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Here we have the next ten images for Rory Goes to the Dentist, my NaNoWriMo project, it’s really coming along, but I think I will defiantly need more than 30 images for this book. I’m sure I’ll cut some of … Continue reading
This gallery contains 10 photos.
This year I’m doing NaNoWriMo in a different way. Instead of writing 50K words, I’m painting 30 pictures for my children’s book “Rory goes to the dentist.” I’m valuing each picture at 2K words, though I will say it should … Continue reading
We’ve all heard it before. Are you a pear shape? An apple shape? You’re neither. You’re person shaped. People come in different shapes and sizes, we aren’t apples, we aren’t pears, we’re people.
Enjoy your body, express it, and love it. Don’t put it down, find what you like about it, even if you have to use someone else’s eyes. You wouldn’t allow someone to be so negative about your friends, so why allow yourself to be so negative about you?
I don’t normally do straight paintings of established characters like this. Just painting someone else’s art makes me feel like I’m copying, but this time I wanted to do a painting of Ursula the Sea Witch because she is just plain awesome. Not only is she a great villain but she’s a woman in power and control of her life and her body. Sure she is is evil, but she still has everything else going for her, and she makes a really good role model. I always liked her songs and liked her attitude.
“Never under estimate the power of BODY LANGUAGE! Ha!”
I hope to one day get a cool Ursula costume going for myself, I just want to make sure that when I do, her tentacles look awesome, not cheap, that’s the big thing holding me back right now.
Ursula doesn’t apologize for anything, she takes up space and fills a room, and if she’s really mad, she just gets bigger. She’s plain awesome.
This weekend I did a bit more painting with the ArtRage app on my iPad. I like it because it has layers and there issn’t any cleanup involved, also, I can paint from anywhere. Humidity doesn’t effect my paintings and there is no drying time. Often my oil paintings take forever to dry because I use a lot of paint and I will use linseed oil as a medium too. I once let a painting dry for three weeks and the white was still tacky when I gave the painting to the owner.
This first painting was done from a photo of Christina Hendricks. I don’t think I did her justice but then again who can? I do love how the brush stroke on her hair came out.
Next I did a painting of Rory as a Steampunked gentleman. What more does a genteldragon need other than a top hat, a monocle, vest, cane, ray gun, and a curly mustache.
The thing that is great about doing a painting on your iPad is that if you like the basic outline, you’r not committed to just one painting or painting style. I then took the outline and did a watercolor painting.
This time I painted Rory in watercolors and dressed him up as Doctor 11, Fez, Bowtie, Sonic Screwdriver and all.
I had fun with this, and liked how I could make different incarnations with the same basic outline. I may just end up using ArtRage for the future children’s book that stars Rory. Originally I was going to do a series of watercolors but I think I might do better with this app. For now I’m playing an experimenting with it. Hey you never know, if I do end up using it for the book, does that mean I can take the iPad off as a deduction from my taxes? :)