tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-80302735405608707572024-03-12T18:41:06.667-07:00Judy's BlogJudyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05873259691465166943noreply@blogger.comBlogger37125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8030273540560870757.post-75171740134123301992015-11-01T16:45:00.003-08:002015-11-01T16:45:42.205-08:00Finished two more alcohol inksThis first one I worked on a couple of days struggling but then finally finished it to my liking <br />
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This is "Dreamy Forest' on YUPO paper, 9"x5"<br />
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The next one started out as a flower however the inks said, "Nope not today this is what I want to do" so here is my unflower.<br />
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<br />Judyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05873259691465166943noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8030273540560870757.post-5967420729982195502015-10-29T09:50:00.002-07:002015-10-29T09:50:14.606-07:00Another attemptAfter two days I came up with this sky as I see it. Am finally learning sort of how to use these inks and it is fun as it is always a surprise and the inks have a mind of their own how they will mix. I will continue on trying to get expressive landscapes done this week and weekend and then back to trying to do credible blooms. But am having fun and that is the main thing.<br />
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<br />Judyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05873259691465166943noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8030273540560870757.post-70880513082121586092015-10-26T16:58:00.000-07:002015-10-26T16:58:11.765-07:00BACK TO PAINTING FINALLYIt has been a couple of years since I have posted, health issues, family issues, life getting in way. Am not apologizing just stating a fact and am so pleased to have started painting again.<br />
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I began back with watercolor on a couple of challenges.<br />
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This first was from a childhood friend of the Buckingham family, Marc, from a photo I took in France. Just kind of shows his roguish character.<br />
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Next I worked on a little girl from a workshop I took last summer in Florida with a teacher Stephie Butler but never finished it. Well, I jumped in and finished it. Parts I really like, many parts I don't but I finished it the best I could with the satisfaction of learning some techniques.<br />
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Am working on another watercolor , a tiger, but have put it aside as I registered for an e-class in alcohol inks with Alexis Bonavitacola as teacher. I am so pleased and am learning so many things in this class. Alexis is a great teacher and she not only is showing techniques but giving us inspiration talks,music, things to ponder about ourselves and of course the techniques of AI.<br />
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I am taking this at my own pace but am painting or reading each day. Below are a few of my works so far.<br />
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I will try and add more paintings as I complete them. <br />
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I must say this medium is fun and exciting, has a mind of its own but one can create wonderful abstracts with it and expressive flowers and landscapes. <br />
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<br />Judyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05873259691465166943noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8030273540560870757.post-24072181271627532142012-05-04T12:43:00.004-07:002012-05-04T12:43:56.245-07:00May 2012Well I didn't get any more painting done that last week of April but I had started something for another challenge and finished it on May Day so I am counting it for May.<br />
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The challenge was to paint something monochrome using one color and concentrating on values. I picked a photo that I had taken at the zoo several years ago as I really liked the light on him. I also decided to paint loosely as to me that just suited this guy. I chose burnt umber as my color of choice after trying out several other colors but it gave me the warmth that I was going for and also a warm light tone. It is painted on Arches 10 1/2 x 14 1/2<br />
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I was really delighted how this turned out.</div>Judyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05873259691465166943noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8030273540560870757.post-10810431999527924702012-04-25T08:49:00.003-07:002012-04-25T08:49:23.273-07:00April 2012So here I am only one week left in April. This month the only thing I worked on was a challenge that my roomie Mollie (from PF Splash) posted. She had gorgeous poppies in her garden (she lives in TX) and gave us a demo and told us to have at it. So I took one of the photos is this is what I did with it. <br />
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I actually took photos along the way so it is sort of a WIP (work in progress). I really didn't know if it would come out like I had envisioned but actually it is close to what I was thinking. Maybe not as neat as I would have liked but I finished it and I still have a whole week to accomplish some other paintings.<br />
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I chose one of Mollies photos and then enhanced the colors a bit on the computer to get a brilliant red which is what I had in mind for this poppy. I traced on tracing paper and then again to 10 x 14 WC paper. I had mixed a lot of colors on paper as seen below.<br />
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I first began applying Napthol red in varying values trying to put in light and darks sort of. I also then mixed a real dark of diox purple and ultramarine blue so that I could get an idea if I thought it was going to work. On some of the petals I tried to do glazes of peryleen maroon to show the napthol underneath it,</div>
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I continued to work on various petals but then decided to work on the center to see how that would work. I had gotten this cool phalo yellow-green DS and never used it so used some of that, some sap green put in a bit of lighter napthol and tried to carefully put in the really darks.<br />
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On the green pods I used a bit of the phalo y-g and some light sap and threw in some DS sleeping beauty gen. tourquoise.<br />
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At this point I did send it to Mollie and asked what she thought as I really didn't have confidence although I liked the bright colors. I vascillated on the background but the info she sent back to me confirmed what I wanted to do. So I mixed darker bits of the colors in the poppy but added some phalo blue and peylreen here and there and did a couple of coats to make it as dark as I wanted. And this is it the final.<br />
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<br />Judyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05873259691465166943noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8030273540560870757.post-33465702112897733502012-04-24T11:46:00.005-07:002012-04-24T11:46:58.972-07:00March 2012The month of March I did more art work but this time I experimented with a few things.<br />
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One thing is I started on this painting from a photo I took in Puerta Vallarta several years ago of an elderly gentleman who was on a ferry that we were taking to another beach. He just fascinated me with the cowboy hat, nice tan, whitish hair and really blue eyes. So I started to paint him but this is just the beginning of the painting as I got involved in other things this month so haven't finished this gentleman as yet.<br />
