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!)

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

Fourth entry for today, so if you’re here for the first time today, you have some catching up to do!

Here’s Angel’s second work in progress, her full underpainting, pretty close to accurate background color (on my monitor).

You may or may not remember that I had been tossing around a design idea last summer for a Catfish project that the City of Rock Island is pulling together this year. I spoke with my old boss about the possibility of sponsoring me for the project, but the project was kindof put on hold for a while, and although I discussed my design with the project coordinator, I never formalized it with a sketch.

Welp, I got a call this morning from the project coordinator, and I’ve got two sponsors (going by the design idea) for a Catfish. So over the next month & a half (they are set to go on display sometime in May), I will be adding another huge project to my schedule, I’ll be calling him “Fisherman Swallowed Whole”. That’s as much of the design idea that you’re going to get right now, and here’s the statue:

You can click on him to see his specs, he’s 5 feet tall and 2 feet wide.

They will go on display throughout the city in May, and be auctioned off to the highest bidder mid-August. It will all happen similarly to the Frogs-A-Hoppin’ project for the City of East Moline, so of course I am hoping that my Catfish also brings in the highest dollar amount for the event. My Mosaic was top frog bringing in $4100 which was disbursed to the non-for-proft of the highest bidders choice!

Fun!! I will of course share the work in progress as I paint this one, and update with more information, links & such as they become available.

Angel is so girlie, and so PINK! Yes the digital knocks your eyeballs out, it’s really much more vivid in person.
Woohoo! (Karen, you do like pink, right?)

Dixie’s underpainting:

Just finished Ashley’s portrait, here’s her digital pic. I’ll scan her tomorrow!