All sorts for WOYWW

This week has been a week of 

all sorts. I did heaps of

bits n pieces to try and

get some paintings close to finished.

First to my desk,

it's the usual mess

I have my Doctor Who mug, which is a necessity

for creating, my gorgeous art journal cover,

thanks to LLJ and numerous bits of junk 

that just land there.  

Well you don't think I'd leave it there now do you?

In the centre is the photoshopped print of the next painting

I've just started.  You can see I've marked out

 all the points I need to draw it up on the canvas.

Here are the steps I've done so far.

You start with poo,

add a little cack

and you get a poocackarama!!

Then you can start drawing it up.

I'm still drawing, can't rush these things..

I became an art surgeon this week and 

I performed my first artistic liposuction.

Mrs Cockatoo was complaining that she was was

far too fat,

and I had to agree, so I operated

I removed the excess fat and

re-sculpted her tummy to make a much

slimmer lady.

If anyone wants to lose a few pounds,

and doesn't mind being slapped with a soggy wet cloth

  and dug with a pallette knife,

I'm available and kinda cheap

but never easy!

The cockies were inked today and they look great

but you'll have to take my word for it

as stupid here forgot to take a picture.

I could show you all the ink colours used

cos they are still all over my fingers.

I like to try to write down the colours of ink that were used

 and it's a good way to remember,

I just look at my fingers and write it down.

Even then I still can't get the colour right on the next one.

I think I'm colour theory blind!

I inked some more of my jelly fish

Would you believe this is violet and turquoise, it just won't photograph.

slowly adding tentacles but still a way to go.

There was some other paint slopping as well

but nothing exciting.

Well, that bird isn't going to draw itself,

although I wish it would, so

that's it from me,

now how about you go and visit

Julia's Stamping Ground

and see what's on everyone elses

desk this wednesday.

 

Belly stamping for the 300th WOYWW

My desk is all over this week,

here is where I sit and draw etc

 How I ever get to draw amongst that lot I don't

know but it works.

I just pulled all my stuff out of the box 

from art class today, so stuff all over the floor

and here is the lounge that I am slowly taking over.

I'm really gaining control now (mwa ha ha).

The only spot left is to the right of the room

and that is full with our book cases,

full of recipe books that people bought me over the years

(ha, like that is going to make me cook),

a rowing machine and a treadmill.

As you can see the gym stuff is boxed in by old cupboards

 and never used

but I think that just by them being there you can

lose weight (cough, cough).

I've finished my birdies.

I have finally joined the lovely peeps

on WOYWW and started stamping.

Unfortunately my stamping is vastly different

to the talented ladies I visit.

It all started last week when I

ruined yet another perfectly good top

with gloop and paint.

Hubby gave me an old BBQ apron to use

to save what was left of my now very 

colourful, white top.

So, with apron on, I started to goop my birds

I'm always careful to work from right to left and top to bottom

but some things have to go over others and that's when 

I have a little problem, well rather a big problem really,

 it's my belly.

I was leaning over to do the white of the bird at the top

 and my belly was hanging over the canvas

 which squished the yellow flower on the bottom of the

 canvas, all over the apron.

 That's not a problem I hear you say, 

well I didn't know it was all over the

apron and then went around the house, 

getting a glass of water, 

saying hi to the parrot,

 cleaning some bits in the laundry (you get the idea).

To my horror there were bright yellow

belly stamps all over the house, I spent ages trying

 to clean it off

as it had gone hard by then.

So I might not be a stamper in the ordinary sense

but I am a belly stamper.

Hmm, that could make an interesting canvas,

multi coloured belly stamps but why stop there,

how about bum stamps as well.

Who am I kidding, there isn't a canvas

 big enough for that!!

I was really late with my post last week,

it was on Friday,

so if you want a giggle

have a look here

and you can have a look at the other desks

around the world

on this very special 300th

WOYWW

right here.

Slopping, slapping and dribbling madness.

It's been quite a week

with lots of things to play with.

I've been both in mad scientist mode

and delicate painting mode.

I think the mad scientist is more fun.

Speaking of delicate, I threw a little tanty

in class and was hyperventilating.

Yes that teacher of mine just loves 

to scare the living daylights out of me.

Picture me, almost finished a painting and carefully

 spattering little bits of ink all happy and gentle, 

then up from the depths comes a hand which grabs my brush.

