Technology Woes
Another busy day at the gallery, in fact I came home for Supper and am returning at 7pm to meet another customer. Since I live in the boonies most people have to drive a distance to come here. Anywho, I had better make this brief.
So at 4 this afternoon I sit down to the computer to put the finishing touches to my latest business post (a two parter) and my file won’t open. A loud annoyaning horn like sound hinks at me, followed by a read error message. Aaargh! I eject the cd, looks fine and try again. Nothing. I close the file and start from the beginning. Again nothing. I have to force myself to stop trying to open the file. I mean if it did work the first three times it probably isn’t going to work on the 4th, right? So I call my computer genius of a husband hoping he can perform some sort tecki guru of miracle. I’ll spare you the conversation but he mildly mocked me for not saving my work on the hard drive and let it be known that all my hard work is lost and gone forever. (Heavy sigh, some weeping and wringing of hands.)
Okay, so it’s not really that bad. But it did have multiple posts near completion, plus many ideas and random thoughts. I better quit talking about it or I’ll work myself into a state.
So all you get today is a basic lamb drawing. The top piece of paper is my initial drawing on handmade paper. As I mentioned before, this stuff is delicate and as I was finishing up my drawing I TORE it. So I took some tracing paper and traced it off (the left most image) and then redrew (by tracing over the image on the tracing paper) onto the new sheet of handmade paper. This technique leaves no pencil lines, but you can still see the indentions well enough to work it. (Of course, you don’t see anything in the photo.)
You ever have one of those days?
Always.
Love the lambs
Thanks Undaunted. These lambs were a couple of our bottle lambs one year. I tried to paint them way back when I first started with oil pastel and it turned out rather hideous. But because I was emotionally attached to the critters, I kept the painting hoping to try again. So here we go.
Sorry about your file — very frustrating.
Looking forward to your lamb painting — the drawing looks great. I can’t believe you can do the oil pastel on that paper if it tears that easiley. I scrub my paintings with my fingers at times.
I spent the day doing a colored pencil painting of a dog for a friend. I have been practicing with CP, but this was my first complete painting that I didn’t copy from the CP book I have been practicing with.
I am giving it to her on Tuesday.
Got my second horse painting corrected but haven’t reposted it yet. Wet canvas is back up, but I may not get to post until Monday.
Happy painting, Angela
Clever girl, you are absoloutly right. The paper didn’t work at all. This is a new batch of larger sheets and actually the oil pastel would lift away a little paper if I tried to layer at all. Very frustrating. My other handmade paper is too small for the lambs, so either I will have to do them on my usual substrate or move on. Hurumph!
I did check out wet canvas this morning. I love the reworked Victory. She (he) looks beautiful. Also liked the Sorrel (or was it a chestnut?) The muzzle needed to be played with but I imagine you did that in the rework. Very nice. There is a huge demand for horse portraits. I think an artist (meaning you, if you want to go there) could do very well.