Bitza week for WOYWW

This last week has been a bitsa week.

I've done bitsa this and bitsa that

but nothing much of anything at all.

Firstly for those who don't want to 

suffer through my ramblings

and multitude of photos,

here is my desk.

 Same old mess

but something is different

 Little Miss used my computer and

lost my Doctor Who desk top pic

(ooh the inhumanity)

but she redeemed herself by

creating an even better one.

How cool is that, now my Dalek has a friend!!

I've been playing with a few canvasses this week,

one I love, one is just plain nuts

and one is yuk (at the moment).

-The one I love-

My jelly fish have been appearing out of the 

ocean depths.

 

I've been trying to think of a good title

for when it's finished.

What do you think of 

Attack of the Jellygobbles??

-The one that's just plain nuts-

Mr Pelican is home

but far from finished.

Stupid here forgot to add white paint

to the white gloopy stuff.

It dries clear you see and of course

now he looks as though he's 

a dirty little grub, which of course he may be

especially if he is part of my mad family.

- The yuk one-

I'm learning tonal colour and so I have to start

with muddy (proper term for pookack) colours

and move up to brights.

I just can't get past those icky poo colours.

Ewww, makes me shudder just looking at it.

I tell you, how on earth am I supposed to get

glorious bright colours out of that poop.

I trust my teacher but this time I'm not so sure.

Well that's my week so far,

sorry for all the pictures and ramblings Julia.

Now why don't you hop across to

Julia's Stamping Ground and

check out other desks around the world.

I bet they don't have poopy pookack

paintings!!

Birdy has a head for WOYWW

At last my poor little bird

is headless no more.

As well as his head I've done some

tinkering.  I've repainted the green feathers

and re inked them and darkened, with inks,

the area above his tail, to make it disappear a little.

Still lots more to do, re brighten the flowers,

give him a foot before he falls off the canvas

and do the highlights on his face,

but I'm getting there.

My desk has some goodies on it this week.

My hubby was over in Scotland with school rugby

in the Easter holidays and he brought

back some Scottish things and some wonderful things

 I'm not the only one excited by Doctor Who goodies,

Nessie was so excited that she is swooning in the back ground.

Gotta love a hubby that knows what you like :)

 

 This is above my window and I keep forgetting to

show it, my prize from Lunch Lady Jan

has a permanent home above my desk.

It's Christmas every day now!

 

Here's the wide shot of my WIP's.

See that blah canvas in the middle,

this morning it was like this

 

Then it went to this

 

and ended up like this

Ewww!!  I have to get the back ground all cacky

so that the birds I'm going to put on really stand out.

I'm not convinced it's going to work but my teacher

said to trust her, hmmm.

On top of all this weirdness my crazy pelican is

even crazier.

 

 I hate how the beak turned out but I am going to 

use glazes to correct the bad smooshing.

Sigmond's (that's the pelican) dark feathers 

are actually purple so the whole thing ties in,

I just can't get the photo right with the phone camera.

This will either be an epic fail

or a crazy fun painting, not sure which yet.

That's pretty much all of interest I've done

this week, so now you've seen mine

hop over to Julia's

Stamping Ground 

and see what's been happening on

other desks around the world.

 

 

 

Slops of brightness for WOYWW

I've done quite a bit 

considering it's school holidays.

Here's a pic of the desk area right now

Just my glasses on the desk but

lots on my easels.

I had a scary but fun time

inking up the blue canvas

you can see my post on it

here, if you want a look,

and here is the one on the table

in quick stages

 Gesso mixed with paint in a mid tone

Slop it anywhere on the canvas,

that bit's easy!

It will be two lorikeets and flowers

(ho hum, not again!).

This is the inky mess up close

It will be the jellyfish one

and I can see jellies in the background already.

Today in class I slopped brightly

coloured texture paste onto my

pelican picture.

Talk about heart attack material.

I was hyperventilating and jumping around,

then next minute I'm holding my head.

It was not a good look for me or the painting.