My eyes get wider and then it happens,

spatter, spatter spatter with careless abandon

Panic sets in, screams (just little tanty ones)

and then the hyperventilating starts.

All while there is an evil glean in my teachers eye

as she beats up on my dainty painting.

Down on the floor it's tossed (well, placed carefully really)  

and

oh, that looks great.

The green splots really look good.

My teacher, (yes, I bet you're still giggling at me)

has decided that I'm not a loose woman yet and

I need to be prodded sometimes.  Either that

or she is really just a sadist.....

 

I've been dribbling ink on my jelly fish canvas

I think my camera has cataracts,

as the canvas is the most beautiful turquoise,

violet, blue and green and the photo just looks blah.

The camera seems to pick out the white,

which is really quite subdued on the canvas, weird that.

Now to my fun.

  You may remember this or maybe I didn't show

a pic of this monstrosity

Hmmm, seems I disliked it so much that I didn't take a photo

of it either.  Take my word for it, it was yukky, all brown

and poocacky so I put it away.

Well I got it out and did a mad scientist bit on it and

now I'm starting to like it.

Don't you find you can just go nuts on a canvas you don't like.

  You can see the brownness (yuk) here but I've started

to add gloop squiggles to the background

and here is more gloop, oooh I'm havin so much fun

with this stuff and there is still a load more to do.

I know why scientists, especially the mad ones,

 wear lab coats. 

 I've got the stuff all up the wall (cleaned for the pic) 

and all over my white top.  Yes, I know, why would you wear 

white when you are gooping, it's a blonde thing and

anyway now I have more of a leopard print top

 where  my big belly kept touching it.

I could start a new fashion trend, gooped up tops!!

To keep the momentum going I like to do three or four

 canvasses at once and so I drew up my next project,

 another Mr P.

I'm going to get out some more goop and slop it around

mwa ha ha.

Happy painting all,

linking up to

PPF

 

If you want to see the fabulous work that my

art teacher does, check out her website

here, 

she's fabulous both as an artist and a teacher.

Even if she is evil :)

 

Eyes and poo for WOYWW.

I've been working on my bird this week

I painted the bloomin eye and then had to paint over it and move it to the right. Drives me crazy when that happens.

and here is that desk to date.

 Nothing exciting really, just my paints and my paint pot.

To keep the acrylics damp I put in paper towel and wet it,

then put baking paper over that.  I put the paint on and then 

when I finish for the day I just put the lid on.

The paint stays fresh for weeks but it does pong a bit

 after a while.

This is my actual desk.  Full of stuff, as usual.

In the middle right is a gorgeous piece of mail art

from Terrie in USA.  Thanks so much Terrie and under the

ipad you can see my beautiful journal cover made by

Lunch Lady Jan.

NEWSFLASH.....

TEACHER MAKES STUDENT POO ON CANVAS!!!

Okay, so maybe that's a little over the top but it did happen.

I took my boat canvas to class today and

I was made (yes, De had me in an arm lock)

to put poocack all over my gorgeous bright colours.

But just when I thought all was lost,

she let me play with the bright yellow ink

and it looks fabulous.

Yes, I know, it looks terrible here and half of it is missing.

I used my phone camera and I'm too short

to get my arms up high enough to get it all in.

The ink was still sloppy and it had to stay flat

but you can get an idea of how it looks. 

The poocack is all down the side bits but it makes

the yellow pop.

If you bend your head to the right, stick out your tongue

and stand on one foot, it actually looks pretty good.

I dare you to try it...

That's my desks for this week,

for more desks around the world

go to 

Julia's Stamping Ground

 and join in the fun.

Blobs before my eyes for WOYWW

I've been working on my boat painting

this week and boy is it 

doing my head in.

One minute I hate it then an idea hits

and I like it again, then back to hating it

and so on. 

Right now it's driving me nuts.

I didn't like the top of the painting and came up 

with the idea to turn it into a revetment wall,

as if the boat is adrift in a canal.

It's going to be adrift cos I'm too lazy to

put a rope in.

My desk is small this week,

Just the painting on a movey roundy desk and my ikea

movey roundy thing. 

Why should I move when the painting can.

I have three bags of goop in varying shades of grey

(that is 3 shades, not to be confused with 50 shades).

