August 24, 2009

Yesterday's contribution. Not as prolific as Sunday but I got another one started (had to let the texture application dry and the masking fluid).

As with my photos, I love Parisian street scenes and I took a photo of this common ornament near Pere Lachaise cemetery.

Moving on now to the one I prepared earlier... See it tomorrow.

August 23, 2009

I was quite prolific today and feel quite good about that and trying to forget that I have let things go the last week or so. The weather has been too nice. You might say "Get out and paint in it then" but then all I want to do is flick through a magazine. There have been the house projects and friends coming over and work getting in the way (freelancing a bit).

So, today I had some making up to do but it was a cloudy day and I had a fantastic day out in the country yesterday so back to work (should be doing some real work but that's another story). These are mostly just sketches to get me back into the practice. More involved painting coming soon.

The telephone is inspired by an image on decor8. I did the orange cat from an image and then thought I should be doing one of my own cat, Zoe. The colouring on her face makes it look like a mask. I'm sure there will be more modelling for her in the near future. Haven't quite caught her character yet. The dress was inspired by a photo in Homes and Antiques of a black flapper's dress. I made it less severe in mauves.

Day 20-21 ? - August 11 and 17, 2009

Well, I'm starting to fail here. Even though I had a whole week with no work I didn't manage to keep up with this. Too many things to do around the house, I suppose. I'm even going to include a cake I made as one of my "creations". It was really a joint effort, though - I made the cake, bought the ingredients and whipped up the cream but my husband was artistic with the fruit.

I'm going to have to do two a day from now on to catch up. Only not tonight, there's cake to be eaten!

I'm not entirely happy with my last two paintings anyway. I do have an obsession with clocks (my husband says it is a sign of madness).

Day 18 and 19 - August 8-9, 2009

Well after the window installation there was a lot of clean-up which led to more clean-up and re-arranging and then I was too tired to do anything else but I did have some ideas waiting. So here they are. Both were inspired by images in Homes and Antiques. The first one is a collection of treen and then another chair. Both were adjusted from their original image.