Hershey!

Remember Hershey? He appeared in a post earlier this summer. I spent a lot of time, most of it unsuccessful, on the larger canvas, so I decided to work on the smaller of the two. I'll revisit the larger canvas soon, but sometimes I need a some successes to counteract one failure. This is a by-product of my short temper. However, Dear Reader, you should be relieved to learn I no longer throw uncooperative canvases out the window or run over them with my Jeep. My grown-up alter ego often intervenes, resulting in canvases finding themselves temporarily stored in closets until they no longer anger me.

Anyway, H-dog is coming along, and should be finished soon. I hope to surprise his owner in a couple of weeks!

What's on my easel?

I need to schedule reminders to remind myself to update this blog! Perhaps I could get a volunteer to nag me about my neglected blog? LOL

These paintings are of my late grandmother's house and of St. Augustine Church, a mere mile away from the house. Both are special to me, and are commissioned paintings by my father. Since my family moved alot while I was a child, Grandmom's house was the constant in my life; in addition, now that Grandmom is gone, I still feel close to her when I am in this house. The church is also important, as my parents were married there, I was baptized there, my husband and I were married there, and we will both end up there (Yes, I've secured two burial plots in the church's cemetery!). Too much information? LOL!

The church is nearly finished:

Grandmom's house is in the early stages:

Portrait of Beowoof the Great

Errrr, better make that Beowoof the Goofy. While a painting is never truly finished, I can safely say I will no longer work on this one! Yay!

Blahg, Blahg, Blahg

I'm so not chatty, it's hard for me to blog frequently; therefore, I will strive to blog weekly. That will be huge for me!

My latest endeavors include a charcoal portrait of a coworker's grandchild and an update on the nearly finished portrait of Beowoof:

Beowoof's nemesis?

So, I am posting two pictures here. One is of my accomplishment today, since it is, afterall, Sketchy Thursday. The other is of my crazy dog, freaking out when he saw the portrait. He has been barking at it for 30 minutes. I guess he's either giving me a harsh critique, or he really thinks it's another dog!

This dog belongs to a friend of mine, but she doesn't know I did it. Let's see if she can recognize her pup:



And, here is my nutty dog, before the 30-minute barking session. Can you see the concern on his face? lmao!

Back in the saddle (again)

Ummmm, yeah, I took another break. I was painting, but forgot about this blog thing. Sorry, Kellie! Did a little travel, and then the holiday put a crimp in my plans as well. I lost both of my painting days last week, since the doggie day-care was closed. Yes, my dog goes to daycare. He is a very hyper-active little thing, and when he's in my studio, bad things happen.

I'm posting some pics of my paintings currently "on the easel," meaning, they are not nearly finished, but some people have shown an interest in seeing paintings in stages, so here goes....

This one is nearly halfway finished, and is a portrait of my baby on the first day I brought him home, when he was only 8 weeks old:



The following two are of the same dog, who belongs to the owner of Beowoof's doggy daycare. Both are in the beginning stages.

Sketchy work

Day two of my blog experience, so let's see if I can babble enough to fill this box.

I've been in an artistic hiatus for.......errr........well, let's say months. I'm not sure if I'm having a block, or cold feet, but it's hard getting back in the groove. I'm off work Thursdays and Fridays, so I've designated every Thursday as laundry-sunbathe-dust-sketch-blog-advertise-day, and Friday as paint-in-my-new-studio-only-emerging-for-lunch-day. Think it will work?

So, this afternnon I've been working on a sketch for a friend, but since I haven't sketched or worked on any drawings in years, my fingers cramp every 30 minutes. Really? Fingers get out of shape? Geeez. I shouldn't be surprised--my entire body is out of shape. lmao