This is a WIP work in progress image of my big eye rococo maiden with lovebirds in her hair. The original painting is duo oils on a wood panel cut to fit a vintage frame. I've started on underpainting her face and neck. Sometimes I am enamored of this soft focus stage, but I enjoy taking things to another level, so the painting continues...
"Unremembered Title" painting 16x20 inches, acrylics on panel, framed
"Patchwork Princess" 11x14 inches, duo oils on wood
I've concluded that there's no way I'm finishing this painting in time for Dia de los Muertos. I've started to block in the feathers, hair, and neck for this 16"x20" duo oils Dia de los Muertos / Day of the Dead painting, but this is all just underpainting and I still have her face, headress, and dress to block in before I even begin overpainting. I wish I could finish it in the time allotted, but I know that even if I had my schedule entirely clear, which I do not, I'm just too slow of a painter to manage. Fortunately I do have another one that's on the wall that I'll try to share with you in celebration on that day...
It was one of those weeks with a lot of errands and not a lot of painting, so here's a bit of silliness and hopefully this week will be a better week... After an appointment, we stopped for a bit of retail therapy, which of these goodies do you think is destined for Alex?
"Argus" 11x14 inches, acrylics on canvas
I started this painting as a prequel for one with the Greek goddess Hera that will included a peacock companion. I'm still in the sketching stages for that one though... In person, this original painting has some iridescent paints that shimmer in the eyes of the feathers.
This painting is available for adoption, if you're interested please feel free to contact me with an offer. If you're more interested in a print and you'd like to be put on the list to be informed when I'm able to release prints, please let me know.
This is my "Xochitl Study" that I did for the Dia de los Muertos/ Day of the Dead Mujeres Valientes Exhibit at the Ontario Museum of History & Art in 2021. It was a year when I didn't feel I'd be able to finish the full sized painting that I started for them so I submitted this colored pencil drawing on toned paper. I bring it up this year because my schedule was too complicated to even ask them to consider me this year for their show, but I'm hoping to complete this year the painting that this drawing was a study for that I started for them so many years ago...
I'll try to post a wip work in progress image of my Xochitl painting in the not too distant future. Please look forward to it.
This is a WIP work in progress image of my big eye scarecrow fantasy girl. The original painting is 11"x14" duo oils on wood. I've worked on her eyes and face a bit since you've seen her last. I still need to do more with her hat, hair, nose, lips, and eye details. This is my first time painting heterochromia eyes...
This is a WIP work in progress image of my big eye rococo maiden with lovebirds in her hair. The original painting is duo oils on a wood panel cut to fit a vintage frame. I've only worked on the background at this point, a soft yellow that lets the panel shine through a bit. It's difficult to make out the details at this point, maybe next time I paint on one of these wood panels that Alex's father cut to fit vintage frames for me, I will gesso the panel first instead of just using GAC-100 to seal in the sketch, but I'll see how it goes with this painting...
Happy Thanksgiving! It occurs to me that I don't have a lot of fall art, but I did take this photo at Descanso Gardens of a very grate...
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