update on little dog and a new piece

Hello folks! I have another update on my little dog. I layered goldenrod on top of the violet blue bits in the background.
I also started a new after dark piece today, 9x13 inches on black art spectrum colourfix paper (that's a mouthful, ain't it?) , done with Prismacolor pencils.




I decided that I had enjoyed doing "Lovers Lane" (see here and here) so much that I just had to do another after dark piece. Warning: colored pencils are indeed addictive. ;)

pensive and little dog update

Hi everyone!
I have an update on the little dog today. Also, I have a new piece I did this afternoon, 4x4 inches on Bristol Smooth, done with Prismacolor pencils, called "Pensive", which I have below as a work in progress. The colors I used for it are, sand, black, light umber, sepia, dark purple, rosy beige, white, salmon pink, hot pink, blush pink, violet blue, tuscan red, goldenrod, crismson red, pale vermillian, process pink, beige.
...and that's it for this evening!
Happy blogging!

Coming in for the home stretch

Hi everyone! :)
I'm coming in for the home stretch of my little black and tan terrier portrait. I've finished his body, and so I'll probably begin on the back ground this evening.

..and here are the two updates on the Van Gogh piece. I decided to paint over the grass and try again. I also smoothed out the tree to try the Van Gogh-esque specks again.

Oh yeah, and yesterday I knit a little more on my scarf....
...and baked some calzones and a loaf of white bread. Mmmmm!
Before.....
...and after...

...and my big beautiful loaf that weighed 500 hundred pounds...

Oh, and have you heard of my two lovely rescued kittens? Check previous post to hear the whole story. Here are a couple of the photos I've taken of them.



Aren't they cute? Ahh, if only they stayed that cute and that small.......;)

More of black and tan

Hello! ;)
Here are some updates on the little dog portrait. I've been using the same colors (see previous post) adding Lemon yellow as well. I will show an update on my Van Gogh painting in my next post. You can also see more detailed posts on the wetcanvas colored pencil forum.






















Van Gogh tomorrow!

little dog again and Van Gogh

Hi there!
Here's the Van Gogh update that I promised, and a few updates on my little dog portrait.
What have I learned about Van Gogh? With his particular style, you either make it look good, or really, really, ugly....







...and here's the updates on the little dog...

















.....and one more....






















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More little dog

Sorry folks, I got preoccupied with taking three of our cats, Tamlin, Vinegar, and Mousie to the vet, so I didn't get around to Van Gogh today.
But I did get to do a little more on my Irish black and tan terrier portrait this afternoon. The colors I've been using are black grape, black cherry, tuscan red, black, white, violet-blue, light umber, sepia, beige, non-photo blue, and goldenrod. I've been very careful with this particular portrait-encouraging myself to work more slowly, more carefully, and most important with this portrait-treat the hair as bits and pieces instead of overhairing it by doing thousands of messy single hair strands.



It was a late night for me last night, so that's it for this evening-more sleep=more art. ;)

Van Gogh and a little dog

Hello everyone!
I started on the Van Gogh project yesterday, with acrylics on a canvas board a little bigger than 11x14 inches.

Here are the steps which I've done so far, which I so patiently and diligently took pictures of for you, (okay, okay, maybe for me, too, ;) ).

Here is the first step. The underpainting. What this does is make the colors you put on top look fuller and more saturated. Red for green, green for red, blue for yellow, and orange for blue. This is what we call the ugly stage.

Now I've slathered on lots of green, blue for sky*, and I've made basic values on my focal point, the cedar tree.
* I'll add more layers of sky as I go, which takes the muddiness away.
Ahhh, now the fun part. I took yellow paint while the green of the grass was still tacky and I splotched it all over it. It's starting to look vaguely Van Goghish.



Now I've added artsy blotchiness to the tree as well.



Here's the beginning setup.



Here is the latest update. I've begun forming the clouds, I dotted white everywhere, which I think I'll probably take out again (ah, the wonders of paint!) because the effect of the that color is too cold.

And here is my other project. It's 10x10 inches on bristol smooth paper, done with prismacolor pencils. I decided to do it all over again, because the hair wasn't right, the layering, I just decided that I could render it better then that.
So here is my friend's dog- again.
To hear more details about how I did this, check out wetcanvas colored pencil forums.
Check my blog out tomorrow for more of this little dog and my Van Gogh project, and don't forget to check up on the Van Gogh project started by Maggie Stiefvater at greywarenart.blogspot.com ( this is the link to her starting Van Gogh post, click here to get her latest to date post.
Thanks for reading!

learning sketches and Van Gogh

I'm back! As promised, here are the sketches that I made recently. So here they are:
...and lastly, here is a random Van Gogh sketch that I made...
Which brings me to the artist-a-month project that Maggie Stiefvater is doing on her blog, greywarenart.blogspot.com, which is, this month, Van Gogh. Do me a favor and check out this talented artist's blog.
I myself have decided to go for the Van Gogh project. I have a vague idea in mind-and no, no, you'll have to wait until next post to hear. ;)