So today's post is Happy 350th post to me.
To be honest I didn't even realize it until I logged in and in the stats for my blog I noticed that my last post was #349. Yay observant me!
Anyhoo, here are a couple of updates for the two previous pieces I had featured here. Both of them have essentially passed what is fondly referred to in the coloured pencil artists world as "the ugly stage".
Freisian Stallion- WIP8x10, Coloured pencil on Colourfix
True, every piece of art during its creation goes through an "ugly stage". The problem with coloured pencil, as any artist that uses them extensively will tell you, is that the ugly stage can last a long time. A veeeeery loooong time. In fact, it's often during these ugly stages that pieces get abandoned, like those errant single running shoes seen at the side of the highway.
Who gets so mad at their shoes, nay, a single shoe, that they feel the need to chuck it out the window while travelling at top speed in their vehicle? When they stop and have to get out do they regret throwing the shoe out the window? These are the questions that plague me... but I digress.
Silver & Cherries- WIP11x14, Coloured pencil on Colourfix
So those are the updates for this week. My drooling ACEO isn't complete yet as I have another artistic project that I'm working on for my brother's abode. In typical guy fashion he has nothing on his walls and, as an artist, it pains me to think that there are nudist walls somewhere that are crying out for some decent clothes to wear. "Clothes", in this case, being art.
On that note I must go now and continue the noble quest of creating wall clothing. Toodles!
2 comments:
you have a great shine to that silver jug! really glows :D
the shoe thing puzzles me too. the person got mad at smelling the stink? didn't like the colour. Tried killing a turkey on the side of the road with it? I wonder if its a always a left or right shoe? very odd
Thanks Jennifer!
Yeah, the shoe thing has always puzzled me. I mean, really, what goes through a person's mind that throwing shoes out the window of a moving vehicle seems like a good idea??
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