This painting took three tries. The first one was the right technique but the wrong color, the second one was the right color but the wrong composition, and this one isn’t quite the right technique, but bugger if I was starting it a fourth time. While this wasn’t quite the technique I had wanted to […]
Monthly Archives: September 2010
Clearly the problem is not me. Clearly the problem is my art supplies! Therefore I must drive to Jerry’s at once and buy a bunch of Prismacolors and some more inktense watercolor pencils and oooh, look, they have ALL the colors of PITT pens! Ooooooh….
Got up. Looked at the painting I worked on for four hours last night. Realized immediately that the technique was perfect and the colors were completely wrong. Probably not fixable without another few hours of work. Sighed heavily. (Still, the technique was good! I figured that bit out! The trick is to use the watercolor […]
…and woke up, and looked at the piece, and said “no, no, the lines are too fine.” Part of the problem with these is that I’m floundering in both technique and setting–normally I’ve got at least one of the two. But at least I’m establishing parameters–the lines in this one are too delicate, the lines […]
It is a sad thing for the artist to be reduced to clutching her head and going “Is this what you wanted? Is this where you belong? Is this it?” To an image which is after all nothing but a collection of lines that she came up with in the first place. It isn’t quite […]
These paintings are starting to drive me nuts, and attempting to complain about it makes me sound crazy, or worse yet, like a muse-ridden artiste. I cannot figure out where these things go. I didn’t know when they were rabbits with masks, and I wasn’t entirely sure when they were odd blobby things with masks–although […]
…and make you listen to it! Now, with photographic documentation of the food!
I return! It was quite a whirlwind trip. The Florida leg was on the beach, and I saw terns and willets and sanderlings and lots of dead moon jellyfish. The Southern Independant Booksellers Association was a great bunch–my table had a line! We ran out of books in twenty minutes! I had to turn people […]
It’s been a lousy couple of days here and there’s crap going down that promises long-term suckage, so I’m a little fragile right now…which is probably why this article made me break down and cry at the keyboard. I’m probably the only person on earth who would bawl over this, but man, stuff like this […]
Still the odd silent apparitions with masks. This one is about a third the size of Owlform, more of a study of the character design than anything else, and I wanted to do it on illustration board so that it would soak up the ink better, so that I didn’t keep scraping it up with […]