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As you can see he needs a lot of work on his face, try and get rid of the pencil lines which are too dark but it was a start.<br />
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Then I decided to try experimenting on canvas using the technique of tissue paper, gesso and then painting and I really liked the result.<br />
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Here was the finally. I saw the bird that had appeared as a "happy accident" so enhanced her a bit and added a bit more color. Am quite pleased with this and plan to do more as it is relaxing and fun and one never knows what is going to show up.</div>
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This was taken at Cannon Beach for my 70th birthday celebration when my bro came out and surprised me.</div>
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I started out okay sort of made a skin tone mixture of rose madder, cob. blue, and yellow ochre. Then I mixed up a mix for the wrinkles of ind. blue and q. rose and a bit of y.o. So I put the lines and shadows and did a glaze of gamboge very pale thought I could get a glow (not) and then did a covering of the skin tone. Well, it just went from bad to worse. One time I took out to show DH and said, "My God you look like an ancient old woman!~~~! You look like your mother." He still sees me as that lithe previous photo, (this photo not included in this blog but suffice it to say it was a photo of me in a bikini in Mexico) bless his heart. So that is one bonus of this. Well I just kept messing and making more of a mess and laughing the entire time. So I had great fun with this and I am going to keep it in my studio as something to make me laugh as to how awful it is.<br />
Hope you enjoy the laugh and my humor. It seemed funny last night.<br />
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<br />Judyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05873259691465166943noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8030273540560870757.post-5136048138800591522012-04-24T10:38:00.001-07:002012-04-24T10:38:31.169-07:00February 2012Wow, it has been such a long time since I have posted a thing on here. I really want to keep it as a record of things that I attempt in art and any improvements I make in artwork. I have been trying to do something with art each day even if it is watching a DVD, reading about a technique, cleaning my studio (in order to mess it up again) or actually painting.<br />
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In February on the painting friends site that I am on we worked on our pallettes and finding out what mixed with what. Our first task was to make sort of a chart of the colors we had on our active pallettes.<br />
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I sort of took a combination of what I use but by no means showed all. I also don't pay attention to the numbers but try to pay attention to the transparency of the paints. I really haven't used cads in a while, I have a lot of quins, many new ones which I haven't tried, and I like them. I don't arrange by warm and cool but by color. In case you can't tell I LOVE color. I also hate to waste paints so I have tons of pallettes with paint on them but then can't remember what they are so kind of guess and try and go "Oh that's cool". <br />
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For blues I use CB a lot and it is great for mixing purples although I have purple on my pallette when I'm lazy and don't feel like mixing. I notice that the two purples I do have are about the same, DS and WN although the DS seems stronger. I like cerelean also for skies, warmer ones, feel to me the CB makes a cooler sky to my eyes.<br />
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Yellows I have a lot as always trying to find a true yellow. It depends on what I am painting. I also have a lemon yellow when I am painting obviously fruit or want something to look really yellow and not green-yellow or brown-yellow; like gamboge for certain things and is a good mixer to make orange. I usually mix an orange but I use one premixed orange pyroll orange that I love but am out of it right now. Use burnt sienna quite a bit as I have different brands of it and as I said don't want to waste paints. Sometimes use BU to get things darker and also will use sepia sometimes but didn't put it on my pallette. For my real darks I will mix in UB with BU and get a nice dark almost black. Have phalo out as sometimes want some punch<br />
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Greens pretty much use sap and underwater green but again depending on what I am painting have a few other greens that I use.<br />
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Which brings me to reds and pinks and magentas which is kind of a mix between pinks and reds to me actually red-violets I have several on my pallette and several more in my paint boxes depending on what I am trying to paint. Use AC and quin red a lot, and a combo of the reds I have on my pallette using the magentas fairly neat to make dark shadows on say an apple or something.<br />
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I also don't clean off the middle of my pallette often as I like the mixes that are created there and will use that sometimes for backgrounds.<br />
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And then made some color wheels etc to see what I would get remembering to label all things. <br />
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this one used permanent red with different yellows hansa, aurelin, azo and different blues ultramarine blue, cerilean and tourquoise geniune<br />
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Used three different reds Quin Red, Napthol Red, Perm Red and the same yellow gamboge and same blue cobalt<br />
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I then became really ambitious and decided to make a record of most of my paints, mix them so I would know what I would get mixing this one with that one. I now have a record of these mixed colors using say all the reds I had with all the blues, all yellows with blues, all reds with yellows. Here are the results. I really got some neat mixes. <br />
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Okay spent the morning with my purples and found out many interesting things. In some of the blue only a smidgeon maybe a pin prick of certain reds was needed. Some blues I will only use for certain effects I found out some of my genuines from DS but they have lovely granulation or make lovely greys sort of separate ones very cool, also the light blues don't do too well making purple with the reds I used but can get some effective lavendars. I found some lovely burgandies which I love one in particular.<br />
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This next sheet GREENS.have some that I really love. If one uses less of the yellow or blue one can get some neat kind of siennas, greys, etc. <br />
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Okay finished the oranges and got some cool oranges. Tried with all kinds of reds and every yellow I had sort of. Found I got a lot of colors that could be a burnt sienna, really neat and other colors from light to dark depending on the proportions that I used or if it was a stronger red or not. Now my big task for today is take this info, clean off my pallette which is a Pike and decide which ones I want on that as an every day pallette. Then use another pallette to put the other colors that I love to use in some of the paintings and see how that works along with the duct tape suggestion or actually painter's tape with the names so I remember as so many look alike. </div>
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I then made a record of all the Daniel Smith paints I have so I would know since I have a lot. <br />
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I still have other brands of paints that someday I will do so that I know what they will produce. <br />
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We then did a few little paintings using warm and cool colors to see the difference. <br />
