Fur In The Paint

Creature Comforts (work in progress)
Watercolor Pencil on Suede Board
20 x 22

Here’s my primary reference photo for this painting. (The photos scanned in lacking saturation.) I tipped their heads a little to show more eye because, well . . .that’s my thing.

Problems With My Time-line.
Okay so once again I over estimated my abilities. I am mildly sick and since I don’t want that to escalate into really sick (beside for the obvious reasons I have plans for the end of this week that I don’t want to miss) so I am taking it easy for a bit. Today is Sunday and though usually working on art would be considered resting, I’m taking it a bit further and spending the day on the couch wacthing some old horse movies and of course writing (blog, squidoo etc.)

I was recently asked to write for an online art community and forum, but am thinking it over as at the moment I spend way more time writing about creating art than actually doing art. On the other hand, writing is also an artistic endeavor so it’s all good.

This bottom most photo was also intirgueing for me as a painting but I just couldn’t get it to make sense. I may try some variation of it in the future.

Lofty
Oil Pastel on Handmade paper
10 1/2 x 13″

I never really finalized on the blog what my plans were for Lofty. I did try again with the acacia and this time it went in fine. It looked fine. After some deliberation I once again scraped it out. The plant life suddenly made it a painting about a giraffe grazing. Not that, that is a bad thing. But I preferred it to be a painting about a giraffe looking down at you with attitude.

This time, I deliberately did not take a picture including the acacia because this is how the painting will enter the world, and I don’t need any second images (like alternative universes, if you will) out there.

Now all I’ve got to do is get her packed up and shipped off to her new home. Yup, I’m still working the mailing lists.

Note: I don’t know why my framing is photographing so dark. The painting is on a medium rusty suede (about the color of the spots) and the frame is a dark mahogany. Weird that is just doesn’t photograph true. Anyway it hasn’t so far in the many times I photographed these handmade paper pieces. Maybe it has to do with the shadowbox depth. Hmm.