Friday, April 27, 2007

Painting Dragon and Snowmelt


Two new digital paintings are done, including my dragon which you can see at my website.

I also completed the painting posted here, Snowmelt. It was an experiment in painting digitally all on one layer. I almost did it, exept that I had started by outlining the main trees, and I needed to copy those outlines to a new layer where the water is so that I could paint under them. I don't know if I would ever want to try one layer again, but it was an interesting experience. I think I picked a good subject for it, and I would have hated painting this picture with acrylics. Even on the computer I was starting to get a little tired of trees. It took about 28 hours to do.

Now I am working on a small acrylic piece. I have been doing a lot of reading at wetcanvas.com and one member is teaching others the Flemish technique, so this week I started following along. The painting will be a Mother's Day gift along with photos of the stages involved, which I will post here when it is done.

As for the house, we're not buying it after all, and we're not sure what we're going to do at this moment.

Tuesday, April 03, 2007

New tablet!

I finally got a new tablet on the weekend and have gotten back to work on my latest digital dragon picture. In the meantime, I had done a little doodling with coloured pencils. I just have some cheap ones right now though.

Feeling a little stressed out about the house. We don't know what will happen until the appraisal is done. And if it does go through, a lot of work will have to be done to bring the house up to code. I'm starting to think that we should have just built a new one. Oh well, what's meant to be will be.