Ink sploshing and a new camera for WOYWW

My desk is covered with paper today.

I've spent a day or so  playing with ideas

for canvasses.

Not quite there yet but with my 

teachers help they are getting just right.

There is something great on my desk as well

Can you see it??

Right in the front!!!

My new camera arrived, yahoo!!

It has shiny bits and lots of knobs and buttons.

(Note the cool cup!!)

No, I don't know how to use it yet and

you have to download the book.

Now what ever happened to paper books,

you know the kind you can flip through

while holding the camera and using it.

I managed to get the book on to the computer 

but the writing is really small and I can't flip

the computer screen like a book,

just no fun :(

Book problems aside,

I (with a large amount of help from my teacher)

inked my parrot and flower picture that 

I glooped last week.

Here it is just done and all squidgy.

 This is fresh ink and it will be

different again when I get to class next week.

That's why ink scares me so much,

you never know what you'll finish up with

but I like it so far.

Oh, and you're not going mad if you

can't find the birds head.

It's not there yet.

I'm going to paint it in detail

when the background is complete.

I've started my next canvas

but more on that next week.

Just think jelly,

no, not wobbly on a plate 

blobby in the ocean.

Lots and lots of blobby.

Gotta love a lot of blobby.

Now you've seen my craziness 

for Wednesday, hop over to

Julia's Stamping Ground and

see what's been happening

on other desks around

this big old blobby world.

 

 

Mr Snore strikes again for WOYWW

I didn't have the best time at art class today.

 I'm so tired I couldn't concentrate.

I added some gloop and made the feathers

and the branches this week.

Yep, two hours and all I could

manage was a few feathers and

a branch or two.

Why am I tired?

Well it's exam time

at school again and

 Mr Snore 

struck again.

Whenever hubby is stressed or

has a lot on his plate,

the noisy Mr Snore comes out.

You see, hubby is a teacher

(maths, oh the humiliation)

 and exams are always the culprits.

This man can snore in every 

conceivable position

and even the hardest jab in the ribs doesn't

alter his pitch or volume.

Is it me or are men totally

oblivious to the outside world when they sleep??

I spent half the night trying to shut him up

and the other trying to ignore

the freight train that was in our bedroom.

Hence, eyelids droopy and operating in 

slow motion today.

My desk has a few things on it this week.

I decided to draw and paint some of the

flowers that I had received over the 

last few weeks and turn them into cards.

 I painted the orange flowers large and the pink flowers

were just a small size.  The main reason for the painting was

 to finally use my new water colours

 and they are fabulous.

You just have to touch the pan with water and

the colour is brilliant and strong.

Now all I have to do is to cut them up and make

them into cards. 

 My teacher has been giving us drawing lessons

and I used the technique to draw the flowers.

Then I drew it in pen

 

and coloured it with the paints.

It worked quite well but I had run out

of matte photo paper and used

smooth water colour paper to print 

out the cards.  The paper

absorbed a lot of the colour 

and it is a bit washed out but still

a nice effect.

That's all I did last week,

not a lot but I'm getting back to it

slowly.

I have to find a subject for my 

next canvas but I can't 

think of a thing right now.

Now you've seen my slim pickings,

why not head on over to 

Julia's Stamping Ground

and see what's on every one elses desks.

I'm taking a sock to bed tonight,

I think you may know what I plan to do with it 

(mwa ha ha).

Birds and sadness for WOYWW

Sorry I've been missing

for a few weeks,

it was with good reason.

My wonderful mum passed away

a few weeks ago

and it's been a sad time for us.

Luckily my brother came out

for a visit from
Canada and got to spend

two lovely weeks with mum.

I'm now back to painting

as She'll send a bolt of lightening

down if I don't.

Here is my usual messy desk

this week

 You can see my cool Dalek

that little miss gave me for 

Christmas

and a pillow that my brother gave me.

Cheeky devil!!

You can also see my 

Loch Nessie that Neesie sent me

and my Cotman watercolours

that I still haven't opened (sigh).

I think I've finished my last birdie painting

but still not sure if I'm happy with it

Does it look too yellow?

I've started a new canvas in class

and yes it's another bird!!

 

 

I've actually also done the feathers and 

the leaves

but dummy here forgot

to take more photos

and it's at class (doh).

I piped the flowers etc on

with paint mixed into

gloop (texture paste)

and then it will be inked,

painted and glazed.

On a bright note,

I've cashed in my flybuys points

and bought a new camera.

I can only hope it's blonde proof

and when it arrives I can finally

take a decent photo.

Here's hoping.

That's it for me,

so why not hop on over to 

Julia's Stamping Ground

and see what's on everyones

workdesk this wednesday.