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