Final changes?
Month: October 2015
Changes to my painting after art club gave me some pointers
Its so good to have people to give me good constructive criticism and pointers. They had me shade more in the face and change the shadow to a hay bale. Still working on it but here it is so far…
i will also be working to shade more of the dog’s head and take some bright out of the blaring white boot.
Added some oil paint
In studying artists on youtube I found that many like to use oil paints on their acrylic paintings to brighten up and give more dimension. So I researched to find that no one says you cannot do it. Of course you cannot apply acrylic on an oil painted surface but applying oil in acrylic is a very common practice. It is possible to first cover the canvas with an acrylic painting, then add oil paint to portions of the canvas, the whole entire surface or just tiny details. Here it is so far.
True love
Still working in it but here it is so far.
Step by step on Titus Love … Still working on it so stay tuned
I realize now that I forgot to take a picture yesterday of my beginnings on this. Anyhow lots more work to be done but here it is. 
Improvements to the “Let Your Light Shine” Acrylic
First of all here are sketches and painted beginnings thinking about the theme:
Here is the final painting with sime changes. The moon needed to shine more brightly and other changes. 
Let Your Light Shine
I was asked by a friend who is also a school teacher if i I had any art that I could donate to her school’s silent auction. I first thought of my recent pastel pieces (below: see Protective Brother) but then i would have to mat and frame them which would be costly. So i discussed with her the possibility of an acrylic on canvas that would her school. The school mascot a dolphin and the motto this year “Let your light shine”. I immediately pictured a dolphin in the moonlight and ended up adding a child sitting high on a rock with a raised lantern: a feeling that she is looking for someone to return and raising the lantern to guide them. She gets a glimpse of a dolphin leaping which must have taken her mind off of the worry the tall waves had built in her mind. I considered including a sailboat being tossed about but decided instead that the picture story is of shining your light, hope, and the gift of the beautiful dolphin.
Taking a break from pastels … Acrylic horse bringing bluebonnets.
I have ordered some nice new pastels and i have decided to wait before doing anything more with the cheap ones. So in the meantime i pulled out my acrylics. The horse is bringing a mouthful of Texas bluebonnets.
1940’s watermelon eating 3 year old in front of old car
Art supplies in cigar boxes
Sometimes the cigar boxes come with wood frames inside which were perfect to slide ontop of my colored pencils for travel. Note the Starbucks stir stick I use to unstick my pencil sharpener. 
Comparison of pastel to prismacolor and oil pastels: Protective Brother
Prismacolor pencils with oil pastel finish.
Prismacolor pencils (unfinished)
Pastel (unfinished)
Icecream with a relish
Baby rolls and pink boots… The process as I do it.
I had such bad rumples from the watercolor see below. So i wet the back and pushed it tight between books and in the process got out most of the rumples but put a crease in. So i think this one is jist a practice and will be beginning another sans watercolors. I learned a whole lot!!!
Adding layers of pastel.
Adding in color with watercolor pencils.
Below is the first sketch with blocking in a bit of color with watercolor pencils. I plan is to first paint washy watercolors and then lay on pastels.
Shrink art pins
My best friend in Prismacolor
