Painting in Progress

My favorite things, today: iced coffee and Patrick Watson (his music inspires my imagination and takes me on a lovely trip while painting).

I spent a couple of hours drawing and painting while listening to Mr. Watson, and this is my progress today. Once I have the heavy black lines painted in, I will begin to add the color in between and overlapping the thicker edges.

Close up of the left side of her hair

Close up of the right side of her hair

Skirt of feathers

The Move Studio Mural

I had the delightful experience to assist my friend (and talented artist), Christopher Sheehan, with a mural that he is finishing up for The Move Studio, here in Dallas.

Chris has put a lot of love and hours into his Spiral Portal mural! How many hours... I am not sure.. a LOT. He started with a lazure painting (notice the background of layered colors behind the spiral) that I believe consisted of about 20 layers of color applied with a brush using an infinity stroke. No small task! I was happy to be able to help him connect the spiral, something that took a mere 4 hours. When I left he still had highlights to add and a varnish to apply to the wall.

I am looking forward to seeing the final piece! Thanks for including me, Chris! :)

Welcome Back!

Not you.. me! You have been here all along. :P Thank you for your patience.

I took a break, a vacation of sorts. I played more and I've come back refreshed with a new appreciation for playing. :)

Yesterday, I had an art night with my good friend Randy-a very talented artist. We settled in on his couch with bristol board and paper in our laps, pen and ink, pencils and a glass of wine and a plate of cheese. Insert two beautiful dogs and one gorgeous cat and all was right with the world. Oh and Edward, who could forget him? :D

The only temporary damper was that I couldn't draw what I set out to draw! But, that is all well and good because I drew what I could at the moment-a Sad Bunny (sad for what I couldn't draw but yet so darn cute) and random images of lips and noses. Sometimes you just have to go back to basics.