Turquoise and lime for APR

How yummy does that sound,

turquoise and lime, turquoise and lime

kinda rolls off your tongue.

Makes me think of sipping some

tropical cocktail on a warm sunny beach.

Dang this cold winter, 

I want spring!!

I decided to paint

a summery scene

(even though my fingers are

freezing off)

using the theme colours for this

weeks Artist's Playroom,

yes, you guessed it

turquoise and lime.

Okay, it's pretty obvious that this poor girl

has had some work done.

Fake tan, nose job and too much filler to the lips

but hey that's the way the young girls go these days

(cough, cough, not my bad painting).

I have to admit, I had heaps of fun

and lots of panics with this piece.

I started by playing with goopy stuff

to make it stand out in places and

ended up wearing most of the goop.

Then the horror movie stage

where I add a bit more paint

She looks really freaky

with the white eye.

I'm sure this put me off because

I had lots of little oopsies,

like when I had two palettes on the go

and way too many brushes in my mouth and hands

and used the wrong colour across her cheek.

Then there was the, it's time to get a new 

tube of paint moment, when I squeezed out the paint and

it came out all over my hand, 

cos it has an extra hole in the old tube.

After all the fun and games

she turned out kinda okay

Love those lumpy bits of hair and the eye is okay too.
I might refine the hair more, but I sorta like it straggly.

It was fun painting something I don't normally do,
but I think I will steer clear of people.

I think that she looks better from a distance,
I took this shot first but realised you can see my mess.

So don't look at that
try this one

Looks better from here, than it does up close.

Now I have my goopy stuff I might do some underwater scenes
and have the fish tails standing out and the coral,
Oooh I can feel some more fun coming on.

While I go and find a scene to paint,
why don't you hop on over to Jenn's
Artist's Playroom
and see what everyone else
has done with
turquoise and lime.
Sorry, had to say it just one more time.
Turquoise and lime (he he).