Meet Ellie, she’s a Brittany Spaniel that I’ll begin painting today! This one is 12×16 on canvas panel.
I altered the hue and saturation (which is normal when you look at my sketches), pencil on white canvas doesn’t show up very well in pics!
I’ll update again when I start painting, just check the Studio Webcam Status over in the left menu.
After the last brushstroke I felt it, that moment hit like it did when I finished my Anniversary Rose painting.
Then I stood up, put my brush down, stepped back and honest to God started to cry. I love this piece, even I am overwhelmed by it. It’s insanely amazing and rich and my jaw is still hanging open and I’m in the other room.
This is one of those paintings where I say outloud “Thank you, God, for this incredible, incredible gift.” I’ve often felt like the Holy Spirit paints through me, and this one – well. You have to see it. I wish you could all see it in person. By the way, this painting sold after I posted the second work in progress pic back in December. Thank you to my client, who stops in from time to time, you will absolutely love this piece. Buy the track lighting. 🙂
It’s about 1AM, wet paint, glare, my eyes are burning. I will get better pics for you in daylight tomorrow.
UPDATE: Here’s a daylight (it’s cloudy and rainy here today, of course.) pic of this gorgeous viola. Wanna play it? I just painted the sides this morning, so I hung it on the top of my floor easel for it to dry. You can see that this ain’t no teenie piece, it’s 18×24, and chunky gallerywrap canvas to boot. You can kinda see my chair in the background and I left everything where it was so you can get an idea on size. When it’s dry and varnished, I’ll wire it and hang it on the wall and get more pics. I’ll also scan it, and you know how different the scans are from my digital pics! I’m still jittery (in an overly-excited and proud kinda way) over this one.
Remember when I started this painting? Well today I’ll be finishing it! YAYYY!!
I’m going to go ahead and turn the webcam on, and I know that if you’re hanging out here this afternoon that you’re probably not interested in the :ahem: game on today, so why not watch me paint, huh?
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My oh my. I love this kitty’s eyes!! Had to take a close up shot to show you. Wet paint of course, and glare, fooey, but here ya go:
Phew! Ok. Taking a breath.
I just went through my calendar and modified my schedule, adding the sizes & grounds that I have the information on for the next couple of months. Then we ran down to Dick Blick and picked up all of the canvas that I don’t have in stock. They love me down there! Cha-ching! 😛
I’ve got my webcam on and will be finishing up Callie this afternoon. **I am having problems getting the cam image to show up on the page, if you have the same problem let me know k? thanks!
I also went ahead and signed Nicki, Tori, Ten & Emily so those are drying. I decided I didn’t want to scan them until after they’ve been varnished, that way the colors are super duper enhanced!
Ok gotta get to work!
Here’s the digital pic of PossyIII. I’m going to sign everybody else tonight and hope to scan all of my recent paintings tomorrow some time. I’m gonna try to get Callie finished up tonight, too!
Here’s Callie’s underpainting…
I’m working on Possy III’s underpainting now!
Here she is…
I’m going to leave the webcam on, since I’ll be working on Callie’s underpainting tonight. I’ll work on her after 8PM CST if you want to check in then!
Nevermind, I’m gonna paint off cam tonight. 🙂
