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.

Ink sploshing and a new camera for WOYWW

My desk is covered with paper today.

I've spent a day or so  playing with ideas

for canvasses.

Not quite there yet but with my 

teachers help they are getting just right.

There is something great on my desk as well

Can you see it??

Right in the front!!!

My new camera arrived, yahoo!!

It has shiny bits and lots of knobs and buttons.

(Note the cool cup!!)

No, I don't know how to use it yet and

you have to download the book.

Now what ever happened to paper books,

you know the kind you can flip through

while holding the camera and using it.

I managed to get the book on to the computer 

but the writing is really small and I can't flip

the computer screen like a book,

just no fun :(

Book problems aside,

I (with a large amount of help from my teacher)

inked my parrot and flower picture that 

I glooped last week.

Here it is just done and all squidgy.

 This is fresh ink and it will be

different again when I get to class next week.

That's why ink scares me so much,

you never know what you'll finish up with

but I like it so far.

Oh, and you're not going mad if you

can't find the birds head.

It's not there yet.

I'm going to paint it in detail

when the background is complete.

I've started my next canvas

but more on that next week.

Just think jelly,

no, not wobbly on a plate 

blobby in the ocean.

Lots and lots of blobby.

Gotta love a lot of blobby.

Now you've seen my craziness 

for Wednesday, hop over to

Julia's Stamping Ground and

see what's been happening

on other desks around

this big old blobby world.

 

 

Mr Snore strikes again for WOYWW

I didn't have the best time at art class today.

 I'm so tired I couldn't concentrate.

I added some gloop and made the feathers

and the branches this week.

Yep, two hours and all I could

manage was a few feathers and

a branch or two.

Why am I tired?

Well it's exam time

at school again and

 Mr Snore 

struck again.

Whenever hubby is stressed or

has a lot on his plate,

the noisy Mr Snore comes out.

You see, hubby is a teacher

(maths, oh the humiliation)

 and exams are always the culprits.

This man can snore in every 

conceivable position

and even the hardest jab in the ribs doesn't

alter his pitch or volume.

Is it me or are men totally

oblivious to the outside world when they sleep??

I spent half the night trying to shut him up

and the other trying to ignore

the freight train that was in our bedroom.

Hence, eyelids droopy and operating in 

slow motion today.

My desk has a few things on it this week.

I decided to draw and paint some of the

flowers that I had received over the 

last few weeks and turn them into cards.

 I painted the orange flowers large and the pink flowers

were just a small size.  The main reason for the painting was

 to finally use my new water colours

 and they are fabulous.

You just have to touch the pan with water and

the colour is brilliant and strong.

Now all I have to do is to cut them up and make

them into cards. 

 My teacher has been giving us drawing lessons

and I used the technique to draw the flowers.

Then I drew it in pen

 

and coloured it with the paints.

It worked quite well but I had run out

of matte photo paper and used

smooth water colour paper to print 

out the cards.  The paper

absorbed a lot of the colour 

and it is a bit washed out but still

a nice effect.

That's all I did last week,

not a lot but I'm getting back to it

slowly.

I have to find a subject for my 

next canvas but I can't 

think of a thing right now.

Now you've seen my slim pickings,

why not head on over to 

Julia's Stamping Ground

and see what's on every one elses desks.

I'm taking a sock to bed tonight,

I think you may know what I plan to do with it 

(mwa ha ha).

Birds and sadness for WOYWW

Sorry I've been missing

for a few weeks,

it was with good reason.

My wonderful mum passed away

a few weeks ago

and it's been a sad time for us.

Luckily my brother came out

for a visit from
Canada and got to spend

two lovely weeks with mum.

I'm now back to painting

as She'll send a bolt of lightening

down if I don't.

Here is my usual messy desk

this week

 You can see my cool Dalek

that little miss gave me for 

Christmas

and a pillow that my brother gave me.

Cheeky devil!!

You can also see my 

Loch Nessie that Neesie sent me

and my Cotman watercolours

that I still haven't opened (sigh).

I think I've finished my last birdie painting

but still not sure if I'm happy with it

Does it look too yellow?

I've started a new canvas in class

and yes it's another bird!!

 

 

I've actually also done the feathers and 

the leaves

but dummy here forgot

to take more photos

and it's at class (doh).

I piped the flowers etc on

with paint mixed into

gloop (texture paste)

and then it will be inked,

painted and glazed.

On a bright note,

I've cashed in my flybuys points

and bought a new camera.

I can only hope it's blonde proof

and when it arrives I can finally

take a decent photo.

Here's hoping.

That's it for me,

so why not hop on over to 

Julia's Stamping Ground

and see what's on everyones

workdesk this wednesday.