Ghost Cat and His Mother

This is my last post until I get back from vacation.  After that I will hopefully have gotten to paint some legit Bahama scenery!  

My friend Sindy wanted me to paint her with a cat and a bow tie.  I had super fun with this one!  It was a challenge to balance out the values and intensity... I REALLY wanted to give her turquoise hair, but I would've had a hard time finding the right value of turquoise that I needed, so I just went with classy black.  AND... I was like, "I'm using the Golden Mean to place my object of interest (her eyes) - so I can't have my completely black cat be completely black; or HE will take over the picture.  Hey!  What if I made him a ghost cat?!"  So I just injected French Ultramarine into a wet-wash of his outline and TADA!  Creepy cat who doesn't steal the show.  Word.  Even I am trying to figure out the meaning of this picture... how would you interpret it?

Blown Away

A wave of creativity hit me tonight.  I actually wasn't planning on posting anything today. This afternoon I did the outline of my next project (maybe that one will be up tomorrow).  But this evening's picture just wanted to come out.  I rolled my eyes when I took the picture and realized the horizon looks like it's tipping over... Maybe it's Alice about to go to Wonderland...

Don't look at me like that!

Sorry I haven't posted in 3 days.  I have been doing VBS and hanging out with friends and going to a waterfall and having sleepovers and stuff.... AND it's also more important to get in the Word than to make sure I accomplish my trivial goals... SO DON'T GIMME THAT LOOK.  :D

Horsies!!!!

I got to go horseback riding with my wonderful friend, Megan, today.  I'm not used to handling horses and got a few scratches when Snickers decided to take off through a tree.  But what's a horsey adventure if you don't get some flesh wounds to talk about?  It was good for me; I needed to make him know who the real boss was.  At one point I told him, "If we go somewhere, we don't decide it, I will.  So when I say we I mean me."  Yeah, take that horsey... No, he was actually wonderful to ride.  

I also went and bought a tube of brown madder today!  So I practiced color value with this sketch.

This is outrageus!!!!

I mean ludicrous... no no... I mean Ludacris.  I did it with a limited palette of french ultramarine, winsor yellow, and alizarin crimson.  I don't idolize the guy, but I love his fro and face.  This was very fun to paint!

Padfoot

Here's my kitty Padfoot.  He's got a brother named Prongs.  Name that reference!

Leaves and Birds

Hey, everybody!  I did one more gray painting today and a picture of bird.  Tada!