Monday, April 4, 2011

A Midsummer Night's Dream

After a long month of struggling to get painting, I've finally finished a piece!. I suppose every artist goes through a phase where no matter how hard you try you just can't paint, think of an idea and just struggle getting a piece done. I actually hope I'm over it now and you will all see much more paintings in the future:).

So here it is, my new piece: A Midsummer Night's Dream!
11X17 Watercolour and some white gouache for highlights.
Some up close shots

So I decided to take some W.I.P shots, just to show you all how I get to one spot to another, personally, I love looking at other artists w.i.p, everyone works differently and it's just fun to see.

Pencil sketch on Arches watercolour board. It was my first time working on watercolour board, I really liked it, not good for doing sketches on first though, I don't think the paper holds too well.
Sorry for the lousy picture, I had to darken these as the sketches are very light when I do them.
My messy table and my first splash of paint.

I decided to work my way around the outside first then working in, the last to be worked on would be the people, since they are my favorite to paint.
again, my messy table, I just finished the tree trunk here. My favorite mug is in this shot...it's for camping but I use it all the time, keeps my tea nice and hot for hours(which is great because I always forget about my tea until I'm done painting), I love it!
just a closer shot and I painted the bushes at the bottom of the painting. This is where I stopped taking pictures 'cause really, I just wanted this done....love it but I was ready to work on something else.
This is getting used for the poster in this years Enchanted Ground Festival:) you can find out more info on the festival here: www.faeryfest.com I'm looking forward to this years festival! I know it's going to be amazing and I miss doing festivals and art shows!! the season is ready to begin and I can't wait:)

Wednesday, March 30, 2011

Sketch Fest March:)

I only managed to finish 2 sketches for March's Sketch Fest but I thought that was amazing since all my time has gone to finishing the poster for Enchanted ground:).

Vine Maiden-1 hour,pencil and white coloured pencil


In my pocket-Silverpoint



Tuesday, February 15, 2011

New ACEO: Lady Of the Forest

Lady of the Forest
2 1/2 X 3 1/2
Watercolour, Ink and acrylic
To give you an idea of how small and ACEO(Art,Card,Edition,Original) is.




Friday, February 11, 2011

Finally:)

I have this wee obsession with paint boxes...
I finally got around to filling this one with my favorite paints(Daniel Smith, Winsor and Newton and one I only have a couple of colours of, M Graham) I made a fun colour chart letting me know what colours are staining and graining and so on...made me feel good, I love seeing all these colours!!
I have a WN white gouach in there for some final touches to my work but no balck paint since I love making my own:). No Schmincke paints in this one, I'll keep those seperate since they are my all time favorite paints. However I can't wait to use this paint box and make a wonderful colourful mess with it!

Monday, February 7, 2011

Over the bridge and into the woods...

Every once in the while, artists need references they can't get or find...what do you do? make your own:).
I just happen to be lucky enough to live in an enchanted forest! so into costume and out I went to get some photos.
Over the bridge and into the forest I go...

What a beautiful entrance!

posing is probably the hardest thing to do!!
Sometimes it's hard to take it seriously!



Ha ha! I'm not posing here, I was seriously cold!! turned out okay though:)

It ended up being really fun! this was my first attempt to do my own reference photos, besides just looking at the mirror to get face expressions right. It was a bit cold...okay REALLY cold but amazingly beautiful out there! I'd do it again, maybe in the summer though and get some friends to pose for me as well:).
I'm excited to see what I can do with these!!

Friday, February 4, 2011

Sketching Fun

All done for the January Sketch Fest:
Freyja? maybe...I think thats the route this one is taking, I'm excited to see how this one will turn out:)




Just a Fun ACEO, playing with lines, not taking it too seriously:)

Friday, January 14, 2011

Adrift-Work in progress

A little peek of the line art for Adrift



A close up


Based on a dream I had, I usually have dreams of me sailing through the sky and seas on a Klompen, ever since I was a kid...it used to relax me. I'd go exploring in all these different lands...
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