I wanted to do the wall in bright orange and yellow

but my teacher (and I hate it when she's right) 

insisted on the greys. 

Now it's a matter of playing like I'm icing a cake,

for what seems like an eternity, 

until I reach the other side and a bit wider 

than it is at present.

I can feel some serious back and eye aches coming on.

Before

After

I also lowered the boat in the water

(argh, it's sinking... I wish)

 and added more goop to the water but

there's still more goop to add.

This darn painting will be six feet thick by the time 

I'm finished with it. 

Lastly I roughed in my parrots head and feet.

 

I like to stop once I get to here and

then I can keep looking at it to see if there

are any adjustments needed before I paint it properly.

Short and sweet this week,

cos I've got a date with some goop.

Now you've seen mine

why not hop over to 

Julia's Stamping Ground

and see what's on the other desks

around the world this Wednesday.

Polaroid poop on WOYWW

I'm back at my desk and all alone, at last!!

Here is my desk,

all busy with arty farty things.

To get myself back into the swing of things

I've been doing some sketches in my new sketchbooks.

Gotta love Santa.

One sketchbook has a very special cover, thanks to

the wonderful Lunch Lady Jan.

I love it.

 I decided to do a sketch of my favourite pens.

Yes that is a Doctor Who Sonic Screwdriver pen in the middle :)

It's been a long hot summer but at last there is a breeze

cooling us down a bit here.

I think the heat got to me a bit this year as I did

more than a few crazy things.

One thing was very special.

My girls had been complaining that their 

loo roll holder kept falling off the wall

(it was one of those suction thingys)

 so I decided to get them a new one.

Well of course, it's my motherly duty to give them 

nice things and so I set about finding a

very special loo roll holder and....

voila, the Polaroid Poop machine!!

Yes, I found a loo roll holder in the shape of

a Polaroid camera, complete with lens and buttons.

Big Miss refused to use the loo as she was sure

her bum would end up on the internet.

I just can't understand the kids of today,

no sense of humour.  

I have a giggle every time I pass their loo.

There is also the ipad versus blonde trouble

but I'll leave that for another day.

Today was also my first day back to art class

and I did a little bit more to my birdie painting.

I drew in the birds head and put a little light

on the branches. Still a long way to go but it's 

looking good so far.

I'm keeping it short and sweet,

don't want to overdo it on my first day back.

So why not hop on over to

Julia's Stamping Ground 

and see what's on the other work desks

around the world.

Kitchen in mouth for WOYWW

My desk is just a mess of nothingness

as I am having an art break,

well painting break anyway

as I will be doing little doodles in the many

notebooks I have stashed around the house.

Summer holidays means cricket on the TV (yawn)

and that is where hubby parks himself,

so I tend to draw instead.

Here is may parting doodle for the year.

Done with a plain old ballpoint pen in a note pad.

I drew our little Christmas guys.  They are so cute

 and when you press one's button the others join in 

and sing carols together.

 

Today is the day (sigh)

I say goodbye to my new kitchen.

Little miss is getting my kitchen

put into her mouth.

I had to use my kitchen fund money

to pay for her braces and

I'm still not sure which is

the best investment.

Then again I could make the best of it

and open her teeth

 (they would have been my kitchen cupboard doors)

to put in my pots and pans.

Well I couldn't put my glass ware in there,

she would break that chewing. 

Hey, she has a big mouth, it's always open and loud.

She may put up a bit of a stink

but I need more storage and since she

took my kitchen I think it's a fair compromise.

She also said she wouldn't open her mouth to talk

for the three years the braces are on

(seems she is embarrassed by the braces)

so I'm in heaven.  A peaceful time and

my pots and pans won't fall out if her mouths closed.

 It's win, win all around.

See, sometimes losing something somewhere

is a gain somewhere else.

Mr headless bird has come home after inking 

and I'll finish him in the new year.  

Looking good already.

Our gorgeous little Chico is almost fully healed

and very happy.

This is my last post for the year,

so I'd like to wish all my bloggy friends

a very Merry Christmas

and I'll see you all in the new year.

I'm off to get my kitchen fitted

into Little Miss's mouth.

Now you've seen mine how about a look

at all the other desks around the world

at Julia's Stamping Ground.

Take care.