Horse Portrait WIP
So here’s the latest on my work in progress (WIP) on Catch’s portrait. I am totally loving working with watercolor pencils again. But it is really kinda of hard on my hands. The callus that was on my index finger from years of being a pencil artist, has all but disappeared in the past two years of working in oil pastel. Maybe it’s because I am getting older and my joints can’t take the stress like before. Or maybe it is just because I am going at it full tilt, and working 4-7 hours at a whack every day, (having too way much fun to stop.) But my hands are all achy and crampy. Sigh.
Anyway, here’s the worst bit. So I go and stand by my husband who is working on the computer, and say something similar to the above paragraph, but with a whining intonation. He briefly glances at me. I hold up my hand in a claw-like gesture like I’m some B-movie villian, to impress upon him the severity of my condition. Mike, never one to pander to my whining, rolls his eyes, looks back to the computer and says “Well babe, there’s a reason you switched to oil pastels.” Humph! Maybe I’ll go talk to the cat.
Well, I for one know exactly what you are talking about when your hand hurts. That means you are really into what you are doing and that you are not even aware of your physical condition. I also understand the lack of pitty from the other half. AUGH !!! At least he could have said, “Oh, poor Baby!!!!”
As for the painting? I think I like it the best of all, I can hardly wait to see it in the flesh. If the lady doesn’t like it I will take it for sure
Have a Blessed day, Barb
Hi Barb, Yeah, I think about you whenever my hand hurts too much from either working with pencils or cutting mats. Still gonna do one more waterrcolor pencil piece after this, then back to oil pastel. Hopefully the switching of mediums will help to keep them both fresh. You work in several mediums, does changing it up a bit help keep the excitment going?
I have to say I am rather pleased with it, as is Carol. Whew!