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Okay I tried today on cups, cool and warm - First mistake went out and bought cheap papers for these samples and didn't check and ended up with 90# paper, hate it doesn't work, hard to control the color or whatever but I plugged on, will make sure cheap paper is 140# for next tries. </div>
What I did was for cool cup used some Hansa yellow for the hit of opposite and the analagous colors were cob. blue, ultramarine, indrathracine (?) and some carb. purple.<br />
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Warm cup Hansa yellow, mixed orange from that and Napthol red and hit with some ind. blue and purple made from mix of N. red and ind. blue.<br />
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This time I remember to write down as I was using the paints as I tend to walk away a lot. Got a cheap pad of strathmore to do these studies still too cheap to use my Arches for these as there is no chance that they are framable, learning tools.<br />
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So this was the bulk of what I worked on in February. Will continue with March in a new post.<br />
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<br />Judyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05873259691465166943noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8030273540560870757.post-75508908888818870662012-01-20T09:58:00.000-08:002012-01-20T09:58:06.276-08:00January 20, 2012Here we are with the January YOP. I chose to paint a setup that I had done. I must have taken 50 photos of different types and fruits and crystal bowls after one of my painting friends had challenged us to do so. I scoured Goodwill as I don't have many crystal bowls and this particular setup I photographed out on our deck one day in the fall when the sun was actually shining here. Here is the photo I chose.<br />
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I transferred the painting to 10 x 14 from transfer paper. I really tried to get all the crystal bits in it but....not so easy. If I did it again I would transfer larger so it wouldn't have been so difficult to do the crystal.<br />
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I tried to take my time and have been working on this slowly for two weeks. Had some hiccups along the way but worked through them. Paints I used were gamboge, perm. red, C. blue, sap green, lemon yellow but also mixed some of my colors mixing gamboge and lemon yellow; blue and red and for the dark background I mixed prussian blue and magenta; grapes I mixed the sap green with lemon yellow. And other dips and daps from my pallette. Had some struggles with getting a shine on the apple and orange but did my best on that. In the end of am quite pleased with the outcome.<br />
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Don't know what the challenge for the month of February will be but meanwhile I have quite a few possible paintings drawn out and want to try a few different things.Judyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05873259691465166943noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8030273540560870757.post-30641571511057140942012-01-10T18:09:00.000-08:002012-01-10T18:09:55.586-08:00January 10, 2012Well, I'm doing okay so far this year. I am trying to do a little 15 minute sketch every day, only started this week. It is supposed to be of things around the house or plein aire. Well it's too cold for outside right now, that will come later but I will try all kinds of different things. Here are my first two.<br />
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Need to do mine for today.<br />
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Another thing I was working on was smushing. Don't you love that word? My roomie from a get together last summer who also gave several wonderful demos, shows us different things on our Painting Friends site. The latest is smushing. You kind of move the paint around after applying on dry paper adding water and smushing it so it blends. It is a kind of fun way to do this. We worked on pears. I wasn't very happy with mine at first so I sent it to Mollie and asked for advice which she gave willing and cheerfully. I took much of her advice and here you can see the before and after using her advice.<br />
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I guess I'm just too impatient and in a hurry to finish something. I find though having another's eye on what you are painting is extremely helpful.<br />
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Well, I'm off to find something to draw for today's sketch. Keep your brushes wet!Judyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05873259691465166943noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8030273540560870757.post-52375427844178092972012-01-06T11:49:00.000-08:002012-01-06T11:49:19.540-08:00JANUARY 6, 2012HAPPY NEW YEAR FRIENDS<br />
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Making all kinds of resolutions to myself including doing something art related every day preferably putting paint to paper but maybe just some drawing practice which I desperately need since I don't draw well or watching DVD watercolor demos. <br />
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I finally finished a painting I started for the December challenge for the PF site which was an entire rose. I changed it up by cropping it, just because and used unusual colors for me. Only used 4 colors mixing bluish purple with cobalt blue and a red (not sure but a bright red) produced a lovely violet with enough water added. Then I mixed a peachy color with gamboge and the same red. I was fairly pleased with the results. At least I have been working on this since the beginning of the year to finish it. Size is 11 x 15 on a paper that I'm not sure what it was. Still love my Arches paper but happen to have this piece of paper so used it.<br />
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Thanks for looking. I hope to be more productive this year. Have lots of ideas not just need to put them to paper.Judyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05873259691465166943noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8030273540560870757.post-43542580441093738542011-12-20T13:37:00.000-08:002011-12-20T13:37:49.697-08:00December 20, 2011Well, we are fast approaching Christmas and the end of the year. This month I really haven't been good at painting every day so will probably get coal in my stocking. The one painting I did get done was a Christmas card for a PF friend Amelia and then used it as my family Christmas card. Usually I try to get a painting done just for the family card and a different one for the exchange butr this year just got behind. Here is the painting I did and sent so Amelia has the original and I just have a copy. Plan to paint this again so I can frame it as I have done in years past and I bring all the paintings I did for each year out and hang them and that is part of our decoration. <br />
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I really was thrilled how this turned out. Will redo this is a larger size. <br />
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I didn't get my YOP painting done even though I love to paint roses but....... Hope to work on it after Christmas and still post it before the end of the year.<br />
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Have done loads of baking and went to a Christmas cookie exchange. The two crystal platters in the front of the table were some of the cookies that I baked this month.<br />
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And then my DH and I celebrated our 47th anniversary yesterday the 19th. Here are a couple of photos from those ancient days.<br />
