Here’s where I’m stopping for the day, I should be able to finish them up tomorrow!
Life, Love, and Critters – of course!
Tater Couple WIP #3
June
3
2005
The Mister is done, well – dang close to done. I’m still painting on cam if you want to watch me paint the wifey!
Tater Couple WIP #2
June
2
2005
Here’s the second work in progress on our lovely Tater Couple. This is sortof an underpainting, it’ll really only need the lightest lights when I finish them. So basically, what’s finished is almost in its final state.
Little Green Monsters are Cute!
June
2
2005
I have to admit, I love it when my hubby gets a lil’ jealous. hehe. He has been so patiently waiting for some strange guy (who either can’t read or knows he’s going to be blog fodder) to IM me. He jumped on my puter as soon as he heard the chime this morning. Awwww. Afterward, I looked at the guys profile, and dagnabbit, he’s cute! Okay it’s probably not even him, but still. A good looking schmuck of the day. Enjoy.
😆
iaan_spencer: hey
iaan_spencer: so nice pic ofu
iaan_spencer: wanna chat
iaan_spencer: this is ian
iaan_spencer: 35/m/indianapolis
intricateartist : It is a very nice picture of her isn’t it. I really really like it, she is very talented and beautiful…one of the many reasons I married her!!!!
iaan_spencer: lol
John & Ella Portrait WIP #1
June
2
2005
I’ll be working on John & Ella’s portrait next week, so I’ve been prepping their portrait to get it ready to start. This one will be done in the same medium as Doc Shnurman’s portrait, but this time I’ll be using a different ground. I picked up Wallis Sanded pastel paper (the museum grade), which only comes in white. I mixed a flesh/peach tone using watercolors and acrylics and did a two layer wash over the sheet (stretching and all that jazz while it dried). The digital pic is over-saturated with red, it’s a little more pale in person than what you see here.
I did finally finish up that custom illustration (which just plain rocks, I think!), and over the last couple of 8-10 hour days sitting here in front of the computer on my tablet have resulted in my hand becoming “the claw”. I think I’ll see if I can find a more comfortable stylus for my tablet! I’ve been hitting the couch elevating my arm pretty early the last couple of days because of it. Still a little sore, but a day off from the tablet will cure it! I can’t show you the final graphic until it’s been incorporated into the design, though, so you’ll just have to be patient. 😉
Today I’ll be painting the Tater couple, and I’ll update my cam status when I get started!
Sammy Davis Jr. Squirrel
May
30
2005
Our squirrels were just hamming it up yesterday, this one looks like he’s doing a Sammy Davis Jr. imitation doesn’t he?
We don’t have any plans for today, how about you? I’ve already toned the paper for my next portrait, which is going to be a chalk/pastel painting (they’re actually Yarka crayons, although I have no idea why they’ve called them crayons), I’ll post a work in progress on that when I have my subjects sketched.
The Tater background isn’t dry enough for me to work on yet today, so I’ll be working on my custom blog artwork piece. That one has progressed from a pencil sketch to a clean line drawing and is now becoming a very cool and vivid graphic illustration. It’ll be neat to see it go live within the new blog design for this client! Once my main gallery layout is revised (again), I’ll add a gallery specifically for screen shots of where my E.Webscapes client work is located. That will be a fun addition to my portfolio I think!
It’s a Glob, It’s a Blob…
May
29
2005
It’s a TATER COUPLE!
This is another commission I’ve begun. What? What is that you say? NOT a pet portrait? What is going on?! Well. It’s all about potatoes, don’t you know. Even my pet portraits start out as spuds. Really. No, not really.
All I can say is that you know you have the funnest (I made that up) job in the planet when you get to paint Taterheads.
I love my life, I love my paint, and I love my Wacom tablet. Amen. Oh, yea, and my husband and kids, too. Amen.
Baby Chirps!
May
29
2005
We’ve been hearing baby chirps coming from one of our sparrow nests, and they’re finally big enough to peek their heads up! Awww, aren’t they sweet lil babies?!
The weather here is not being very nice this weekend, it’s chilly and windy, and today it’s going to rain. Bah. It’s supposed to get up into the 80’s by the end of the week, I am so looking forward to that! I’d much rather sweat than freeze. I’m like a puppy, my fingers, toes and nose all freeze when it’s chilly out. Woof.
I’m gonna be busy today, working on my next painting, finishing up my custom-blog-artwork order, and prepping my next portrait. I hope you guys are having better weather than I am!
Taba’s Mousie : Final Scan & Detail
May
28
2005
