Swooshing paint for WOYWW

Boy have I had fun this week.

I painted my birds eyes, beaks

and feet. 

I couldn't see the birds feet in the photo

so I used the next best thing,

a live model

 and here he is.

My Charlie was very obliging and held

his little tootsies up everytime I needed them.

He wasn't too sure about the large birds

behind him.

I'm really pleased with how the

feet and

 faces turned out.

Here's the overall this morning

before class.

Thanks for your help with the comments

on red blobs in the background

I took them on board and 

didn't go with them.

Next came the glazing in class,

boy that was fun and scary

all at once.

 I had to leave my canvas at class

as the glaze was still wet

so these pictures were taken on my 

phone camera.

The fact you are about to see these

pictures is a miracle in itself.

I spent ages and lots of swearing,

tongue poking and yelling

but I managed to get the pictures from 

my phone to the computer.

Then it took me an hour to find where

the pictures were on the computer

but finally here they are..

This doubles as a picture of my desk,

it's at class but I forgot to take a photo

of the one at home before I actually 

cleaned it up, yep, I actually

cleaned up a bit.

I can't show a photo of a tidy desk,

that would ruin my reputation!!

The phone doesn't capture

the colours well, it's 

really bright and wonderful.

I still have more glazing to go.

My teacher said I need to do a purple layer

and I want to fix up the big wing,

it looks a bit too blobby.

 All in all I'm liking this more

and more.

Well, that's my sorta desk

for this week.

 Hop on over to 

Julia's Stamping Ground

and see other desks 

around the world

this wednesday.

P.S:  I hope all in the UK and Europe are okay after that

nasty looking storm this week.

 

 

Birds are appearing for WOYWW

I've been busy, busy

but not with art,

hence no post last week.

I have done a little in class 

and today, so here is my progress so far.

You may remember my splodges

from a few weeks ago,

here they are.

Now don't tell me you still can't see the two lorikeets,

you really should get your glasses checked!!

Okay, for those of you who are not versed in 

the art of splodges, here are the painted

versions.

 Of course they are still in the very early stages.

I'm working on the eyes, beaks and feet

at the moment.  

The paint is very loose, so that when I

glaze over the birds the colour will fill

in between the painted bits

and hopefully give it a three dimensional 

look, fingers are crossed!

This photo will give you an idea of the size

 of the canvas, it's 30" x 36", so not small. 

My desk is the usual mess

with bits plonked everywhere.

I honestly don't know how I manage

 to find the paint some days.

 

 

These are the faces so far,

I'm still tweeking them but happy 

how they are turning out.

One bird is has just taken off and the other

is hanging onto a branch,

which I still haven't painted,

and is about to fly off.

I'm thinking of glazing bright red into

the background to represent

bottle brush flowers but I'm not sure if that

will detract from the birds.

Anyone have any suggestions???

Well, I'd better fly

(excuse the pun), you know the drill,

dinner to make, animals kids to feed,

plus the pets.

Now you've seen mine why not

hop on over to 

Julia's Stamping Ground 

and see all the other desks around the world

this workdesk wednesday.

 

 

 

Back to normal abnormal for WOYWW

I was awol last week 

as I hurt my back.

Now it would be great if I could say that I 

pulled a muscle while

swinging from a chandelier in

in my bedroom 

but unfortunately

it was rather more boring than that.

I sat in my car and twisted around to get something

from the back seat and pulled a muscle,

yawn, how boring is that.

I think I'll go with the chandelier story

makes life sound much more exciting :)

I couldn't move on tuesday and wednesday

and my rotten family made me 

wander around Ikea all day thursday.

I got even, I bought lots of goodies.

My desk is also a bore this week,

still that rotten fish painting.

Here's my desk this week.

I have very gloopy glaze in the white pots.

I wasn't happy with the white reflections on the water

so I took to it with a wet cloth and rubbed it all off,

only trouble was, half the underpainting came off as well.

So I had to repaint half of it and today I reglazed

the green and white.

I'm still not happy with it

but I'm sick of the site of it,

so it's been unceremoniously

dumped sideways up on the wall to dry.

 

I just hope the pond water doesn't drip on my floor!!

Now I look at it, the darn thing looks

better from this angle,

I could call it fish swimming up hill.

Well, I hope things will be more exciting next week

as I've been playing with the birds in class,

of course I forgot my camera, so no photo.

Next week I'll take a photo

and possibly I'll do some drawing,

I feel the need, the need to scribble.

If you're still awake,

sorry it was boring this week,

hop on over to Julia's

Stamping Ground

and find some exciting things

on desks around the world

this wednesday.

 

 

Having one of those weeks.

I'm having one of those weeks!

This will be short and sweet 

as I've put my back out,

gee, I must be getting old (eeek!!).

Sitting here in agonotitis (that's nutter talk for pain!)

No art done this week,

I hope normal service will be resumed next week!!

Well, that's as normal as I can be,

which isn't all that normal really,

so maybe I should just say,

I will be posting abnormally next week.

Wow, I'm not even on pain killers

and I sound more spaced out than normal!

You never know, I might do some art on thursday 

and post about it, but then maybe not.

Okay, okay, I'm going now.

So I'll post when I can

hopefully with some art to show.

Bummer, I can't put on my 'Egbert writing' picture

as I'm on the laptop and not my computer

 and it hurts to get up,

so you'll have to tune in for the next post

 to see Egbert.

This just isn't my day!