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So there you have it. Now have to concentrate on shopping, wrapping, more cooking AND PAINTING.Judyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05873259691465166943noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8030273540560870757.post-41065153234236065082011-11-28T12:44:00.000-08:002011-11-28T12:44:47.358-08:00November 28, 2011<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">So now want to start on another card to send to a few select folks. One thing about doing some of these paintings is I at least even with all the hustle and bustle find time to paint just a little almost every day. This is a good thing. Need to do it more.</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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Arches 140# 14" x 20", using maingly DS paints. Photo by Mollie.Judyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05873259691465166943noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8030273540560870757.post-23507881675054673902011-10-28T11:20:00.000-07:002011-10-28T11:20:20.545-07:00Last week in OctoberWell starting working again on the crystal that we started with Mollie's demo at SPLASH in Florida in August. It is something I have never done but I do find that once I get into it, it can be very soothing and relaxing. It is something that I will be working on for awhile and then walking away when I get too lost in where I am going with it. Here is where I am now. I worked on it a bit yesterday on it and will also work on it today.<br />
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</div><div align="left">Then for fun I started a different glass. This is from a photograph that I took of this delicious looking appletini that Deb ordered our last night at Indian Beach. It was a really cool place to eat and drink and then go outside on the patio and dance to a Motown band. Hadn't done something like this is a long time and it was so so much fun. Watching our friend, Cindi, let her hair down so to speak and doing line dancing which I could not catch on to but I had no problem with the rocking kind of dancing. It was so so much fun and I paid dearly for it later on that night with a very sore back but it was worth it.</div><div align="left"><br />
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Don't know how I am going to get in the bubbles and spray thingies but I will figure out something.<br />
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<div align="left"></div>Judyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05873259691465166943noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8030273540560870757.post-65390814825349622322011-10-24T13:09:00.000-07:002011-10-24T13:09:00.466-07:00Week of October 17th WorkWell this week along with other things I worked on a challenge which we call YOP (Year of Painting) I am really behind but did do the one for the month of October which was due the 20th and actually got it in on time. It was a wonderful challenge and something that I don't paint very often but it was fun and interesting. We paint something different each month and this month it was a lovely red antique truck all spruced up.<br />
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Here are a couple of cards that I painted in the last couple of weeks. Am sending one out for a birthday card and the other I sent to a PF friend and I can post it now as she has received it.<br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">This one will be for my brother's birthday. It was of the fixings for the jar of Italian tomatoes behind which I also canned</div><br />
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</div>Judyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05873259691465166943noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8030273540560870757.post-26953212122614002762011-09-16T08:42:00.000-07:002011-09-16T08:42:53.304-07:00Finished Cactus September 16, 2011Hi all, I actually finished this last week but trying to handle computer problems limited my time for art work.<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwdxWMCCRHSK9-qysu__Zy7Ma4cB-LXwUNZZUjrgt10iVVoRDPC1UgBgX36deLmsEnyD-ciLS2FUb4t7LtQGwzqslBq70RO6cqgmFHC4fyVvz6kygQgMDeJH_RaM6V4yuBwLPlkQB3Hgxp/s1600/P1270712crop.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwdxWMCCRHSK9-qysu__Zy7Ma4cB-LXwUNZZUjrgt10iVVoRDPC1UgBgX36deLmsEnyD-ciLS2FUb4t7LtQGwzqslBq70RO6cqgmFHC4fyVvz6kygQgMDeJH_RaM6V4yuBwLPlkQB3Hgxp/s320/P1270712crop.jpg" width="243" /></a>The one thing I learned was to mask very very carefully in the beginning. When I removed the misket, I had a lot of huge white blobs and I did find that I spent a lot of time try to repair. After spending several days looking at what I had finished I must say I am quite pleased with my outcome.<br />
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I do plan to spend some time now working on other paintings that I already have drawn out. It seems I was totally ambitious when I went to Florida as to how much I could accomplish but I have a large variety of drawn out ideas ready to go. Now to just get into that studio and put brush to paper. Judyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05873259691465166943noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8030273540560870757.post-11749640048018357392011-09-07T11:32:00.000-07:002011-09-07T13:41:27.877-07:00Update September 7, 2011Hi all,<br /><br />It has been a busy summer with traveling early in the summer to the East Coast and getting to spend a week with three of my youngest grandchildren in South Carolina and my son and Daughter-in-law. Had a whirlwind week busy all the time and did a lot of photography mainly of the grands.<br /><br />Then on to Connecticut to visit family and up to Cape Cod again to visit family and then into Massachusetts to do some historical research and enjoy that beautiful state.<br /><br />Then my brother visited for a week so again no painting. Gardening then took over and we worked every day trying to get some veggies to grow.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyaeTXQpJoRQ6W0ecVj87OqLumbSW220Jylo97ovsRGrX57vJR8sM75oh7-ma2q6ASgnlXvEGy1DkeNHvi7D9v7IjA950TCUlHyj-HgvWygKU7SZQirQ7G96HP72Hj2K4Cg1iAlbf8Tsjr/s1600/P1270518.JPG"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyaeTXQpJoRQ6W0ecVj87OqLumbSW220Jylo97ovsRGrX57vJR8sM75oh7-ma2q6ASgnlXvEGy1DkeNHvi7D9v7IjA950TCUlHyj-HgvWygKU7SZQirQ7G96HP72Hj2K4Cg1iAlbf8Tsjr/s320/P1270518.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5649699997124757554" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsE3InRYeyqsU5r0678bAK_8C7Q3zJe17NVMYURzst6DwC_Ayjf9dBvFjcR59NVcGGZebiAIUQKYYuidjUmxkn-GmeyD-tD7S0_BBlQOZJy0Dz574oKEghOHgIXrSb3P_nxJZm3CYJBCjU/s1600/BevieSplasherssplash+2+030+%2528500+x+332%2529.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 213px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsE3InRYeyqsU5r0678bAK_8C7Q3zJe17NVMYURzst6DwC_Ayjf9dBvFjcR59NVcGGZebiAIUQKYYuidjUmxkn-GmeyD-tD7S0_BBlQOZJy0Dz574oKEghOHgIXrSb3P_nxJZm3CYJBCjU/s320/BevieSplasherssplash+2+030+%2528500+x+332%2529.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5649704742901625282" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br />But what I had done early in the year was register for a week in Florida in August with some painting friends. They are folks on a web site that I belong to paintingfriends.com and we all gathered in Indian Rocks Beach, FL for a week of painting. We had demos lead but several very good professional artists and I really learned a lot. Have I finished anything? Nope but Am working on it now. Here is a photo of the group with our instructor Bob Hague and portraits that had a different technique. It was very informative a lots of fun.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMg2qo3_Jr9N2JhkZgSLlHV7B4hbdOXJzRSKPms2mBSnqu8PzEHVbEWNoM4E2wDblsMpEDzEx0CrXERdxVbVQrbklyKHSu2QSdwav0NikS7F8bzhErYVjp4pu4jgYHDC7Oz8-UfjFXmWMG/s1600/BevieSplashersPortraitssplash+2+050+%2528500+x+332%2529.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 213px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMg2qo3_Jr9N2JhkZgSLlHV7B4hbdOXJzRSKPms2mBSnqu8PzEHVbEWNoM4E2wDblsMpEDzEx0CrXERdxVbVQrbklyKHSu2QSdwav0NikS7F8bzhErYVjp4pu4jgYHDC7Oz8-UfjFXmWMG/s320/BevieSplashersPortraitssplash+2+050+%2528500+x+332%2529.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5649704744779244818" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiiYOkZZep02Y3aYRDYEi2PRJwhI-z9uGPy3x5qfLxkaPaTWIeAxmyMFgru3MxCHcgoZ_3hN_BcjJEm9w-Uzmz-M5DxLGqv9Y7wlCZCDhuqgjeU7WVNT6JC066poZP6XdhX-SGBneVddrUT/s1600/P1270264.JPG"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiiYOkZZep02Y3aYRDYEi2PRJwhI-z9uGPy3x5qfLxkaPaTWIeAxmyMFgru3MxCHcgoZ_3hN_BcjJEm9w-Uzmz-M5DxLGqv9Y7wlCZCDhuqgjeU7WVNT6JC066poZP6XdhX-SGBneVddrUT/s320/P1270264.