Tuesday, February 28, 2006
Moving along very slowly on this one. Today, in between shipping art, baking little peepeyed pets, photographing prints, and adding items to my eBay store, I would go in and do a little more work on it. It will take many layers of paint to get this looking the way I want. I did [...]
Sunday, February 26, 2006
Each time I finish a new little peepeyed critter and place it on the table in front of me, I say something nice to it, as if it were my pet or child. I peer into it’s big round eyes and I immediately fall in love. It feels good all over and so I quickly [...]
Sunday, February 26, 2006
I started on the lake landscape. First I went back over the sketch with a light wash, fixing the pencil to the canvas and building up areas of light and dark. I spent a good long while preparing my palette, which for this painting consists of napthol crimson, yallow azo medium, pthalocyanine blue and ultramarine [...]
Saturday, February 25, 2006
I’m almost well again! I even went out today! I dropped off some cards and Peepeyes at a gallery and talked to the wonderful owner about which paintings she would like to hang for the upcoming May Festival of the Arts. Then I went out for a pizza and bought a birthday gift. After [...]
Friday, February 24, 2006
We set up a new fake tree the day after Christmas and my friend Eileen helped make a funky flowered girl with butterfly wings for the topper. We felt happy to be crafting together and silly to be doing the tree thing late. I always wanted the Christmas tree up until after my birthday and [...]
Thursday, February 23, 2006
I am getting over some nasty bug. I had some incredible ideas to write about while I had the fever, but now I can’t remember any of it. Something about art and something somebody said and something I read…oh well, maybe it’ll come back later. So far the day has yielded these little peepeyed [...]
Monday, February 20, 2006
SOLD
I just entered my first eBay art contest. This month’s theme is the self portrait. The winner is tabulated by a count of bids. Looks like a fun monthly event. It certainly pushed me to release a painting I had no previous thought of selling. I took a look at the a couple of [...]
Monday, February 20, 2006
I am working on setting up a blog that is easy to update and has a calm and clean look. My biggest task is always narrowing my focus, perhaps that is why I like to crop down my paintings to fragments of stories. I like the unseen part of the story and I think [...]
a work in progress