Sitting Pretty Green & Sitting Pretty Orange (2.5×3.5) Watercolor on 90# Canson More small paintings. These are color studies for a larger painting. Both have Paynes gray underpainting. The underpainting on the orange dragon seemed terribly dark when I started, but I think it turned out okay.
Cheap robopet wind-up toy: $3.48 on clearance Time spent watching two cats stalk, swat, and poke the cheap robopet wind-up toy: Priceless. (Okay. Now I definitely need the Roboreptile…)
Another New Year’s Eve, another year gone. All in all, I’m not doing so bad. I’ve got a sweetie. I’ve got cats. I’ve got friends. I’ve got a job. Not bad. Not bad at all. I really should eat more vegetables in 2007, and I really should exercise more. I should cut back on shopping for sport and spend more time decluttering my life and making more art. And I should make more of an…
Party Lizard (top) and Party Dragon (bottom), 12/30/2006, 2.5″ x 3.5″ (ACEO), watercolor on 90# Canson These two party boys are helping me with an experiment in shading. On top, I used multiple glazes of a single color (sap green) to simulate shadows. On the bottom, I used an underpainting of diox purple to create shadows under the sap green. Notes for later: I think I prefer the richer darks the…
Today I started a new blog for my art. I’m not committing to anything crazy, like those “a painting a day” folks do, but I hope to post something new there at least once a week. My next big art goal is to have a fabulous new display ready for NASFIC in August 2007, and new prints for my artist alley table there. To make that happen, I have to start now and work at…
