More painting progress...

Colors are a bit off because I snapped these in a hurry before I had to go pick up Aiden at school. Next step will be to finish her blouse and add some other elements that tie in with the meaning behind the painting. If all goes well, I'll be adding those tomorrow. Wish I could just stay up all night and finish her, but I'd be paying for that tomorrow. ;) :D

She's on the canvas!

Well I decided to go ahead and put her on the canvas. Tried a little bit of a different way than what I usually do and I think it worked quite well. Yea! You'll probably notice that she's a mirror image now and that comes from the way I transferred her. I drew her on tracing paper with a regular pencil, then I flipped over the drawing and used a bone folder and burnished the drawing onto the canvas. It worked fabulously!!!

Then I proceeded to go over my transfer with pencil and then did all the shading....something else different from the way I usually go about the process. Trying to stretch myself a little more and shake things up a bit....gotta keep things fresh, right? :D

And here's where she is tonight. Think I've about got all the shading done on her. Gonna spray her with a workable fixative to keep the pencil from smearing when I start adding paint tomorrow. I'll try to post pics of her tomorrow once I get a little further on her.

Thank y'all so much for all the sweet comments, encouraging words, and lovely emails. They mean so much to me!!! Y'all are all a bunch of sweeties!!! I'll try my best to respond to all of them some time in the next week or so. Right now, I'm trying to focus on getting some painting done so most of my left over energy (which has not been plentiful lately) needs to be spent in my studio.

~love & hugs

A better peek of new sketch

A better peek at a new drawing I'll be painting soon, I hope. Thisisn't the whole drawing, but it gives you an idea of the direction this painting will take. Planning on doing this on a 16"x16" gallery style canvas, so the spacing will change a bit from the original sketch. Funny thing is that when I sat down to draw yesterday, I hadn't planned on doing this large of a drawing and it felt like the drawing drew itself...guess God had another thing in mind. :D

Sketching

New painting finished & a sneak peek of another piece in progress