The Hidden Gallery

It's finished!!!  And the colours are so much more brilliant than this terrible and low quality scan.
My favourite thing about this painting is how the mermaid's expression came out so serene...

Thank you to the wonderful and talented Judy Boardman, who is otherwise known as artsygoddess, for her wonderful mermaid drawing!  It's been a pleasure and an honour to have worked with you on a beautiful piece of artwork.  Thank you Judy!!!

I hope you enjoyed looking at her as much as I enjoyed painting her!

Phew!  I can now go read journals without feeling guilty about not posting art!

Okay, I guess I got carried away and forgot to make a scan before it got to this point...These are the very first layers of watercolour paint.  Things look flat at this point.  The colours, the shapes, everything.  I've started shading with cobalt blue and highlighting with some rose dore for the mermaid's skin then washed over everything with yellow ocher.  I've also started indicating some of the background elements with more defined shapes.  Whatever bleed I was losing my mind over has now been resolved.  I've incorporated the bleeding ink into the watery paint.  Thank goodness!  Judy's art looks even more amazing with colours added!

Working through the email i've neglected over the past couple weeks.   I'm down to 56 emails.  wo'hoo... back on track soon I think hope.

Part VI and the finished painting next!

OMG... is all I could think when I touched wet brush to paper... I must have been on crack when I was at the art store because I didn't buy a waterproof black marker.  D'OH!

I almost cried...then remembered all the brown ink was indeed done with waterproof ink and felt a tremendous relief!!!  phew!!!  After that, I just decided to work with the bleeding.  It's an underwater illustration anyway so a little watery-ness won't be too bad, right?  That's all I could hope for at this point.  I almost had a heart attack because I thought I ruined the Judy's art!!

OMG!  Raptors took the Nets 106-69!   o____O  wo'hoo!

Next...part V!

Sorry if I depressed you with my last post.  We are now returning to our regular programming.


Recently, I participated in a teamwork challenge!  It was very cool.  A group of mermaid artists joined up for artistic collaborations.  One person would do a drawing and another person would colour and paint it.  The results have been wonderful!  It is really cool to see how each artist's style emerges from the art!

Well, I did a drawing and inked some of it.  Then I mailed it over to geckoartist who then painted (and what an improvement!) it.


This was my original drawing.  bah!



This is my drawing enhanced and beautifully painted by the talented Aubry Chapman!



I think she really improved the face.  I like her expression so much more after Aubry painted it.  I love it!  It's gorgeous!  I secretly procrastinated on mailing her my sketch because I was so dissatisfied with it.  WOW!  I think it's beautiful now!

Go visit Aubry's website!

Then you can go check out the art of the Sea Gods group here!

I thought I would try the theme and composition of this aceo again.  But bigger.



5 x 7 watercolours and ink

Been busy because of some good news!  I just can't say until I am 100% sure. :)

"Reunion"  5 x 7
SFA is an acronym for Small Format Art.  It is art that measures no longer than 14" in any direction.  SFAs include ACEOs and OSWOA.
Enjoy.

The original is much more vibrant with color in real life.  Enjoy this scan anyway!


Enjoy!

"Hello" Original 4 x 6 Watercolor Painting

Mermaid Pond
4 in x 6 in
watercolour, ink, pencils on 140 lbs. paper

OSWOA is short for original small works of art and are sized at 4 in x 6 in.  Visit the official website for more information about this new art movement.

Enjoy.