Some old stuff, some WIP

Wow, February. Why does time seem to speed up the older we get?? I'll bet it's some weird "space-time continuum" thing. ;)

I'm back to painting, and I've got a few things in progress. Plus, when we traveled home to Spokane for the holidays, I took pictures of paintings I've done for my Mom. So, a few older pieces and then my WIP.

Buffy
Colored Pencil


Teddy and Tahoe
Watercolor


Now the WIPs. I love oils, but since our house is small, I just can't do them inside. So I decided to try Water Soluble Oils, and wow! they're really Cool!! So, the first one is from a black and white photo of my Grandma, when she was probably in her early/mid 20's.

Grandma


And another in water soluble oils.
A dangerous girl!!

Please remember, both Grandma and the "Dangerous girl" are both works in progress!!

Geisha

Here's a piece I did a while back for a friend. I got the photo reference from Frantisek Staud's website with his gracious permission.

Backlog

I have been drawing. Really.
Just something about the whole "scanning and posting" thing, it's so tedious.
But, in a tedious mood, I decided to scan a few and post 'em.

I had a terrific Mother's Day

And a really nice birthday

We went to see the new Star Trek, very cool...

And yes, I'm a Taurus. No comment.

Saw the Eagles live, and all I can say is ... WOW!!

I've had these thongs forever!! And they're still going strong. Nasty looking, but oh well....



Mike's little wall lamp.



A very mysterious-looking fella... probably up to no good!!

This is fun!

Most folks have probably found this site by now, and I admit, I played with it over a year ago. But it's just so much fun!!



I'm thinking of printing a few of these on nice paper and use them for endpapers in the books I make. Might be interesting... :D

2 new portraits

Lots happened since my last post. But about the images...
the first one turned out ok and was fun to do, especially the Corvette!!





The next one didn't turn out as well as I'd hoped. Plus, you can't see the colors in the scan. I painted the dress and her gloves with "Interference" by Golden. It changes colors depending on how you hold it. So her dress changes to pink and gloves to blue. Fun stuff...



We got back from a 3 week trip to Germany a couple of weeks ago, I'll write about that in my next blog. It was a fabulous trip!! I'm ready to go back!
:)

Moly x 3 Portraits, so far

I seem to go in cycles. For a while, I make journals and other book structures like crazy. Then, I get enough of that and have to return to basics, drawing. Which is what I've been doing lately. I joined the Moleskine Portait group, in which you draw yourself, then send to the next person on the list. They must draw you and themselves, and send on to the next person.
So, here's the portrait I did of myself....

(Yes Kathleen, the pic makes me look WAY younger than I really am.)
The next one is the work-in-progress for the next person on the list, Albina.


and in a burst of insane creativity (maybe it was the cold medicine...) here's the finished Moly I'm sending to the next person on the list.


So, thankfully, I don't have anymore portaits on my plate. yet..... :D
Happy, Sane, Holidays!

For the Moly X Portrait3 folks

Hi all,
Nope, pics of me aren't here, they're on my Flickr Site:      http://flickr.com/photos/96558250@N00/


I'm sending my moly out tomorrow, and YAY!! I got Albina's today!! So, I'm gonna get going and get on schedule. 'sigh'.... at least try....
No, wait, Yoda said "Try not. Do or do not. There is no try." Crap. Guess I gotta "do". No options here, I don't wanna mess with Yoda. Do you??


I went out and snooped at Albina's various sites, and I'm SO impressed!! Wow, what an artist!! And a photographer and a writer!! Where does she get her time??


Anyway, here in sunny California it snowed today, plus some hail. But it didn't stick, it's just cold and wet. I had to go out for a bit, and got caught in a hail storm. Funny, seems like just yesterday it was over 100 degrees here. :D