A series of unfortunate events.

Today is friday and I don't normally

get to do any artwork on friday 

as that's my housework day

and after three weeks of 

school holidays you can imagine the state of my house.

I really wanted to play with my inks today

and so decided that a little music would help to speed up my housework.

On went Susi Quatro, Kiss, and Meatloaf

and I was happily dancing my way through the housework

when big miss (21 year old) popped home

she gave me THE look 

(you know the one, where it's a roll of the eyes and the oh god, old lady trying to be young again look)

She didn't say a word, just looked and disappeared upstairs

in disgust, as if stunned that I would listen to that rubbish.

But hey, it got me through the housework in record time

and then I came in to play with my inks.

In my last post I showed you my first attempts at inking canvasses

and now I'm fixing up the bits I want changed and the bits I messed up.

I started with Charlie.

Here he is with his poor little face all black and goopy.
It was the result of a fight with a syringe.

Up close, looks like he's gone a few rounds with Mike Tyson.

I painted over the bad bits yesterday and left it to dry thoroughly.

 Mixing up the ink.  I was going well until I decided to use a pipette to drop a few drops in.  I squeezed it and instead of a nice little droplet
I got a huge spray all over me and the canvas.
Madly wiped with a cloth to get it off before it dried.

 Dropped in my mixed colour and squirted the water too hard
had to mop up all the overflow, bummer.

added some white ink

Gloopy stuff on his beak before the colour goes on

Now I've put some white and pearlescent into his beak.
The ink is starting to move around now,
looking good so far.

The ink is now contracting and the shapes from the lower layers
are coming through.

It was about this point that my other unfortunate accident occurred.

My room is an absolute mess, with boxes and the old computer

and canvasses everywhere, I have to climb around things to get to my desk

and I had left the desk drawer open.

As I slid past, my jeans got caught on the drawer 

and there was a rather loud ripping sound.

Thanks heavens for iron patches 

as I now have a huge "L" shaped rip in the front of my jeans (argh).

I can't move the canvas until it's really dry

so this is the best shot I can get around all the mess in here.

He is looking a lot better already.

Now onto  finishing the underwater scene.
But that will have to wait until next week (sigh).

Sorry about the photo, the sun decided to come out
just as I took it, plus I'm hopeless with a camera.

Linking up to Paint Party Friday.