I had to have a few things to work on since my SWAP painting is being done by pouring paint and misketing value by value so it's slow going. I've never poured a painting this small before but it's relatively easy because not much surface to cover with the paint and water mix. Another few layers and I'll have it finished in time for the November 5th mailing.
Wednesday, October 31, 2007
Wednesday, October 31, 2007 - Class Work Tuesday Morning
I had to have a few things to work on since my SWAP painting is being done by pouring paint and misketing value by value so it's slow going. I've never poured a painting this small before but it's relatively easy because not much surface to cover with the paint and water mix. Another few layers and I'll have it finished in time for the November 5th mailing.
Monday, October 29, 2007
Monday, October 29, 2007 - Back to Painting
The water was flowing in a wooden trough to the mill at Cade's Cove. The leaves were covering the ground all over.
Sunday, October 28, 2007
Sunday, October 28, 2007 - More Smokies Photos
But now it's back to the real world...BettyBlue needs a bath and a vacuum (that's her above) and I have a painting to do for my SWAP partner.
Saturday, October 27, 2007
Saturday, October 27, 2007 - Smokies Photos
Wednesday, October 24, 2007
Wednesday, October 24, 2007 - Smokies
Tuesday, October 23, 2007
Tuesday, October 23, 2007 - Getting Ready
If Blogger was working, I'd upload some photos from Jerry of fall scenes - but it won't let me :( Bad Blogger!!
Question: Does anyone know why, after you post a photo/painting/picture, you can sometimes click on it and it enlarges and other times you cannot? I upload all my photos/paintings the same way and same size and some you click on and it enlarges them and other times it just sits there like a knot on a log. Just wondering...if anyone knows...
Monday, October 22, 2007
Monday, October 22, 2007 - Figure Drawings #3
I did the first with graphite pencils and the second with pastel pencils, using the yellow first to get the body shape and then adding the blue to shade in places. She looks a bit like a mermaid without the tail!
Too tired to do anything else today unless it's a quick sketch while vegging on the sofa.
Sunday, October 21, 2007
Sunday, October 21, 2007 - Wire Sculpture Again
Saturday, October 20, 2007
Saturday, October 20, 2007 - Ink on Phone Book
Friday, October 19, 2007
Friday, October 19, 2007 - Marion's Birthday, Finished Cactus & Started Another Bloody Castle
And I started another small castle painting - I just was not happy with the other one. Maybe this one will look better to me...
Thursday, October 18, 2007
Thursday, October 18, 2007 - What Do You Think?
Wednesday, October 17, 2007
Wednesday, October 17, 1007 - Gina's Cactus (WatercolorWorkshop October Project)
to see some of her great work.
So now all I have to do is do this beautiful photo justice with my watercolor painting :) Here's what I have to start. I need more greens on the cactus flats (whatever you call those) and darken the background in the left and maybe it will be done. Don't want to do much else to the flowers or they'll be overworked but the greens need more work.
Tuesday, October 16, 2007
Tuesday, October 16, 2007 - Class Work + Dragonfly Again
And I worked a bit more on Jerry's dragonfly so you can see the body position and shape better and took the background back to a paler color so you can see the dragonfly. I think this works better.
Now have lots of jobs to do around the house and errands to run today...so catch you tomorrow!
Monday, October 15, 2007
Monday, October 15, 2007 - Cassie's Red Hat Again
Then I took that printout with me to the art room and tried to get it to look that way in the painting. Unfortunately, I overworked it too much. So I thought about the demo and talk Judy Anderson gave to our watercolor society about saving our "dogs" and got out some ink and thought about where I could pump up the volume.
Sunday, October 14, 2007
Sunday, October 14, 2007 - Sandy Maudlin Blog + Jerry's Dragonfly
Saturday, October 13, 2007
Saturday, October 13, 2007 - Open Figure Session
Wednesday, October 10, 2007
Wednesday, October 10, 2007 - Portrait Start Tuesday Morning
Monday, October 8, 2007
Monday, October 8, 2007 - Jerry's Dragonfly Stage 2
Sunday, October 7, 2007
Sunday, October 7, 2007 - Figure Drawing x 2
We did just a few gesture drawings to warm up this time and the class is small and has a nice feeling to it even though I only knew 1 other person (who also came over from the Tuesday night session).
Saturday, October 6, 2007
Saturday, October 6, 2007 - Another Dragonfly
Also, we started another 10-week session of the Open Figure Drawing through Manifest Gallery early this morning (10a - 12p). I switched from Tuesday nights to Saturday mornings. I think I'll be less tired and will enjoy going over during the daylight hours, too. It's a small group - about 7 or 8 of us - so join us if you want to work from live models (which really trains your eye to see shapes in the human figure).
Don't forget, if you're in the Greater Cincinnati area, to go over to the Second Look Saturday open house at Essex Studios - our open figure drawings are there, too. Stop by sometime between 6:00 and 11:00 this evening to see some great work on the walls!
Friday, October 5, 2007
Friday, October 5, 2007 - Three More
Reworked Susan's Dragonfly painting, too, darkening here and there to bring out some details. Done.