Christmas is over, the presents have been unwrapped and the enormous amounts of food have been eaten (well, we tried to eat it all, piggies that we are! :) I got artist things: a block of Fabriano extra white Artistico paper, Virtual Poser 3 (shows models on your computer screen you can draw, paint, or just print out for reference), and a Daniel Smith gift certificate - so I'm ready to rock and roll!!!
Back to the gym for me today with a brand new pedometer - counting those steps - and brand new shoes. Jerry got a ZenStonePlus (mp3 player) and we oldtimers finally figured out how to get it to work and downloaded some music from cds last night so he's ready for the treadmill. I figure between us, we need to work off about 5,000 calories from the 24th and 25th (and I didn't even have the chicken wings or the persimmon pudding with real whipped cream).
I finished the madrone tree today. I really needed a warm yellow for that central part that is smooth, where the bark pulls away and shows the red underneath the "peels" but didn't have one so here it is. I put the Periwinkle in the background as a thin, pale wash.
And I can't finish one without choosing the next 3 colors which are:
Ultramarine Violet
Indigo
Tigers Eye Genuine
2 comments:
Nice moody tree bark.
Persimmon pudding with real whipped cream - sounds really good!
Enjoy your DS certificate (although I suspect you have all their colors ;-)
Thanks, Nava. It just needs a touch of warm yellow to make it more realistic but those are the 3-color challenge drawbacks :)
Oh, I quit buying every new color from DS a couple of year's ago so I know they've come out with another 100 or so since then :) hee-hee I stick now with my usual subjects of a warm and cool yellow, a warm and cool red, a warm and cool blue, and some odd colors that make good darks or some good granulating colors.
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