Lettuce Soap for WOYWW

It's been a while since I 

WOYWW'ed

but nothing has changed really,

I'm still a grot and here's the proof.

 

Stuff everywhere as usual.

In the back you can see my latest fun toy.

The square grid to hold my paint brushes

it's great cos I don't have to put them in my mouth now.

Oh the times I've put the wrong end in or

the paint was up the handle and it got my mouth.

I know it's poisonous but what doesn't

kill you makes you stronger and boy am I strong!

I visited a dear friend last week and she gave me

some gorgeous gifts.

One was a teapot and since she is a fabulous artist

seeing her studio inspired me to pick up

my pencil and start drawing again.

 

I'm a bit rusty but I'm pleased with it.

This friend is as mad as me and she understands

my sick sense of humour, so the next gift

was me all over.

Yes, you read it correctly 

Lettuce Soap!!

You could take this a few ways,

it could be to wash lettuce

or it could be a human soap.

I prefer the latter as it would be hard to soap up

a lettuce leaf.

Using lettuce soap is in itself

fraught with danger

as I have a chook

(that's a chicken for non Australians)

and now she is looking at me

with a strange glint in her eyes.

I'm sure she can smell the lettuce 

and is just waiting for the right moment

to strike with that killer beak.

Have to wonder if Tracey thought this through

when she bought it 

or is it her evil sense of humour.

If her next painting is of someone

running around a backyard with a chook chasing her

I'll know.

So while I still have my fingers and toes

attached, here is what I'm playing with

at the moment

  It's at the poo kack stage but will be two

cockatoos eventually.

I put them together and got the sense that the one

in the tree (that you can't see yet)

is saying "And where have you been?"

I'll have to try and get that sheepish 

look in the blokes eyes.

That's my week,

why not pop over to 

Julia's Stamping Ground

and check out the other desks

around the world

this cold and windy 

Wednesday.

It pays to trust your teacher.

I've been locked away

painting like mad and

I've finally almost

very nearly

finished my paintings for the show.

Now I know it's only three paintings

but considering I used to be so

podantic that it took over a year

to paint one,

I think I'm doing well.

My icky poo canvas was the last

one I had to finish

and it is almost there

just the sides, hanger and sealer to go.

Remember icky poo

Blah, it still makes me shudder,

well after squillions of layers

of paint and glazes

and trusting my teacher

(that was hard)

this is the finished product.

It seems there is an element of truth

in the icky poo background making the

main subject look brighter.

Of course I knew it would look like this

from the very beginning

(cough, cough).

It does look better from a distance

as the background appears

to have more depth.

 But I like the cheeky birds up close too.

I also did another painting ready to go

to a local shop, it's nearly finished too.

It started like this (yuk)

 After a lot of texture paste and ink

it went to this

 Then with a lot of paint and ink to this

and presently it looks like this

This was taken on my phone so it's not a great

shot but there is sure a lot of depth

building in this one.

It's still a bit dark for me at the moment.

I've finished my jellyfish painting as well.

 There are still some blobs left

unjellified, just so that people

can find their own jellies.

The painting is far more vibrant than the photo

I just can't seem to capture the colours

so you'll just have to believe me.

Now I just hope someone buys them

cos I've spent a fortune on more

canvasses and art goodies,

just couldn't help my self.

 I've started an equally
icky poo background
in turquoise and orange.
When it's all blended together
you get a sort of an orange
meets TNT over the water effect.
Not too pretty I can tell you.

Somehow this is going to be
two cockatoos  in a tree.
Trust your teacher, just keep saying it,
trust your teacher.....

I'm running out of ideas for paintings.
I tried the old stand by of
a still life with flowers in a vase
but of course no matter how I tried
it was sooo BORING.
May have to think of flowers
with a twist somehow.

Linking up to PPF