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5649698562471002354" border="0" /></a>As you can see there is a lot of work needed for me to learn this technique. I did do another morning's work on this portrait but think I need to go in and try and make this poor girl look like something.<br /><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVCVCA_ArM_bAFUk5P1OeNi0Wl11l-PtGKHRjUFGXLqM1VHN2q1e7ksn4RmOExsAn4EjKd1ATIHLpwbrtl4p-5oN8c1iXgx1U5CJ8dxRKX3O4cuhKf-fxKfsrl4Lg7vSdbqE-Stkq6sEQh/s1600/P1270683.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 237px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVCVCA_ArM_bAFUk5P1OeNi0Wl11l-PtGKHRjUFGXLqM1VHN2q1e7ksn4RmOExsAn4EjKd1ATIHLpwbrtl4p-5oN8c1iXgx1U5CJ8dxRKX3O4cuhKf-fxKfsrl4Lg7vSdbqE-Stkq6sEQh/s320/P1270683.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5649713337051776930" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8bPgpjXZTW5GuXEpYS7v4AafoQ2LTg44H_vvyz6NGWK3pnXQM7noNh4w3JAlc4FZsi9MM70iP6cb2ibpy8nqzURZMdcH1z5WLGxcxnxQcz5wnfCuC5cqmKzVKnFja2jh_5Mpc7fHzObz_/s1600/P1270564+%2528676+x+507%2529+%2528507+x+380%2529.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8bPgpjXZTW5GuXEpYS7v4AafoQ2LTg44H_vvyz6NGWK3pnXQM7noNh4w3JAlc4FZsi9MM70iP6cb2ibpy8nqzURZMdcH1z5WLGxcxnxQcz5wnfCuC5cqmKzVKnFja2jh_5Mpc7fHzObz_/s320/P1270564+%2528676+x+507%2529+%2528507+x+380%2529.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5649715362497484418" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />The very first day of painting Mollie Jones gave a wonderful cactus demo and we worked all day on this. Since it had been so so long since I had painting I had a lot of fears to conquer and just remember that it was just paper. I am enjoying this painting and Mollie is such a great teacher. Of course, I am prejudiced as she was my roomie for the week and I cannot tell you all the giggles and laughter that went on.<br /><br />I did work <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLT0Z6fYVpb3P5_m0MBxzj8CsqdgXlUd4w7VO3ejUGwPfUJ-13MXZExZvIn5q2fSNFgSwUIaUJRdOp4qDfct4W990zYlWCsmxrAu_Wjop4AzL7tgVg3Q5BP-B-4R7nC5oiI09QiwfQXYdj/s1600/P1270665+%2528507+x+676%2529.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLT0Z6fYVpb3P5_m0MBxzj8CsqdgXlUd4w7VO3ejUGwPfUJ-13MXZExZvIn5q2fSNFgSwUIaUJRdOp4qDfct4W990zYlWCsmxrAu_Wjop4AzL7tgVg3Q5BP-B-4R7nC5oiI09QiwfQXYdj/s320/P1270665+%2528507+x+676%2529.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5649704751903155730" border="0" /></a>on this since I have been home and this is where I am so far. I am in the midst of canning produce so not much time to paint and am trying to take my time with this one which I really like so far. Love the blending of the colors and LOVE painting on a larger scale. I just have to remind myself not to be in a rush. The other paintings are there waiting for me and just go slowly and try to achieve what I want to. Do plan to paint more cacti as they are fascinating and have a lot of photos that I took on previous trips of different types of cacti.<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPdEI9z_-EPeYNwGLGFLODym9nevG3bOlpE47VRM_IRN4g5zbAWMr2OhyphenhyphenRVZWAFJwx3HgPYgvXIU3DKTgdhefiUd0oHQaea0xZyx3U_q1sEJ5lvvSMp89HiJgV0cC1kaJWHgE5zTvrwRoE/s1600/P1270680.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPdEI9z_-EPeYNwGLGFLODym9nevG3bOlpE47VRM_IRN4g5zbAWMr2OhyphenhyphenRVZWAFJwx3HgPYgvXIU3DKTgdhefiUd0oHQaea0xZyx3U_q1sEJ5lvvSMp89HiJgV0cC1kaJWHgE5zTvrwRoE/s320/P1270680.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5649713346133249970" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZKqMQXIrlrHAdXvkOFfPRIUO26aOfKveLKLCAKZ0otsXoIJOp_A1MyZcfjXeix9OAkEJlB_sJyMXAOOGP_NFePc-PLnAfZF7VaMrr-eiVjh2cR1wb27-TV9F7K99mDgyGqHYy4AKiWvIe/s1600/P1270365.JPG"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZKqMQXIrlrHAdXvkOFfPRIUO26aOfKveLKLCAKZ0otsXoIJOp_A1MyZcfjXeix9OAkEJlB_sJyMXAOOGP_NFePc-PLnAfZF7VaMrr-eiVjh2cR1wb27-TV9F7K99mDgyGqHYy4AKiWvIe/s320/P1270365.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5649718692826137330" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />A lovely lady named Peg gave a talk on painting clouds. We didn't try to paint clouds this week but we sure did photograph them and with Hurricane Irene imminent the skies produced fantastic cloud formations. Will definitely be going to try and paint just clouds for awhile and put to use what Peg talked about. Here is just one of my photographs. <br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEic5zrscD8YzmEThyphenhyphenYYDaA58_AUVIuLYuWpD_0AOKHIZAMEbzuPr0bCPhP1_Lb0tc3zE6a414g0AihI132u8JHK5LaKuYrw914uC9L0VWQ2Bpj6dCDGgJ9n-JWR6zEFKBTI7oyJu4WPo1Ns/s1600/MollieArtistsCrystalDSC06395.JPG"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEic5zrscD8YzmEThyphenhyphenYYDaA58_AUVIuLYuWpD_0AOKHIZAMEbzuPr0bCPhP1_Lb0tc3zE6a414g0AihI132u8JHK5LaKuYrw914uC9L0VWQ2Bpj6dCDGgJ9n-JWR6zEFKBTI7oyJu4WPo1Ns/s320/MollieArtistsCrystalDSC06395.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5649704742569299954" border="0" /></a>Another demo that Mollie gave was of strawberries in a crystal bowl. What fun this is. It is intricate but sometimes one needs to do this as well. I have not done anything more on this since I left SPLASH but plan to finish this. Here is the group with their crystals and we also spent time photographing setups of different types of crystal with different fruits like this..<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTNtW6tBmTcETSA-n_tOyvtAUsQczjO_f-xU_vT37SV9yrApNs_YrZtaZ8Or1uyGbm2EXGRfeBcA6f6L3C0nutmpSFfE610xbHO1aBGw6NVFV3y5fjB_D2Fji-KAIziVDx5yXwsGQybP9G/s1600/P1270506.JPG"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTNtW6tBmTcETSA-n_tOyvtAUsQczjO_f-xU_vT37SV9yrApNs_YrZtaZ8Or1uyGbm2EXGRfeBcA6f6L3C0nutmpSFfE610xbHO1aBGw6NVFV3y5fjB_D2Fji-KAIziVDx5yXwsGQybP9G/s320/P1270506.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5649715376580894146" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnu1gmkiFYfrUSr4cPuPXejLgtJmdLstDX5-DgzJ8_bJUOfiOUNRD7HT72xA9gEz_IdT2LmI2lQNUe6OAjbEWgRYE_lJ3_25sfarGm9eNktHBO0rl6nALjqszxU_ZFbq7Kon9_dK4YRZMq/s1600/P1270681.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 229px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnu1gmkiFYfrUSr4cPuPXejLgtJmdLstDX5-DgzJ8_bJUOfiOUNRD7HT72xA9gEz_IdT2LmI2lQNUe6OAjbEWgRYE_lJ3_25sfarGm9eNktHBO0rl6nALjqszxU_ZFbq7Kon9_dK4YRZMq/s320/P1270681.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5649718682188727394" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />And this is the end of a wonderful week in Florida and the end of my summer. I plan to be painting more so keep tuned for updates. I find by posting my progress it helps me keep encourage to go on with my love of painting and photography.Judyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05873259691465166943noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8030273540560870757.post-27770555357827425552011-05-20T08:36:00.000-07:002011-05-20T08:42:12.338-07:00May 20, 2011<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyWC4_lO9H0-v_S3V1kJMlWdyhZaiNRBke7ebKnnusW0-ku_TZJsB7C4bjyPwz-VOsEIhEQXpVKMNKjXh2zSGTBt5rYZzY0_zCblOvHYVtDRBX-ZUT_9-EAePtLK23P3bxzGlcEiUGdCw1/s1600/final+app+%2528987+x+682%2529+%2528494+x+341%2529.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 221px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyWC4_lO9H0-v_S3V1kJMlWdyhZaiNRBke7ebKnnusW0-ku_TZJsB7C4bjyPwz-VOsEIhEQXpVKMNKjXh2zSGTBt5rYZzY0_zCblOvHYVtDRBX-ZUT_9-EAePtLK23P3bxzGlcEiUGdCw1/s320/final+app+%2528987+x+682%2529+%2528494+x+341%2529.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5608823896623590722" border="0" /></a><br />Well here is my painting for the month. In my Painting Friends site that I belong to we are painting a different subject each month and are supposed to be putting a lot of planning into it. I haven't gotten to the point of doing a lot of sketches (not my strong suit) nor thinking too much about changing the photo that is provided. I need to do more of this to make a painting mine and not just a copy. I did change colors on the tablecloth and cropped the photo but that is as far as I got. Need to simplify and not be a slave to a photo. Take the good parts and create something just mine.