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Tuesday, March 22, 2005A new head and a couple paintings...I’ve been inspired lately. I swore when I started the cat I was over doing the heads…and I’m working on another head. But this one is small. No, really. It is small. I swear! I’m not going to build anything over 12-13 inches tall. Period. So the head I’m working on is small. It’s going to be male, based on one of my favorite men’s cologne advertisements. I don’t off-the-cuff remember the name of the cologne…some nautical sounding name…but the model has a great head—I like the shape of his chin and his wide smile. I hope he looks as good bald as he does with hair. I have it roughly built up to the chin. I’m also working on two small oil paintings. One I started a couple months ago and put away. I pulled it back out this evening. It is an 8 x 10 oil of a scene off the canal in Venice. The other is of my mom’s Chihuahua. Go to www.ebay.com, and put in this item number: 7305306386 for a search. Do you BELIEVE what that dog was sold for? Look at the background…or lack thereof. So I’m doing an oil painting of Missy. She is a very photogenic little dog, a smooth coat tan colored Chihuahua with lots of chin and neck folds. I have hundreds of photographs of her. The folks have a sky light in their den. Mom tends to keep the drapes drawn, but if it is a sunny day Missy will follow the light of the skylight—taking her naps on the sun warmed carpet. I have some good images of her: half dark, half light. I hope I can do them justice. I am not an experienced oil painter. I’ve dabbled is all. It will be interesting to see what I can do when inspired. posted @ 09:40 PM CST [link] Wednesday, March 9, 2005Almost Finished!It’s completely built and I put on the first coat of underglaze—it will get three. I canned the idea of adding Egyptian embellishments—simpler is more quickly finished. It looks blue in the image but it isn’t. Of all my many jars of underglaze, the only one that had not completely dried out was a blue/green. I like blue/green, and hopefully Kathy will too. I’ll find out this weekend, she is coming to visit. This is the last large piece I am going to build for a while. I’m going to stick to 12-13 inches or under. I apologize for the less than sterling quality of the image. My good digital is in the shop, this was taken with a 1.3 Mega Pixel Fuji FinePix. Old, but still working--unlike my Canon which has been sent back to be repaired twice now. posted @ 09:16 PM CST [link] [more] [more] [more] |
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