.

I dunno, bunch of ash, a glowing dome, I’d be getting the H-E-double L out of there, wouldn’t you? Time for a nice long stay with some relatives back east, eh?

>>stops painting
>>runs for the camera
>>clicks
>>runs to computer
>>uploads
>>posts partial underpainting pic