"Lamacita Wants A Kiss"

I enjoyed doing the first "Llmacita" so much, I had to do another one!  Photo ref. is one I took when we visited Linda and Jeff Mueller, last year.  (See previous post).

"Llamacita Wants A Kiss", Pastel, 8"x6"

Here are some work in progress shots:

referance photo

Thought my sky was too light, so blued it some.  Something was still bothering me about it, so put it in my colored pencil app. and darkened the sky.  That did make Llamacita stand out more.  So, I added trees in the app. and liked the effect.  

On the painting, I made the sky more turquoise (more complementary to the llama's color).  Then I added the trees.  The painting then said it was finished.

Thanks for looking!!

"Lunch in the Garden", WIP #6

Well, I have been away from my studio for three weeks and I am so anxious to get back to this painting.  This WIP is where I left off.  When I had last worked on it, I had decided I wanted to put more blue violet in the flowers.  Somehow I had gotten them too red violet.  Plus, I want to work on the background to add more depth to it.  And here I thought I was almost done!  Really shouldn't take much more time :).  The last thing I will do is adding detail to the flowers of the top butterfly, a little at the middle one, and haven't decided about the bottom butterfly.  The hardest thing will be knowing when to stop.

So, my next post should be the finished painting.

Enjoy, and thanks for reading.

Pastel on velour board, 24"x12"

"Lunch in the Garden", WIP #5

After a nice weekend, I am back in my studio, ready for the challenge ahead.  I did manage to peak at my WIP--to make sure it was still there :). bit really to see if anything jumped out that didn't look right.  My main work, now, is the background.  Found the left side of my brain arguing with the right, saying…"you know you've got to paint all those leaves, and in detail…", with a response from the right…"no, I don't--just make it look like I have."  That's an accomplishment for me, since I am a very detailed person!

I want to say that practice makes perfect, but let's keep it at better.  Starting to get a hang for the background.  I think I could do a BlueMist flower blindfolded.  I put a photo of the WIP in my ValueViewer app. and, to me, it looks good, but I'm still learning about how to apply Notan--so, I will say "based on my knowledge".

To Be Continued….