More of My Girls...

In Saturday's post I mentioned adding Adele's lyrics to my painting, well, I have and did you know that the song Make You Feel My Love was written by Bob Dylan...

Emerald with Adele lyrics...

Argh, where her nose and forehead meet is too low and she has too much forehead....

Started a new one today, but there was too much graphite on the paper....learn from my mistakes.... :D

Topaz - I'm still thinking about the background.

And another - my plans for today fell through and since I spent yesterday doing 5 loads of washing and 2 lots of ironing whilst cleaning the house - this left me some time to paint today...

She's drying at the moment (glue and texture paste) and I will work on her tomorrow if the day of olive picking is ruined by rain...

Emerald

Meet my latest girl named Emerald.....

Emerald, Mixed Media, 30cm x 40cm

I was going to create a girl with these scrapbooking papers of maps in the background and the words from the  Adele song 'Make You Feel My Love' written in the hair in black pen/paint so I may have to create another girl and leave the hair until after the background is finished.

"I could make you happy
Make your dreams come true
Nothing that I wouldn't do
Go to the ends
Of the Earth for you
To make you feel my love"

Now I have just left her as she is in the first photo and have decided to think about it for a few hours/days...

Meet Eliza Blue and Rose

When she was blue, she dreamed of happiness and love in the arms of her soulmate.

Eliza Blue, Mixed Media,  30cm x 40cm/ 12" x 16"

My 20 year old son suggested she have blue hair, he was just teasing me at the time and not serious at all - won't he be surprised!!! My husband says she can't have blue, I replied that many of my arty friends who like to draw girls often give them different coloured hair.

So the challenge is on - different coloured hair and different styles of hair and I'll be using a smaller colour palette, colour themes, crazy hair and song lyrics too.  My girls need words but the words are just not coming to me - Eliza Blue's background doesn't really allow for words as it's too busy and she has words from scrapbooking paper showing through - which is where I got the first sentence from.

Here's my previous girl aka Girl2 but now known as Rose - she has been finished off and framed though her background does allow for more stamping or words:

Rose, Mixed Media,  30cm x 40cm/ 12" x 16"

Now I just need to decide on a name for my other girl... Does she look like a Tara???

I will create a few more girls this month....

Today I handed over my 30 canvases for the 30x30x30 Challenge organisers to store until the exhibition in mid September.  :D

Shell's Sunday Snippets

Joining in with {tinniegirl} for  {sunday snippets}: a collection of photos from your week.  No need for words.  Let the pictures tell your story.

New Girl and a New Month.

Earlier this week I started a new girl, I need to work on her hair now that it is dry and try to define it more from her dress.  A few months ago I had planned to spend May catching up on Life Book 2012 and  working on my faces.  Ayala is hosting a 29 Faces in the month of May and I recommend that you check it out if you are into faces or portraits as some very talented artists are involved.

Did you see the other girl I was working on prior to the one above??  Check out this blog post...

If you are into drawing/painting flowers then head over to Lori Moon's blog and check out her May Flower Challenge.  Rose from my garden...

Today I did some finishing touches to my 30 canvases for the 30x30x30 Challenge:

Before:

I'm not sure what the other artist are doing to the backs of their canvases but it was suggested that we put some wire on them and I like to add the brown artist's tape to neaten up the backs too.


Hope you have a great weekend and create some art, it's going to be raining here in Perth for the next week so that means plenty of time to paint...I hope....  :D

Day 30 - 30x30x30 Challenge

"Paintbrushes down, step away from your easels!"

On Australian television there are many cooking competitions and there words are: "Tools down, step away from your bench", so today ends the painting section of the 30x30x30 Challenge.  I have varnished with liquid gloss my canvases and will give them a spray varnish later today whilst the sun shines.  All my paintings were created with artist quality paints such as Matisse, Atelier and Golden Fluid Acrylics which come from the USA.  The majority of paintings are acrylic but some are mixed media, some are my layered, stain glass window style and a couple are my girlies whilst others are mixed media and some are experiments but they were all great fun to create.

The organisers have asked the artists not to preview any finished paintings before the big night in September so you will have to wait for my blog post in late September to see all my creations.  But here is a sneak preview of part of a set I call Citrus Sunburst:

So if you like this one you will have to buy the whole set!!!  ;)


What's next for me?  I'll blog again later today about the exciting month of May as our power is about to go out so new power poles can go up in a nearby street.