3/4/2013
Today’s painting is another love your body, I think this study will have to be worked on more, attempted a few times, the proportions are still a bit off, but I love this just the same. I love how her middle roles and how she seems to be holding herself in a loving embrace, she loves her body.
3/3/2014
This is a painting I did from an image I’ve had on my iPad for over a year, I really wanted to be able to paint it but the red sheets were so striking. Sadly I don’t have the source for the image to link to :( if you recognize it please let me know so I can fix that.
This is part of my Love Your Body series, basically celebrating the beauty of the human form. Everyone is beautiful.
I’ve got a new stylus for my iPad (months old, but new this year and I haven’t talked about it yet) its a paint brush, and I just love it. It works so well and I feel like I have better control now.
Tonight I was playing D&D with my group back in NY. They all get together at my sister’s house and my husband and I skype in with video. It’s fun, even if we haven’t worked out all of the kinks. Kinda nice that I get to keep my character and play from up here. My character is Pe’ggy, HE is a half orc Barbarian. I’ve been having a lot of fun playing him, really getting into the role playing side of it. He disbelieves in any magic, even if it benefits or hurts him. Everyone around him just plays along, even when using magic on him. For instance, when he was grown in size he just believed everyone else got small, and thought they were playing tricks on him.
While playing tonight I decided to give Pe’ggy a face. Pencil drawing that I slightly colored after scanning.
3/1/14: Today Marks the Beginning of ART MONTH! Art month is a tradition I started where I make sure I create something every day. It is the month of March, but often goes for longer, because it’s also for the length of Lent too, it came from me taking this on as part of lent one year. (You don’t always give things up, but do things to help you focus on God. Art helps me drown out life and reflect.)
So I thought I’d start us off this year with a drawing of Rory, I thought I’d try to draw him as a pokemon, asked Tek what I would need to do to display that, and he said a poke ball. Well Rory will have none of that! How dare you try to contain a dragon? Imprisonment? He thinks not! So this was Rory’s reaction to being a pokemon, SMASH THE POKE BALL!
I first saw this post on tumblr by user flushedskin and knew I wanted to paint something with this as a guide.
I first worked on a study on my ipad and then tonight painting this with watercolors. I had to modify it a bit since the original photo had a hand and phone in the way, but I think I did all right. I ended up using my husband posting for me to figure out where the shoulder should be.
I love how soft this looks, like the coloring too. There is something about the human form that I just love painting.