New Acrylic Painting in Progress!

Here's the latest batch of paintings I'm working on, with a deep purple/blue background. You can see from the top painting basically how I work them, slathering on thick bits of paint in several different colors, then pouncing it all over with a wadded paper towel until I get a nice flow to the colors. I do more than one at a time, since I'm such a cheapskate and hate to waste paint! The bottom painting shows the background after a thin coat of glaze mixed with the barest hint of white to mute it a bit. With this particular canvas I then took a couple different leaves with good strong veins from my backyard (I think I used wisteria and rose leaves here), painted the backs with the white glaze and then pressed them in a framing pattern up and over one side. I'm hoping to use my swirly twirly dress sketch from a few posts back for at least one of these!

Sweet Dreams - New Painting!

Here's the other new watercolor I promised, called "Sweet Dreams". I used to cuddle like this with my little one in the 'baby days', and it was the best feeling in the world. :)

First Flight - Completed Watercolor!

I finally managed to get to my sketch of First Flight, and finished her in one night! I had a ton of fun with this little girl. I especially loved to work on her much loved and quite stained little flight companion.
Also, you can see I have another watercolor I've been working on, which I'll show you very soon. So excited to be working again! And so pleased to have this new little set-up to paint on. My grandmother gave me her old sewing table, which I've turned into quite a nice little painting table and set up right in front of our windows. A wonderfully sunny spot to paint! When the wisteria was in bloom last month it was quite magical. :)

New Sketch 5-13-09

I saw an incredible pic of a twirling gown while surfing online and was so entranced I just had to sketch it! I did a very rough sketch, changing it up in several ways as I did, and this is what I came up with. I can't wait to paint it! I think I might even try to work this in acrylics on canvas I'm so smitten with it. :)

Green Lady

Every now and then I just want to quickly and without thinking smear paint all over a canvas and see what emerges. This is the latest result of one of my "smear campaigns". A silent green lady appeared before my very eyes, patiently waiting in the calm pigment.
You can also see a hint of our floor. We recently tore up our sad looking carpet to expose a previously painted and not at all pretty wood floor underneath. We believe it's original from when the house was built in 1915 or so. Sooooo, we decided to paint it this sweet green, and I love it! Can't wait to get down there with brushes and palette to add my own little flourishes in hidden places.

IF 5/8/09 - Parade

Work in Progress - 4-30-09

Sorry for the poor picture! I lost the use of my favorite scanner, so I'm kind of making due now with what I have.
Here's the latest sketch I'll be (finally!) turning into a watercolor painting, called "First Flight". It was inspired by the lovely vacation that I just had and remembering my child's very first flight. Hopefully I'll be able to put brush to paper very soon!

New Sketch! 4-27-09

Another little ballpoint pen sketch, this time a little more fanciful.
I took some time out in the last couple of weeks, and even snuck in a little vacation with my family to Disneyland. We had such fun! Perhaps that's where this idea was inspired from...I love Fantasyland and the Alice in Wonderland ride!

***SPRING FLING SALE!!!***

I'm having a very exciting SPRING FLING SALE in my Etsy shop right now! Most items have been marked down almost 60%!!! This is my fun little version of spring cleaning, a sort of "out with the old, in with the new".
Be sure to stop by and check out the incredible deals on original artwork I'm offering!!! Check out the link to my Etsy shop on the right hand side of your screen, and happy shopping!

Happy Easter!

A bit of a character study, in ink again, and in honor of wonderful Easter!