<br /><br />I did have fun doing this as it is not a subject that I would normally do. I don't do much in the way of still lifes or it is not my favorite thing to really do.<br /><br />On to my next project for the month of May/June. Don't have the subject as yet and will not be painting for a couple of weeks. Will photograph instead.Judyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05873259691465166943noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8030273540560870757.post-84195231145183295462011-05-10T17:01:00.000-07:002011-05-10T17:14:35.770-07:00Doing several paintings. This one is basically done for what I wanted to do. It is a demo from a wonderful site I belong to at www.paintingfriends.com and we are having a get together in August in FL for a week of painting. So we needed to practice these berries in order to be able to follow along better in the demo since we are going to have several demos.<br /><br />I loved doing these. Red is such a happy color but also staining. First you do an undercoat of gamboge which gives the berry a lovely glow. Let it dry thoroughly and then technique is to pick up three colors 2 red, one blue on the brush neat put it on the basic of the berry and then kind of "smush" it around. You clean your brush and use clean water and come from the part of the berry where the leaves are and let it mingle. You do the same with the leaves but obviously with greens.<br /><br />Well it took me forever with other things going on but here is my first effort of the splash berries. Interesting technique , did struggle with it, like how in the world did your paints in the well not mix up by the time you got to the third color? And I probably had put too much paint (neat) on the brush as I really had a mess a couple of times. Then there was the masking really made a mess of it and didn't realize it until I pulled it off. Will do it differently I think when I do these for the Splash for real. It wouldn't work with a toothpick to put the mask on and my special masking thingie that is so expensive won't work right so I will probably need to purchase another.<br /><br />It was fun to do in bright colors. I didn't have the perm red I think it was (I have since bought one) so I used a quin in place of it or maybe I replaced that with naphthol red with is a brilliant red and I love it but I also didn't have something else that was listed, can't remember now. Anyway I liked my color of strawberries but wow one of them is really staining.<br /><br />Anyhow here is the end result. I was fairly pleased with the results but need much more work on the smushing technique and also the seeds. I had masked them and made them too big and then had to back track and try and repair damage. Plan to practice just seeds to figure out a better way to do them.<br /><br /><img title="Name: Mollys strawberries practice (1755 x 1276) (579 x 421).jpg Views: 2 Size: 60.0 KB" src="http://paintingfriends.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=6949&d=1305068806" alt="Name: Mollys strawberries practice (1755 x 1276) (579 x 421).jpg Views: 2 Size: 60.0 KB" style="margin: 2px" border="0" />Judyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05873259691465166943noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8030273540560870757.post-33505518721654042232011-04-21T09:27:00.000-07:002011-04-21T10:31:54.929-07:00Well here we are in the Spring of 2011 and I haven't posted in forever. What with traveling over Christmas and doing other things my painting kind of was put aside. Here are a couple of things I have done this year so far and now I'm really trying to do some painting each day for one challenge or another or trying to learn a new technique. Just to catch up and have a record of what I have done this year.<br /><br />We have a portrait challenge where we do at least one portrait a month. Here were my attempts so far.<br /><br />This was the first one I attempted. Really lots wrong with this one, his eyes are too close, pupils too large, skin not too bad and hair was kind of fun to do. Good experience. On to the next one.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjESXE7Fjt6TFxvJI_loz5DpSEYiiqzDfN5galUEjykfdA_vMhax059oZ3yTis1LGI9-I_n8uwE5A6jUCUue5Pm-baJmaKCsog0xjBafqriL4zEdOUpLzd0vi9Unx1r9qn7f90zns08OtUb/s1600/indian+boy+done+no+1+try.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 233px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjESXE7Fjt6TFxvJI_loz5DpSEYiiqzDfN5galUEjykfdA_vMhax059oZ3yTis1LGI9-I_n8uwE5A6jUCUue5Pm-baJmaKCsog0xjBafqriL4zEdOUpLzd0vi9Unx1r9qn7f90zns08OtUb/s320/indian+boy+done+no+1+try.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5598087360838010354" border="0" /></a><br /><br />Liked parts of this little boy, some of his skin tones and eyes. Had a bit of problem with his hair but all and all not too bad.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimX5T5OO0CCeeIH2I_2lnVPTKA8u3-RX5gFOP0NrQMMj6QlQ42Eb7ILI6SKRJFh2yf0mUMRv7vFhGRZEtaCKBxwEAiSGdYUAfiifZXeCBYlzbhv07fHV6ERnklI1BbamEYKyoVoMQ6UyKn/s1600/little+boy.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 286px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimX5T5OO0CCeeIH2I_2lnVPTKA8u3-RX5gFOP0NrQMMj6QlQ42Eb7ILI6SKRJFh2yf0mUMRv7vFhGRZEtaCKBxwEAiSGdYUAfiifZXeCBYlzbhv07fHV6ERnklI1BbamEYKyoVoMQ6UyKn/s320/little+boy.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5598084740818571874" border="0" /></a><br /><br />Next was this little girl. Again I liked lots about this one, fairly satisfied, really worked on her hair and her eyes which were an incredible blue. Really struggled with the right eye, it looks okay but could have been better if I had used good paper. Sometimes when I do these paintings I use my cheap paper which is a huge mistake. What if I really like something? Need to keep this in mind.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFgghkweo2IyDacC70RwvQ_eob1m2u8IzIc55DwxH_tTkMCsSF7on_Car_aIk3i2kJSDnp5dLOXEHpn9I9gctiQhz2qlTD7G6AUXnt1Nxt2V20pSKynimTSCamy4adSB2eJaXMN9l4MBte/s1600/little+girl-boy.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 272px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFgghkweo2IyDacC70RwvQ_eob1m2u8IzIc55DwxH_tTkMCsSF7on_Car_aIk3i2kJSDnp5dLOXEHpn9I9gctiQhz2qlTD7G6AUXnt1Nxt2V20pSKynimTSCamy4adSB2eJaXMN9l4MBte/s320/little+girl-boy.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5598086097658025362" border="0" /></a><br /><br />This is really one of my favorites so far. I used only one color of paint an indigo blue to make a monochrome painting just using different tones and values. He looked so sad and he really could be every man from anywhere in the world really.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZOGxhz2MDBouJYwRfBu_Fp0qD1Up4WfEgh5hHM2-RPW6VmM8V0ofxEveiAoix8lgfRkAlCuE-zxZdKHoBnM7okuyT2hUlV1FZfjHDvptUR78ZlUuBIvoPn8UjZtTtrdvPRDPzkTWc6f39/s1600/P1250229.JPG"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZOGxhz2MDBouJYwRfBu_Fp0qD1Up4WfEgh5hHM2-RPW6VmM8V0ofxEveiAoix8lgfRkAlCuE-zxZdKHoBnM7okuyT2hUlV1FZfjHDvptUR78ZlUuBIvoPn8UjZtTtrdvPRDPzkTWc6f39/s320/P1250229.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5598086905027924562" border="0" /></a><br /><br />This one I did yesterday. Our challenge was to take a photo of a bust of a man (probably some old Roman guy) and paint it emphasizing the shapes and shadows. The photo had a blue tone. People were saying he was creepy probably because these statues or busts don't have any pupils or iris in their eyes it is just the white part with the lids. So I decided to use a color that is used sometimes as an underpainting called caput mortuum violet (the name suited this guy's status) but used it to warm him up. This one when I finished made me giggle because he is really creepy now but kind of cool.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgA9lIEoWocdIbLYlnaNuBTGOp7v8-_lzftpsAyZV6R2xgc7h7qcuNp-vA4Oeb-OauqRNU0X-bunqPTfQRTJ4gGqce_px4NDN519ZTIZULeHNgDD0vDh8PAnp81wc-mIVVM_Qyjhl3OtOPJ/s1600/scary+bust+of+a+man.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 233px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgA9lIEoWocdIbLYlnaNuBTGOp7v8-_lzftpsAyZV6R2xgc7h7qcuNp-vA4Oeb-OauqRNU0X-bunqPTfQRTJ4gGqce_px4NDN519ZTIZULeHNgDD0vDh8PAnp81wc-mIVVM_Qyjhl3OtOPJ/s320/scary+bust+of+a+man.