Saturday's Six Thoughts

1. I played with her face - for better or for worse....

2. I finished prepping my painting for the local art's festival - painting goes in on Monday and Opening Night is Friday.  Shhh don't tell anyone but I don't like it and I think the reason is that I painted it for the arts festival and toned it down a little as I don't think they would approve/accept my regular stuff.  Other artists doing modern layered paintings have not been accepted by the art community because their work was not serious enough. pft pft pft such garbage - who says a painting has to be of a serious nature - I want people to buy my paintings, hang them and look at them and get some enjoyment from them - a smile on their face....  I was reading about this in the newspaper during the week....  Will show you my painting on Friday...

3.  My DH aka Darling Husband helped me tidy my 'studio' aka the smallest room in the house or the junk room - now I can take more than 2 two steps and turn around and come out again.

4.  Beautiful, sunny day here in Perth but not warm enough for swimming.

5.  Did I tell you that my son got his driver's license during the week - now he has to log up 25 hours over the next 6 months on L Plates still and with another experienced driver in the car.

6.  Going out to dinner tonight with my brother and sister-in-law so I must toodle-pop and go get ready - my hair needs time to dry and then I'm going to straighten it - Friday I get it coloured, cut and straightened before the art festival opening night.

Have a great weekend peeps, catch ya tomorrow, only two days of Blogtoberfest left....

More Evolution of Heart Girl

I did a little more work on 'She Wears Her Heart on Her Sleeve' aka Heart Girl....

Here's the process...

Here's a close-up...

Here's a daggy pic of me painting...

Daggy, for my American friends, is of Australian origin.
adj. not stylish, out of fashion, not trendy, not cool, untidy, unclean, not neat.
v. to have no style.

I love seeing the process of other people's work/paintings, so if you've blogged about yours then let me know.

Uh Oh!!!

Uh oh, now what?

Spag Bog for dinner....

Sunset 25th October 2011

Wordless Wednesday - playing along with Tina Chicky.

Painting Evolution of Heart Girl

'She Wears Her Heart on Her Sleeve' began when this large 30" x 30" canvas was given to me by my BF and AB (best friend and art buddy) Sandra after my dog died as she knows how important art as therapy can be.

I began with my regular layers then when it came to stamping I just used the one stamp - a heart made out of kitchen sponge - to stamp all over in a pattern onto the canvas.

Then I sketched out one of the large faces I had been learning at Tam's Fabulous Faces at Willowing.  This is the first large face I have ever painted  - much easier than some of the small faces I've painted - and I think I've done ok, though still lots to learn and lots of practice.  I just want to mention that Tam uses watersoluble crayons and white acrylic paint to paint her faces on paper and this is all acrylic paint on canvas so there was some guess work as to how to make it look right.  One of the hardest things is blending in the paint on the face, I did use retarder to slow the drying process but when you come back the next day to add  it's hard not to over paint it too much and muck it up.

The hair - yes, I wanted large hair and would love to do another portrait, front facing, with curly blonde hair and stars in the background....hmmm Marilyn Monroe comes to mind.  I painted the hair by blocking in the darkest colour first, then gradually adding lighter colours and then some highlights with some bling colours - dark umber, burnt sienna, red ochre, copper and gold.

I feel that there is too much space to the right of her face and when I can think of what to paint there then I will, maybe flowers....

 

Different cropped versions of her...

I will upload her to redbubble where prints and cards of her will be available.

Paintings in Progress

Here are the paintings I'm working on at the moment.  I have found lately that I have ideas for paintings and then see other artists work which are my ideas....oh well, at least my technique is my technique and this makes my paintings different to others....

30" x 30" canvas - the base is now ready for a girly - She Wears Her Heart on Her Sleeve

Not too sure what to call this canvas - have thought of a few titles such as 'Not Drinking Alone' - a few more touch up layers to go...

Create Something Wild & Wonderful & Amazing

I did a little art therapy today - collage, sketching and 'painting'.

I started collaging the box I bought for Life book 2012 with some left over scraps of scrapbooking paper.  I found some with great words on them.

Inspire.  Create something wild & wonderful & amazing.

So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then seem improbable and then, when we summon the will, they soon seem inevitable. - Christopher Reeve

I've also started the Fabulous Faces with the profile faces instead of facing portrait in week 1.  They look a lot like Tam's so I'll have to practice a little more and stylise her a bit more.

My BF and art buddy, Sandra, gave me a canvas as I haven't been able to get any and I put the first layer onto it today....

Any ideas of what I should do with this canvas???  Oh you're not thinking what I'm thinking are you?  A face???   Noooo...this canvas is big 30" x 30" or 76cm x 76cm.... we'll see....  ;)