A big oops this WOYWW

Here's my desk this week

I have new goodies.

A camera bag to help stop getting paint on my camera,

A new blank drawing book,

a Doctor Who Watch inside the box,

my thumb (I get bored waiting at school pickup)

and a DVD by my teacher

(more on that later in the post).

 I had one of those weeks.

A blonde week you could say.

On monday I decided to 

ink my pelican canvas 

in my new desk area.

It started okay

But went down hill from there

I kept looking at it thinking 

something isn't right but couldn't put my finger on it.

Then, when it was too late to do anything about it,

I realised I had forgotten to put the white ink on

and it was all dark and clear and yukky

and blah.

 Never fear, my fabulous teacher

came to the rescue.

With a slop here and a dash there

 it's looking better already.

(Sorry, photo taken on my phone)

Still a long way to go and my teacher

did ninety percent of the large scale glooping.

I'm a newbie glooper and not too good 

on the big stuff. It tends to fall off of my

knife and looks more like a pelican poo

than a water ripple.

I often talk about my teacher but I've never

told you about her.

Her name is De Gillett, she's just as mad as me

(that's why we get on so well)

and is a fabulous artist that I aspire to.

If you want to learn to ink like me

go to Under the Arts Tree and you can 

buy the dvd (first in a series).

It's fab and fun and if I can ink

anyone can! 

Just remember to add the white ink!!

I did a bit more to my sunset canvas too

 Actually, looking at this photo,

the horizon looks like it's going up towards the boat.

Oh poo, guess I should go and check the canvas

(hope it's just my bad photography). 

My art progression into the lounge went a little backwards

this week.  It was raining and I had to put my washing

in there, no photos cos you don't need to see

my knickers hanging up!

That's me for this weeks

What's On Your Workdesk Wednesday

now why not hop over to

Julia's Stamping Ground

and check out the other desks.

Heaven is ......

Heaven is

managing to do some painting

on a Sunday afternoon

and streaming

Doctor Who

on the computer.

Life is good.

More glooping for WOYWW

 First up my desk (s)

What's that you say, 

nothing to see here (apart from mess of course)

That's because my plan to take over the living room

is picking up speed (mwa ha ha).

I've now got at least 3/4 of the room and have plans to remove

the furniture one piece at a time

and disperse it among the other rooms.

Then I can move out a few cupboards

in my art room, put them in the lounge

 and steal Big Miss's desk from her bedroom

 (she doesn't use it anyway).

 I will have the perfect inking table

and room to splash about.

They'll never notice

ha ha ha.

I've been a busy girl

in the time I've had to play

in my present art room.

First I drew up and spattered

a pelican canvas

Then yesterday I glooped it

and this morning I glooped it some more.

During this week I also drew up, 

spattered and glooped this sunset

 Now for the fun bit, I get to ink it

after lunch.

I do love a good inking in the afternoon!!

I did learn two things this morning,

well okay I found out the hard way but

I'll probably do the same thing

over and over again.

When glooping with  bright colours

1.  Make sure you put your hair up

BEFORE you start. When that stuff dries

in your hair it really hurts to get it out!

2.  Don't hang out your sheets when

you are half way through glooping!

Luckily my sheets, although white, have pretty

little frangipani flowers on them.

Now they have a lot more petals,

if you get my drift.

I guess I could have said wash your

hands before hanging out the washing

but that would have been sensible

now wouldn't it.

While I figure out how to get that couch 

out of the living room and get it

into the upstairs living room

why not hop over to 

Julia's Stamping Ground

and see what the more

 sane people are doing on their

desks around the world.

Mwa ha ha.

Sorry, been watching too much

Austin Powers.

Also linking to PPF

 

Slops and the usual mess for WOYWW

My room is a bigger mess

than normal as I'm

trying to do a few canvasses together.

There are four in fact, the other two

are on the floor in my other lounge room

(or as I like to say my almost second studio)

My desk is buried 

under the bits and pieces that I'm working on.

I've got pictures and pots and brushes and all sorts.

It's actually organised chaos, kinda.

It's been a bit of a bummer

these last two weeks.

I had a bad batch of canvasses

and lost quite a few paintings.

Yes, I literally lost them, 

they slid right off the canvas.

 The lumpy stuff on the canvas is the gesso

all glooped together as it ran off the canvas.

All seemed fine until I hit the canvas with water

 and then it just let go.

My teacher thinks there must have been some oily film on

them and of course you can't put acrylic over oil.

I even soaped and hosed the canvas and sanded it

but to no avail.  The shop is quite happy to

replace them but I'm not sure I want more of 

this brand now.

I have since bought some linen canvasses

and I'm going crazy trying to get 

some done so I can get them into the shop.

I sold two paintings in the shop and

have the wall space until the end of August

but with the manky canvasses I may not

get any more to the shop in time.

Today was a mad day

with paint flying everywhere,

canvasses laying outside in the sun,

another one all splattered and runny in the room

and one up on the easel.

Moving around can be a bit hard as I tend to find bits of

paint in all sorts of places.

My nice white tiles are now looking

more like a 60's psychedelic painting

and I had plastic down.

I also learned that even though it's cold

don't wear socks in the art room.

I found a trail of footprints out into the kitchen,

guess they'll expect me to clean that up (sigh).

I could always do what the kids do

and say it wasn't me!!

I hope that by next week

I might actually have something

worth looking at.

If all goes to plan, there will be two boat

paintings, a pelican and some segulls

all half done, so fingers crossed these

don't decide to slide off.

That's all I have to show this week,

so why not go on over to 

Julia's Stamping Ground

and see some more productive

desks around the world.