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( blah blah art blah oil paints blah yadda blah blah... )

Here's where I left off yesterday.



Today I have my oil paints, so I'll be doing a lot of softening and blending, and will finish the animals.

Missing y'all.  I should be home a lot earlier tonight, though.  

I miss my f-list when I can't do my reading along with my morning coffee.  Because I have to, you know, work.  I am ever so thankful to have work, though.

Here's approximately where I left off yesterday evening.  Day one out of (I estimate) four.  I've been taking photos of every stage of this, so there will be more tonight when I finally get home.



The painting's about 7' square.  There's an annoying hanging lamp that makes it impossible for me to get a picture looking straight at the wall; I have to get off to the side to get the lamp out of the way.

Once I'm done here today, I have to go get ready for drawing class.  Y'all won't see me again until about 10 Central time tonight.  Gonna be a long, long day.

This will be about 6.5' wide by 7' high.  With rounded, fading-out edges because of the way the architecture works in this room.

I've emailed it off and await a response.  Need to work up an official proposal with the price, which I did already quote, but in writing is good.

So I just finished a nice, detailed scale drawing for this week's job.  Now I need to:

( blah blah artists are actually very boring. )

Cocoa Wants a Cookie, 6 x 8" pastel on paper



Mystery Tree, Linden Flowers, mixed media, about 6 x 7".  This is the one that's blooming and smells soooo nice.

If anyone can identify it I'll change the title. :-)

Found it myself!  The trees in question are Littleleaf Lindens. 

... and the Greyhounds have been fed and so have I, which I suppose is a decent start to the day, although I find myself wanting to collapse back into bed.

Won't do it, though.  Got too much Stuff to Do today, including finding a box of the appropriate size to send housepiglet's Daffodils on their way safely overseas.  This will likely require a run to Office Depot.

Right now: coffee coffee coffee.

And I keep thinking it's Saturday today.  And that's about as interesting as I seem capable of being right now.

*sips more java*

Coffeehouse Bluebells, mixed media on paper, 10.5 x 6"

( more under the cut )

This isn't the drawing for which I traded lunch on Wednesday.  It's a drawing I made today in the same notebook, while having a lunch I traded for a different drawing.  :-)

The pages are 3.5 x 5.5".  I just put the whole thing on the scanner.



4 Seasons Flowers, ballpoint.

It rained early this morning, woke me up (all three windows were open up here because of the heat, so I hadn't been sleeping well to begin with).  That was around 3.  It was not a very restful night.

( Blather and the finished Crow, beneath the cut. )

Crow, 5 x 7" oil on canvas board. 

Below, my source photo, which I took just up the street from here.

 

Left: Eden Prairie Flower, 6 x 8" mixed media on paper.

Right: Eden Prairie Flower 2, 5 x 7" mixed media on paper.

I began these while waiting for the painting contractor to show up in the morning so we could start working.  Finished them at home.  The second one is my favorite.

Hi y'all.

( class, a list of stuff, blah blah blah )

I went to lunch and in my purse I had, among other items, my Moleskine notebook -- which is about the size of a standard index card -- and a ballpoint pen.
( I had no idea those two items would come in so handy. )

... soon as my ride gets here.  Which should have been about 12 minutes ago, but it actually makes me happy that I'm not the only one who tends to run on Artist Time.

Lunch with a group from TOSCA; should be a lot of fun.

Tonight I have drawing class.  Y'all probably won't see me until about 10 (Central Standard, not Artist, Time).

 

5 x 7" Snow Emergency Drawing.  It is amazing, truly amazing, how many different colors one must use to paint a black-coated animal.

ETA: Changed background and re-photographed.  Jades, I'm going to have to ask you to trust me here; there's a "rough" texture in the photos that isn't isn't actually there.  My camera seems to separate out some of the colors and greatly intensify/brighten them, making the texture look very different than it appears in reality.  The subtlety gets really lost, and it's a problem I didn't have to nearly this extent with Chia; it seems to be much worse because Oscar is black.  I haven't found a way to correct for this in the photos, but I can tell you that Oscar's coat looks much smoother and softer in the actual drawing.

So, I check Craigslist a lot to see if there's any work I can pick up.  This morning I found this listing, soliciting donations for a charity auction:

FREE ADVERTISING FOR LOCAL ARTISTS!!! it read.  They'll put your name on their website and in print.  Yay!  Also, you get on the guest list for the event, which is actually pretty nice, but the "free advertising" bit just ...

( ... and my head may have exploded a little. Don't click the cut if you don't want to get any on you. )

Chia the Cat, Mark II.  6.5 x 8.5", pastel on paper.

( Cut for minor rambling )

I went and did a "live drawing demo" at the Art Center this morning.  It was a perfect excuse to pay $7 for a bouquet of flowers from a vendor there.



Flowers from the Market, 11 x 14" mixed media on paper.

It will be for sale but I haven't settled on a price yet.  About ... 3 and a half hours' work.