 This is before attacking it

 here it is slopped and blopped.

I took the photo with my daggy phone 

so the colours are not great.

It's really bright in real life which makes it

even more scary.

I'm doing a practise in tonal painting

so rather than copy the photo's colours

I'm replacing it with colours in the same

tones (well that's what it's meant to be).

  It's soooo hard!!!

Goodness knows what this will end up like

but I'll push on regardless.

Why don't I just stick with what I know??

I must be mad!!

That's my nutter of a desk for this week

now why not pop over to 

Julia's Stamping Ground

and see what the slightly more

sane people have on their desks this week.

Inky mess

The day started off well.

I organised my room, took out the other canvasses

that I'm working on (didn't want to splatter them)

covered the floor with plastic and a sheet

and put my table right in the middle 

of my little room.

Canvas has been prepped and ready,

little rolly drawer thingy out just a bit and

ink put into little bowls with 

syringes at the ready.

Take a deep breath and squirt.

That's where it all fell apart.

I had ink going all over the place, propping little bits

to stop the ink running off the canvas and onto the floor.

Then the hard part, using a spray bottle to move the ink

around the canvas.

Not too much water or it will turn into a blobby mess

and not too little or it will just sit there and look terrible.

There I was running round and round the canvas

as if I'm doing some sort of crazy ritual dance

(it's alright the neighbours know I'm nuts)

squirting here and there and all the time 

I could hear my teacher's voice saying

once the water's on leave it for ten minutes, ten minutes!

Yeah right, do you know how long ten minutes is when you're 

in a panic, not a chance of that today lady.

Then the phone rang.. should I answer it??

Can't stand that ringing sound so picked it up

and it's dad.  Can you drop me up the Chinese for lunch?

He doesn't have a licence any more so I had to say yes.

It was a blessing in disguise as I left the canvas alone

for more than ten minutes and it came out fine.

This is it all wet and runny

from up on a chair and

here it is this morning

I don't know what all the panic was about.

This is the background for a jellyfish painting.

If you look closely you can see jellyfish in there now, of course

I planned it that way (cough, cough).

I'm going to bring some jellyfish out with paints and the main 

jellyfish will be made of texture paste and

 anything else I can find to play with.

Now I just have to scrub the floor (sigh)

that stuff splatters further than you think.

It's even out the door and I forgot to put 

my old painting jeans on and the peach coloured

pants I was wearing are now spattered blue.

Guess I've gained a new pair of painting pants,

so it wasn't all bad!

Linking up to PPF for the first time in ages.

Mess really is more for WOYWW

As the title suggests,

I now have the proof that 

Mess is More

and here it is

That is a photo of our shirts

that we wear to class and

I've added a few more blobs along 

the way.

Keep this in mind when I show my desk

this week as you will see I'm the

'morest' person on the planet.

So to my desk and surrounds

 I'm getting ready to ink a canvas that I've prepped.

Now I'm not a junky, those syringes are for the ink.

Just love squirting that stuff around. 

There are bottles of ink and ink extender,

some pictures with lots of notes for

the canvasses I'm working on at the moment,

and the usual bits and pieces.

WARNING:The following photos could

cause distress to neat and tidy people!

 This mess is to the left of my desk.

 Here's the right hand side

and this mess is behind me.

Every day I wake up and hope that I've been visited

by the tidy fairies

but they never seem to come.

Guess they can't find their way in.

Last week I mentioned a canvas

involving jelly, well here is the start of it

It's going to be a school (or is that a blob?)

of jellyfish.

This is the canvas I'll be inking hopefully

tomorrow  and here's a quick pic

of the bird I inked last week.

I still have quite a lot to do,

like giving the poor bird a head!

I'm working on four canvasses at once

but I've got a lot of photos already

and I don't want to get on Julia's bad side

so that's all for now.

Why am I showing you my mess,

well Julia from The Stamping Ground

asked me and anyone who wants to play to.

Go here to see the other probably tidier desks

Have a great week,

I have some water to draw.