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Illustrations : A Glimpse

May

2006

I normally don’t share my doodley sketches, but got to playing with small sections of the three I’m working on and thought I’d give you a little glimpse of my sketchbook in its own artistic form. This will be the only work in progress of this one that I’ll share, I’ll show them again in their final form. I am also putting together a photoblog/gallery design for an amazing photographer that you’ll get to see and visit soon as well.

I hope your weekend is wrapping up nicely.

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Filed under: Custom Illustrations, Graphics, Blog Designs, Works in Progress

Sunburn On The Job

May

2006

This is the dress.

This is the strapless (keyword: strapless) dress that I’ll be wearing in the very important role of Maid-of-Honor for my dear friend Lisa in her wedding – next month.

This is the sunburn.

The sunburn with straps – bright white straps from my spaghetti strap tank that are going to look really, really stupid with the strapless dress I’ll be wearing – next month.

Send tube tops. Or something. Oh yes, and aloe. Tubs of it.

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This is the flowerbed that once was. Critters adorned this cute little “front floral thingie” as I’ve lovingly referred to it over the past few years, and it was getting old. I was tired of seeing the same thing, and considering we’re looking to put our home on the market, I thought a facelift was in order.

This is the painting that caused the sunburn with the strap lines that will look stupid with the strapless gown. Sortof a Mary Engelbreit sort of feel to it, swirled flowers, vines, leaves, ladybugs & butterflies.

It’s definitely different, and I think it will look nice against the snow in the winter, too. A lil touch of spring all year round is a good thing in the midwest!

* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *Then, to top off this lovely weekend of continued demolition and general household prettifying, I had another funky dream. It’s no wonder I’m a little odd, with dreams like that who wouldn’t be? I’d pay someone to analyze them professionally, I’d even let someone pay me to record my brainwaves while I’m sleeping and study how vivid they are. I wouldn’t want to stop having them though, they’re pretty interesting although very wierd. I mean really, boiled grapefruit? Blech.

* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *How was your weekend? Are you burnt to a crisp, too?

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Filed under: Floral Paintings, Home n' Hearth, Large Scale Projects

Great Blue Heron – WIP #3

May

2006

Painting on the Great Blue Heron today (thanks again, Laura!), as much as I can before contractors start showing up. I wanted to get this progress shot in before the sun bears down and floods the studio.

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Great Blue Heron – WIP #2

April

2006

Finally getting a chance to paint a bit today, here’s a shot of my progress on that lovely Great Blue Heron I’m working on.

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Great Blue Heron – WIP #1

April

2006

This is the new painting I was telling you about, the reference photo was taken by Laura @ Vitamin Sea and (of course I asked) she gave me permission to use her photograph to paint from. I am really anxious to get color down on this guy (painting in oils) – he’s incredible.

This canvas is 18″ x 36″. Mmhmm. That means this Great Blue Heron will be just shy of life sized at around 30″ tall. This will be an amazing piece indeed – thanks Laura!

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Vikingwolf aka Michael

April

2006

Michael Fräse is a dear friend of mine, he’s a mentor and one of my all-time favorite artists . He has motivated me when I felt like giving up, spoken words of wisdom that ring in my ears every time I pick up a brush – every time I consider a new painting. Our mutual admiration has extended to the technological side of our work, and with that we have been working together, alongside E.Webscapes to create a working gallery to display his paintings in an appropriate environment.

If you can imagine, my blogging friends, creating 197+ blog entries in 12 hours or less, you’ll know what my day was like yesterday. Lisa coded up the stylesheets a few months ago, and I’ve been working on the content, plugins, and tweaking the code as needed. My carpel tunnel caused me excruciating pain lastnight, I couldn’t even type an open bracket for code without letting out a gasp in pain. I slept with my wrist brace on lastnight, and it feels better today – although I’ll have to make it a short day on the keyboard to fully recoup.

For now, and I have a lot of work to do yet, please browse over to Michael’s new website. His work is beautiful and inspiring. It should be a couple of days before I post the final screenshot and add him to my completed project list – but I couldn’t wait, worked too hard yesterday to not share what I’ve been working on! You’ll be able to order prints directly from him later this week if you’re interested, too.

Go on! Check out Vikingwolf.com !

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Littles : Final Scan

March

2006

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Joey : Final Scan

March

2006

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Littles : Cat Portrait Complete

March

2006

As promised, I finished Littles today (this is an 8×8 oil painting). I’ll varnish both Littles and Joey over the weekend and scan them to post detail shots. They’ll both be on their way home at the beginning of next week.

(You can view both cat paintings and their paintings as they progressed in the Cat Portrait category.)

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