Makes you catch your breath

Take a look at this painting from Gritty Art Studio. So beautiful.

Recent Productions

Here's what I've been up to. This flower painting-ish thingy was fun to do even if it looks little kid-like.


And this is what I'm calling my sad monkey. Done for my sister in law at her request, it looks dreadful. Worse than dredful really. But I don't have the time to make a new one before our visit so she's getting it anyway.

How to Ruin a Painting

Remember this?
I ruined it. I thought it was too dull, and had the genius idea to do a silhouette over top of it in a translucent gold. Seemed like a good idea at the time...

Well the goldish silhouette just looked like a dirty smudge. (Note to self - Freezer paper stencils don't work so great over painted canvas). So I decided that I would just modge pode the silhouette cut out over the painting as a last minute attempt to salvage it. Here's the awful results:



Blech! Oh well - it was a learning experience.

Painting and Old Toys

Here's my most recent painting. Its not done, but I have a plan! I think a silhouette done in a faint wash of color over it would look cool. Will update when it is done! Right now it looks too much like a 70's placemat for my taste.

And look what I found in the top of my parent's bard. Fashion plates! I loved these when I was little and I'll love them even more now. Fun!

Etsy Purchase!

I recently purchases this fab painting from Stiletto Heights shop on etsy. I love it!

Its called Her Gypsy Soul. Perfect, right? The artist also has a terrific blog at http://stilettoheights.blogspot.com.

Now I just have to decide where she's gonna live...

New Painting and ATC cards

Here's my last painting. I like it enough to possibly keep. Its rather large.




And new ATCs. I need to figure out how to get better pictures of these without using a scanner (cause I hate using scanners).

Paintings

Okay, I'm not showing the finished finished projects (for reasons explained below), but here's the canvases I've been working on. I'm pretty pleased with them.

Here's a work in progress. I like the bright colors and the shapes (these are very similiar to my doodles when I'm bored).The more complete one refuses to load so maybe I'll try to post it again tomorrow. They're no where near as ornate or as cleanly done as the ones that inspired me, but I'm having fun doing them. They'll look cute in my hallway.