I’m going to be working on Simba this evening, will probably post him tomorrow. I sent Rocky off to Mama too so she can have a looksee (and just in case you’re wondering, all of the P’s said it’s cool for you all to see their babies portraits!)

Also wanted to say a quick THANK YOU! to all my “new” friends and commenters! You guys are all so sweet! I am going to save replying & e-mail stuff for morning, it seems to be the best time for me to dig in on that before treadmilling. 😉

So ok, here we go. He’s a 10×10 Oil Painting (caution: wet paint!)

I hope you had a wonderful weekend and enjoyed your pit-stops here to see some pretty eye-candies!

xoxoxo

Here he is! He is SO beautiful!! This is 12×16 in Oils. (by the way Honey the Yorkie is an india ink painting)

Well Dom, how do you like your portrait? If you wouldn’t mind asking your mom what she thinks too, that’d be swell! 😉

Before painting commences, I wanted to share these lovelies with you:

Double Delight Blooms
New Orange Gerber Daisy
Mama & Youngin’ having breakfast
Jay with her hair down

Ah yes, the last one is not a flower. 😉

My new digital camera is scheduled to arrive on Monday, so I’ll be getting MUCH better macro shots of my flowers in just a couple of days! Yahoo!!

Going to work on Dom now.. my Mom is enroute – believe it or not!!! She’ll be here helping me out for the weekend. I just love it when family offers a hand when you’re buried up to your eyeballs. There was a huge sigh of relief on my part, since there is SO much to do to finish up these paintings and prepare for a weeklong adventure in Enamel Froggieland. No easy task when you have two little ones hanging around and a household to maintain. Don’t get me wrong, they are SUPER and SO understanding about my painting schedule, but the Frog will be under the carport, so they will be outside with me all week. Next weekend the girls will be going to stay with Gramma & Grampa W. so I can put all the final touches on Toronto and get him ready to go.

Off to paint!

Have a great weekend all, don’t forget to stop back & see my finished paintings!
xoxoxo

I’m such an overachiever. 😉

I thought I could finish 4 paintings today?! What was I thinkin’? I spent all day on this sweetiepie. I’ll be painting all weekend, and then Toronto Frog arrives Monday and I have to have him finished by next Saturday. So, what I don’t get finished this weekend has to wait until after the 28th.

There’s still a possibility of some modifications on her, I will know after the weekend. Here she is!

Has anyone seen today? I missed it. 🙁

The morning flew by with my morning 2 mile walk, some urgent Toronto Frog business, talking to Mark, getting disconnected, reconnecting, getting disconnected (getting the picture?), then ordering Toronto Frog supplies, running errands, home, lunch, more Toronto Frog business, cleaning out the pool, letting the girls enjoy it for almost 2 hours, dinner, PAINTING, bedtime, more of the Mark DNR (I’m hoping you’ve figured out my acronym so I don’t have to retype all of that), and now here I am.

Phew! I tried to reply to all my email today but I don’t think I’m going to finish. So for everyone waiting on me, I will reply soon! Tomorrow I will be painting ALL DAY LONG. Until the last brushstroke on all of these loverlies has been applied.

For now, here are Honey’s sweet eyes. 🙂

Here’s the progress on Honey. I am scooting off to the studio now!!!

I painted late lastnight and finished blocking in the colors for Rocky & Simba. There’s still a lot of refinement to do, the paint has to dry for a day or two before I can start the next layer. 🙂

Now today I’ll start working on Honey (sweet lil Yorkie), and if time permits I will work a little more on Dom’s portrait.

Have a great Wednesday everyone!!!
xoxo!

This is Honey, she’s a Yorkie. In case you’re wondering why the background isn’t already painted, it’s because she’ll be painted in india inks and those are applied in layers all in the same session. So I’ll actually be erasing as much of this sketch as possible, leaving just a very faint line to work from.

I did also paint on Rocky & Simba’s portraits today, but I want to get a little further along before I post another progress pic. I will probably do that later tonight or tomorrow! UPDATE: this is my favorite part, seeing the eyes come alive on the painting! They’re not done yet, but I just love this part so I had to share. 😀

Back to the easel I go!
xoxoxo

Progress on Dom: He’s sketched onto the canvas now and I’ll start painting him either this afternoon or tomorrow morning! Isn’t he a stud??? (Yes this is the pet portrait contest winner!) UPDATE ON DOM 5:42PM CST: Dom has been blocked in with base colors now, he’ll dry for a day or two and then I can move on to the next layer. 🙂

Cat portrait progress: still sketched, I think I’m going to go ahead and work on them in a little bit.

Toronto frog progress: sent the downpayment for the frog fabrication today, they will probably start fabricating on Wednesday or Thursday of this week and it should arrive end of next week! 😀

I spent the morning cleaning up and doing some paperwork, sent Squirrely III off to his new home, ordered contacts, all kinds of fun stuff! The girls have been playing and making tissue paper flowers all afternoon, I’ll have to put them in a vase and get pics for you guys!

Happy Monday everyone!
xoxo