My hubby is now off work on Wednesdays. So, due to that, my work hours have changed too. I am now off on Wednesdays as well and, I am working in the studio a half day on Saturdays, while hubby is at work. I love my hubby but he is a distraction.
So yesterday, as he was home. We together, attacked our pathetic, overgrown yard from all the rain we have had. We mowed, we clipped, we hedged, it all looks nice and groomed once again.
I decided that I would re-paint just the top of our porch rail as it had become chippy from being weather beaten. I figured it would just take a few minutes to do that. Nope. You know once I got started, I realized how much better it looked and thought that it made the rest of the front porch look terrible so, I ended up painting the whole thing, including the two rocking chairs and the table. It ended up taking half the day to do all that. But I did sit out there this morning, enjoying my coffee on my newly cleaned up and painted front porch space. Until the wasps forced me back into the house.
As for today.............I am back in the studio and can't wait to get working on a new project. I, just this week, finished working on this drawing......
Well, I decided to take this drawing one step further and paint it. But, I want to paint it with a totally different look. I took my original drawing and I manipulated it digitally. It will now have a more contemporary look to it as opposed to the realistic look of the original drawing. I'm excited about this one! Here is what I have so far........
I took a 20X24 inch canvas, covered it with black gesso, and using a white charcoal pencil, sketched out the same tiger I had drawn, using my original drawing as my reference. So in essence, I copied my own work. Perfectly legit.
Using a limited palette, I will paint this puppy in. For me, the most difficult part to this piece is the initial sketch. My drawing is 9X12 and so I had to enlarge this considerably and still keep it in perspective. There are a number of ways to do that. What I did is, I used or kinda used, a device called a proportional divider. This device looks like a giant compass. It does not do the drawing for you, you still have to be able to render the image but, it assists in getting proportions down correctly. Now the reason I said I "kinda" used it is because of the size of this canvas. It is large, a little too large for the divider to accommodate completely. So for the most part, I just had to eyeball spatial relationships like the distant between the eyes, and the eyes and the snout, etc. It took some time but I think I nailed it, at least good enough to get it going. I can make adjustments and corrections as I go along.
So I'm "jumping at the bit" to get started but I do have two commissions right now that take priority. But I do think I can start laying in some color today. I still have a watercolor to finish up as well. I always have more than one art project going on. Speaking of other art projects, I do have one I abandoned a while back that I just dug out of the recesses of my studio. There really isn't anything wrong with it, I'm guessing I just drifted onto something else at the time? With Halloween coming up, I would like to finish it...............
Creepy....huh?........I gotta get started, I have a lot to do! I will keep y'all posted. I'll be back, I'm not going anywhere. I am a happy prisoner in my studio. Have a great weekend!!!
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