Thank God for Five Dollar Sheets

I bought these sheets (practically new) for five bucks. They're pretty rad, if not a little big for my bed, but still.

I've learned to put them on when Jeb comes over cause inevitably someone spills paint on them.

We both paint in acrylic so once is there, its pretty much there for good. I have to shave my carpet because of acrylic paint. What can I say? Its plastic. And my carpet is ugly. This will motivate my landlord into putting new carpets in.

So, if you haven't figured, its art day with Jebilicious and we're grooving out pretty hard core.

I painted all day today. What can I say, I'm the epitome of unemployed artist.





That is it.

Processional Painting

So, I did bad and I bought myself something before x-mas but at the size and the price I couldn't do wrong so I bought myself a pair of 40X60 cm canvases.

I then found out that my dad had bought me canvases for x-mas....LOL so when I 'opened' them (they weren't wrapped since I'd found them completely by accident, I mean, come on people, they were in the back porch on the freezer...not well hidden!!) My dad said he'd really liked my orchid macro paintings I'd done, so he wanted me to paint him an orchid painting...this is it...progressional... yes I know the camera makes it yellow tinted...Its in my room and my lamp is vaguely yellowish from all the tobacco in my house. -shrugs- when its finished or during next week I'll get a day time shot of it. okay??




this is it last friday (the 26th) in sketchy form. See? big orchids. I like.



this is it sunday morning (yes I pretty much painted all saterday evening and well into sunday...what??) You will see that I've chosen not to keep the greyish blue and that I've found an awesome magenta to work with. My goal is to really make the white orchids POP off the painting. I hope it works.



this is...as of 9 minutes ago on monday night...drying. I have to wash my brushes and start on the leaves...and stems...while I wait for the bg to dry...its not actually that red, its more pinkish with bright flecks of amber/gold. It'll match my parents room, they're bedding is that colour. and the inside of the orchids will reflect the same colour...

So far, this is probably the most I've -not- worked on a painting in one sitting, big canvases suck, they take foreverz to dry.

UGH..

updates will follow.

Flight of the Phoenix

Working on a big watercolour,

Its a pano of a flock of phoenix flying, using the basis of a peacock for the size, feather pattern and flight, Yes, peacocks DO fly, and converting the blue/green/black theme of the peafowl into reds/oranges/pinks/purples to obvious resemble fire.

Point of Fact- Bird anatomy is fucking annoying. Reverting to using ass loads of reference pictures again.

Go Me.

Anyway, as soon as I dare I will take a couple pictures for you lot, once completed it will be up for sale during the art show in August.


Anyone know the plural term for multiple phoenix? Phoenii? Phoenixes?

Fucking latin.



So when I started this this morning, I'd only had the base colours down for each of the birds, so I've gone in added primary second colours to the main bird, and then started building the depth, I have a nice little light white acrylic that I'm going to wash over this when I get to the end to build up the highlights, but thus far, over three hours of work, not including drying time, this is my main watercolour for the show.

HU-fucking-ZZAH!!

I should have this done, by early-mid week and then I'm going to work on a 2nd generation cave painting with one of my new canvases, plus a small watercolour I'm inking currently for a framed piece.

In the next coming weeks if you see anything you like, let me know and I'll give you the price for it. :D

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EDITED JULY 17th

YO BITCHES!!!

I finished it! I actually finished it on Sunday, but my sister Jess came to town so I was a bit distracted by that.

18 hrs + in total of painting hours, not including time debating on the background.

So much to say, so very enthused not too.

Well I finished a painting today, I started it way back in...geez August or September? I had plans to keep it all to myself, but I'm actually giving it as a gift.

:D

I have more pictures of it, but the sun went behind the clouds and ruined the light in my dining room. :S

It's titled 'That place in my mind, is the place you call 'mine'.'

Its from a song, gods know I can't remember the title, but I loved the pensive, deep look on the fellows face and it struck true to heartache when I chatted with the subject. I hope I did the original photograph justice.

TWO DAYS TILL I LEAVE FOR OKLAHOMA!!

-squeak-

The Epic Painting

About a month and a half ago, my long time friend Jason commissioned a portrait of himself from me. A big one. A huge massive one.

I know my limits so I said, deal if we cut it down by half.

He said deal.

We haggled over price and we settled on a cherry deal.

Now came the time to paint it. Well I had a month off school so I thought I could do it easy-peasy nice and sleezy in my time from work.

Wellz. Inspiration blows. I suck. I haven't been able to draw or paint or anything for ages. Not a fucking thing.

I get sketches done, and a idea of how I want to do it and gets Jas's approval to start. Start my sketches, start my painting and I spill spaghetti sauce all down the canvas one drunken night.

FFFFUUUUUUCCCCCKKKKKKK

another reason why Yve needs to avoid spaghetti sauce.

So. What do I do?

Wait till the very last possible moment, go out bring home a new canvas and ignore it.

I have to tell Jason.

Crap.

three days later I'm on the y!m with Vade and inspiration hits. SWEET I start drawing.

two days later I'm at Phil's house with Lawrence getting high. I get hit with MAD inspiration. SWEETNESS.

yesterday I come home, sit down and start to paint.

See the images?! Thats what I've done so far. Since last night.

I will keep you posted as I go, I want to have this done....SOON.

Its a 24" by 36" canvas and I'm painting with acrylic paints.

wish me luck.

----edited to say----

I hate the format of pictures in this fucking blog. Will figure it out soon I promise.