New painting ("See The Beauty") & painting in progress pics

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Painting progress pics

Here's the state of my painting table this morning after working on the painting in the foreground yesterday. Think a cleaning is in order before I start back up today. LOL!

This is the sketch for the new painting...



And here's where it was last night when I had to stop because of a bad headache...probably from staring at this painting too long. LOL!



Blogger is still not letting me upload photos, so I'm having to grab these from my Flickr account and insert them. Think it's about time to try out Typepad.....Blogger is too buggy and my iMac blog is taking forever to load! *sigh*

Well I'm off to fix myself some lunch....and go get Aiden to finish his. Did you ever see a kid who took hours to eat his lunch???? LOL!!! That is unless I sit there and make him eat it...typical day in the Insall household. ;)

Painting progress - part 2

Well this is where the painting was when I started on it today. I didn't get too much further since I only had about an hour by the time I got into my studio...got the collage elements picked out and cut out though. If I have the energy after I put Aiden to bed, I might glue them down...depending on how wiped out I feel.

It's pretty hard to see in the pictures, but the painting has lots of texture...even in the woman's face. I just love how it adds so much interest and character to her. I still have a few finishing touches to do on the face, but her face is about 90% done I'd say.

Now all that's left is to put in the collage elements, add a little more paint and ink to incorportate them into the piece and she'll be finished. I'll post another progress pic of her once I get a little further, which hopefully will be tomorrow evening or sometime on Thursday.

Well it's Aiden's bedtime, so Momma has to go help him get ready for bed. G'nite ya'll. Have a good one!

New painting in progress

Something I've always enjoyed is getting peeks into the process of an artist....seeing a work progress through it's various stages. So I've decided it's something I'd like to do here on a regular basis. :)

Do you remember these pieces? Well, I'm currently working on the last one from this grouping and hope to finish it up today...or at least sometime tomorrow. These two pics show where it was about halfway through my workday on Friday. I'll post another pic later today or tomorrow with where I got it to by the end of the day Friday (I need to take a pic of it before I get started back on it today first).

Well, I'd better get a move on if I'm gonna get any further with this piece before I have to leave to pic up Aiden at preschool. So stay tuned for more...and be sure to click on the pictures for a larger view. :)