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5598087375782295186" border="0" /></a><br /><br />Then for something a little different for the past month we are doing a challenge of taking a picture that is posted and taking a part of it and painting it any way we wish. We sketch it out, some folks did lots of sketches, that's not my thing but I did do one sketch, then I cropped the photo to get where I wanted to emphasize. Then I mixed two pages of colors. I'll tell you I was really ready to give up because as you can see there are a lot of greens in this painting and they are all mixed from different blues and yellows, no tubes of green were used. As I said I was ready to dump it and give up but kept on. This was my final which we posted yesterday. Not too bad.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMe1mVToSS84lT4FjuO0GPLfl16kN4R6iwSRxQoyAza3XDwaA_r-ooXI6ahJD3Qi80dHP9ewjHXJwFhGtx0pRehAWbVzKQEJcT347VzndLxuzHVHuJW6Y4RhWRFZut3XGrYldCfiBpb7dr/s1600/YOP+-+April+20+final.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 234px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMe1mVToSS84lT4FjuO0GPLfl16kN4R6iwSRxQoyAza3XDwaA_r-ooXI6ahJD3Qi80dHP9ewjHXJwFhGtx0pRehAWbVzKQEJcT347VzndLxuzHVHuJW6Y4RhWRFZut3XGrYldCfiBpb7dr/s320/YOP+-+April+20+final.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5598087378779396802" border="0" /></a><br /><br />So next month we have a new challenge, a still life with a lot of bright colors. Should be fun. Now I need to go to my painting room and work on another portrait that I am just doing for practice. It is one that a friend has done and posted and I am trying to learn the technique but will post when I finish.<br /><br /></div><br /><br /><input id="gwProxy" type="hidden"><!--Session data--><input onclick="if(typeof(jsCall)=='function'){jsCall();}else{setTimeout('jsCall()',500);}" id="jsProxy" type="hidden"><div id="refHTML"></div>Judyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05873259691465166943noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8030273540560870757.post-25683839225220123092010-07-18T11:25:00.000-07:002010-07-18T11:49:09.602-07:00July 18, 2010Quite awhile since I've been here. Been very busy with our youngest son's wedding and house guests and a nasty cold/flu which just hung on and sapped energy. Hopefully I'm back to enjoying trying to create some art.<br /><br />First I tried to get back into painting by doing a FF challenge on one of the painting web sites that I'm on. It turned out just ok but at least got my brushes wet.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXxGUZBOv7wEbXahKeZIi1d7IMfuDtZvZuAZvonoRZSEtoaDx3foaUhtkZbetv-KxNZ_Pp3jeyfGfLjk5ilOtPrrqaVADQ5GhDjQJlYqAy_i1o5ztTAhZIN3uUxJe9axGxRx4hL8jPDFS1/s1600/finally+ff.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 233px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXxGUZBOv7wEbXahKeZIi1d7IMfuDtZvZuAZvonoRZSEtoaDx3foaUhtkZbetv-KxNZ_Pp3jeyfGfLjk5ilOtPrrqaVADQ5GhDjQJlYqAy_i1o5ztTAhZIN3uUxJe9axGxRx4hL8jPDFS1/s320/finally+ff.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5495318221095791586" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br />I like the colors and the blending, poor bee doesn't look much like himself, he he he<br /><br />Then more time went by and a lovely lady by the name of Mollie put up a demo on painting a sunflower so I though aha just the ticket. I love sunflowers such happy flowers. So I tried to learn the technique.<br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUzvf9lVclMx6Pa_tQE3mvwlzKqSrRxTCxs260g7Mo2BGCr1qjUruDB40_NY2GMUFjEuWeJitUULBx7Nq9050wLTZYavpHVuozLWsQSEAIZUMUdiuDEpnxFvzufI8PbMBhpFksADMXPm6a/s1600/first+try+on+sunflower.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 234px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUzvf9lVclMx6Pa_tQE3mvwlzKqSrRxTCxs260g7Mo2BGCr1qjUruDB40_NY2GMUFjEuWeJitUULBx7Nq9050wLTZYavpHVuozLWsQSEAIZUMUdiuDEpnxFvzufI8PbMBhpFksADMXPm6a/s320/first+try+on+sunflower.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5495318453797218706" border="0" /></a>Well, just couldn't get the dot technique but I was trying. I had another failure and almost gave up and then I worked on the following one. I still couldn't get the hang of the dots and just bringing water to the dots and letting the paint do its work. I sort of got it but wasn't getting the results I wanted. Then I reread the directions and tried some more and sort of got it but then couldn't resist just adding my own colors and idea to the sunflower. It wasn't the total looseness that I wished but satisfactory. I'm not comfortable having no drawing to go by and just trying to do the drawing with the paintbrush other than a bit in the center. Also struggled with my leaves, definitely need much more practice on this technique but a lot of folks had very kind encouraging comments on my painting. I used mainly Daniel Smith paints (really love them) and a few Michael Grahams that I still have left. Painted 10x14 Arches 140# block. Think I will try this again on a larger sheet and see if I can't paint larger and looser.<br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzqVhJX0_rZDPbILF7982sApgHd6A5mwpXRwouhCfl2SXZV-UFd2AAJSOU19lW-EBjLKSatSPLSQG0dqNrBk4YwtNDhXFuU-Ry9-FR5VeY5Ml4G4HbxXelIje68yhcriGJozHBmH5iPvnb/s1600/P1210808.JPG"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzqVhJX0_rZDPbILF7982sApgHd6A5mwpXRwouhCfl2SXZV-UFd2AAJSOU19lW-EBjLKSatSPLSQG0dqNrBk4YwtNDhXFuU-Ry9-FR5VeY5Ml4G4HbxXelIje68yhcriGJozHBmH5iPvnb/s320/P1210808.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5495319193189577234" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br />The other thing I tried was a demo I had found online of Fantasy Flowers and it also helped me climb out of my blockage to painting. In this you just put on paints and kind of shape a vase, again no drawing, and then use ink pens to pen in some suggested flowers; then use colored WC pencils and add some shading. This is how far I am with this. Kind of fun and that's what painting should be about.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhC5Li9e2fltKaw4091DaXNFsaEZQ1f2GLQrPrRxCxLI062_quxaLAIRTtrjUaUtprN1eH149eOnwk2VpJsIZKqeO-iu91p2gO1zllihJmCxez8fBU_Tn3qD13u9SFEmnmIOoyciwksYAko/s1600/P1210814.JPG"><img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhC5Li9e2fltKaw4091DaXNFsaEZQ1f2GLQrPrRxCxLI062_quxaLAIRTtrjUaUtprN1eH149eOnwk2VpJsIZKqeO-iu91p2gO1zllihJmCxez8fBU_Tn3qD13u9SFEmnmIOoyciwksYAko/s320/P1210814.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5495319617924892994" border="0" /></a>And a close up<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3dmb2JSDMnTmpGzYiahXb4ogn2JE9L9bYENzB8j3bGZ40y7YFpKOwUaJRHm5X4dT0UCgwTZMtPwRIbnhPnDg_aPWc_-xhI3wm7AzLgsjYMV1jgamYJbMTxcRdisDPsaVlRoxyQfoo3H9K/s1600/P1210816.JPG"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3dmb2JSDMnTmpGzYiahXb4ogn2JE9L9bYENzB8j3bGZ40y7YFpKOwUaJRHm5X4dT0UCgwTZMtPwRIbnhPnDg_aPWc_-xhI3wm7AzLgsjYMV1jgamYJbMTxcRdisDPsaVlRoxyQfoo3H9K/s320/P1210816.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5495319930906348306" border="0" /></a><br /><br />So now am going to try and finish paintings that I've started and if I can't get inspired by that I will flip the paper over and do something else on the back.<br /><br /><br /><br /><input id="gwProxy" type="hidden"><!--Session data--><input onclick="if(typeof(jsCall)=='function'){jsCall();}else{setTimeout('jsCall()',500);}" id="jsProxy" type="hidden"><div id="refHTML"></div><input id="gwProxy" type="hidden"><!--Session data--><input onclick="if(typeof(jsCall)=='function'){jsCall();}else{setTimeout('jsCall()',500);}" id="jsProxy" type="hidden"><div id="refHTML"></div><input id="gwProxy" type="hidden"><!--Session data--><input onclick="if(typeof(jsCall)=='function'){jsCall();}else{setTimeout('jsCall()',500);}" id="jsProxy" type="hidden"><div id="refHTML"></div>Judyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05873259691465166943noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8030273540560870757.post-87796249256525571302010-04-30T21:38:00.000-07:002010-04-30T21:56:52.688-07:00APRIL 30, 2010<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgl7UyL1sg6L16ivxUJGG43oFxOD6sAItSp-ngTnG7R1qcJkAw4W6g8GoPR8KF3qFtpACv4xjp8AshiL4vDSv6L8RgFWnzRyY0flYL8o5Ig2q-IiWhQQBLx14_KxOEQE_qFTGm3TsBA1sVY/s1600/portrait+1-2.jpg">Well here is what I've been working on this week. In one of the web sites that I'm in we are working on portraits. There was a lovely photo of an Indian boy that I loved, poor guy. So I tried him. First I had to draw. I don't draw well, my fault, I don't practice but this time I was determined. Here was my effort.<br /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAPnc-L-SWoQKqQkiD1R09XQA0b75M5iaUrjffIz2mLZuuWzBo2yUUtnzU-NYWCIAIID_LQLvjtCrlEpbYe55vFDakfwo33mMqjC7KBqb98osSpFlE5yOSK9Kmp8rMPgtwfctwOf534LcR/s1600/arapahoe+little+boy+-+no+1+portrait.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 259px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAPnc-L-SWoQKqQkiD1R09XQA0b75M5iaUrjffIz2mLZuuWzBo2yUUtnzU-NYWCIAIID_LQLvjtCrlEpbYe55vFDakfwo33mMqjC7KBqb98osSpFlE5yOSK9Kmp8rMPgtwfctwOf534LcR/s320/arapahoe+little+boy+-+no+1+portrait.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5466158863163019746" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br />So then after a week's worth of work I was fairly pleased so I decided to put paint to paper. This was my result. Not too good. Didn't have colors right and not the right paper. I just kept changing and changing which meant stressing the paper.<br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-2ODx58ZfqHn64BjKgNJyFiGeFD_0Hrgb_0nZw12QPhcoZhrEwvFAKMyUXDB_QwnKaQS_r2NdJOQzcZ_UslpHY23d7mF-wdZAV7DdQVjiEBLv2XbugAxVZMuRAwUl_L6jwYKa3XYEPfY3/s1600/portrait+1-2.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 182px; height: 254px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-2ODx58ZfqHn64BjKgNJyFiGeFD_0Hrgb_0nZw12QPhcoZhrEwvFAKMyUXDB_QwnKaQS_r2NdJOQzcZ_UslpHY23d7mF-wdZAV7DdQVjiEBLv2XbugAxVZMuRAwUl_L6jwYKa3XYEPfY3/s320/portrait+1-2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5466158331346172930" border="0" /></a><br /><br />Well needless to say I haven't been pleased, too purple, eyes not right but I kept on. Did I mention this is the little Indian Arapahoe that I am trying to paint.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9BTm1XZxTaOINd7AG6RQDJnwwwIxH0ewsdR-zJUnsZL1Eu8ev5O4xNUcUx-GAam2PKKsaODg-67fwidjkG1YnUlTj0oJZuc_ZDSITwUoGg6dY8h1l9_dsfPjKvMVL3YnMdN5-vH3jpz2M/s1600/user1002_pic504_1271598287.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 293px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9BTm1XZxTaOINd7AG6RQDJnwwwIxH0ewsdR-zJUnsZL1Eu8ev5O4xNUcUx-GAam2PKKsaODg-67fwidjkG1YnUlTj0oJZuc_ZDSITwUoGg6dY8h1l9_dsfPjKvMVL3YnMdN5-vH3jpz2M/s320/user1002_pic504_1271598287.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5466160294903384674" border="0" /></a><br />Poor little guy I hope he forgives me. I really tried but it got to the point that I had removed the paint so many times that I had a hole in the paper. Yup that bad. I did learn a lot of things and I plan to redo this proud warrior on different paper that will take my constant changing and removing the paint. He was what I ended up with on my first try. You will see this little guy again and hopefully he will be better.<br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCX2hXTFksEntB6pHZPX1wn-G1QK04gfxj-MwXR_aa74rwQn06x2wzprGZoahFuxVFKyvmJqBXbEltm3QWZT9W5iN0CuPf1Qyg7bffWfvsOEC4KApjcESZdI3-CMlYrTU_Qu3G3UI5iwTO/s1600/indian+boy+done+no+1+try.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 233px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCX2hXTFksEntB6pHZPX1wn-G1QK04gfxj-MwXR_aa74rwQn06x2wzprGZoahFuxVFKyvmJqBXbEltm3QWZT9W5iN0CuPf1Qyg7bffWfvsOEC4KApjcESZdI3-CMlYrTU_Qu3G3UI5iwTO/s320/indian+boy+done+no+1+try.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5466160985237742306" border="0" /></a><br /><input id="gwProxy" type="hidden"><!--Session data--><input onclick="jsCall();" id="jsProxy" type="hidden"><div id="refHTML"></div>Judyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05873259691465166943noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8030273540560870757.post-89104480034137557592010-04-19T17:15:00.000-07:002010-04-19T17:21:29.266-07:00The finished Daisy<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdmwmVjkzdKB0UHusFZb_3JmEOIE1W2FaQKNtJl9v78TKzfcU6FVghcb-PAcFuL9HEe9BLEhTaVcayiHT9GLxcHJqsGf2mjSrYNqAdlnTq8qYH-nxOHeKMZE2EZEWALI3hzdRJdwGZ_NuZ/s1600/Img0650.JPG"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdmwmVjkzdKB0UHusFZb_3JmEOIE1W2FaQKNtJl9v78TKzfcU6FVghcb-PAcFuL9HEe9BLEhTaVcayiHT9GLxcHJqsGf2mjSrYNqAdlnTq8qYH-nxOHeKMZE2EZEWALI3hzdRJdwGZ_NuZ/s320/Img0650.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5462008118467655186" border="0" /></a><br />I was persistent and bound and determined to finish this. It was quite a struggle and I'm not sure if I like it. It was a foreign way for me to paint, one petal at a time and quite meticulous. I love that way, admire the work but it probably isn't the kind of painting that I do very well.<br /><br />The results? Well not too bad considering, not my favorite painting of mine but it looks a lot better than it did. I know I could work a lot more on it but really I have so many things stacked up to paint I'm going to move along, take the marvelous instruction that Ruth gave me and try and incorporate some of it and see what else I can learn with the next thing I attempt.<br /><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><br /><br />ONWARDS to the next challenge.<br /></span><input id="gwProxy" type="hidden"><!--Session data--><input onclick="jsCall();" id="jsProxy" type="hidden"><div id="refHTML"></div><input id="gwProxy" type="hidden"><!--Session data--><input onclick="jsCall();" id="jsProxy" type="hidden"><div id="refHTML"></div><input id="gwProxy" type="hidden"><!--Session data--><input onclick="jsCall();" id="jsProxy" type="hidden"><div id="refHTML"></div>Judyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05873259691465166943noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8030273540560870757.post-61730843609188517392010-04-07T12:52:00.000-07:002010-04-07T13:01:52.977-07:00April 7, 2010Well again I have become remiss in painting. Got very very involved in a photo project for my husband's 70th birthday and that took a month to gather the photos (I have hundreds and hundreds of both slides and hard photos) This does not count all the 100 CDs I have. Really I think I just take too many photos. <br /><br />Anyway project was a huge success, all six children contributed wrote stories and we now have a beautiful coffee table book of my husband's 70 years. <br /><br />So even though I have other projects I'm working on I'm starting to get my brushes wet again.<br /><br />First I have been working on a demo from a watercolor site that I'm on, thanks Ruth. I haven't gotten far and it may not be the best way for me to paint as I'm definitely not a meticulous painter but I love the results of a meticulous painter. I feel that one can always take away a lot of techniques by doing the different demos and thus that is what I'm trying to do. Here is the result of how far I've gotten, have a long way to go.<br /><br /><a href="http://photobucket.com" target="_blank"><img src="http://i121.photobucket.com/albums/o212/hopefulbucky/beginning1.jpg" border="0" alt="beginning1.jpg" /></a><br /><br />And I also from the same web site had a Friday Foto challenge of two men chatting but in a different setting. I put them in my own imaginary setting and this is what I got. Some things I like but many things not so much. I changed colors of clothing and that worked and the shading of the clothing worked but some of the other things not so much. Need to just paint more and really am talking to myself a lot about "taking some time for me".<br /><br /><a href="http://photobucket.com" target="_blank"><img src="http://i121.photobucket.com/albums/o212/hopefulbucky/menjawing.jpg" border="0" alt="men jawing.jpg" /></a><br /><br />So now I have a few things to do but am going to get back to my daisy petals and maybe start something in pastel as well. The above two paintings are in watercolor.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><input id="gwProxy" type="hidden"><!--Session data--><input onclick="jsCall();" id="jsProxy" type="hidden"><div id="refHTML"></div>Judyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05873259691465166943noreply@blogger.com0