I am having a love affair with iridescent gel. I can't seem to get away from it, not that I want to. I can't help but throw some into almost all my paintings at the moment. I just love the lustre.
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mermaids and faeries
A fling with iridescent gel
Spring has sprung paint
It is so wonderful to have some sunny weather to paint in. Last weekend I grabbed my acrylics and set up on the back porch and threw together to beginnings of a randomish painting (mainly because the canvas I'm using has a thread pull in it and I had to wait for the other...
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Sofie the Mermaid complete!
Day 3 of 30 Days of Creativity and I have finally completed my eldest daughter's mermaid painting!
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30 Days of Creativity: Day 2 – painting seaweed
I don't have any finished art to show today, but I did do quite a bit of work on my mermaid painting.
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30 Days of creativity: Day 1 – sprinkling a mermaid
Today was filled with work and a mad dash to an important deadline...which I managed to make with ten minutes to spare...YEAH! If I wanted to be pedantic, I could say that creating an online newsletter and playing with graphics all days fulfills my creativity quota for today, but since I'm allotting this challenge...
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Mermaid still a work-in-progress
And here I am still painting my mermaid. It is taking forever because I only have small amounts of time to attend to it. I ended up setting it up inside and working by my desk lamp. Not the best, but at least I can pick it up and leave it when I have...
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More mermaids
Youngest Daughter's mermaid is likely to be blue or maybe gold, I'm undecided at this point. Aiming to make her different from Eldest Daughter's (whose mermaid has now been christened 'Sofie'). The octopus has made a return because he was cute in that first original drawing even though Eldest Daughter kicked him off the...
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Mermaid still in progress
Just a quick update before I dash to serve up dinner. My mermaid painting from this sketch last week which I did some more of during the week and today.
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Mermaid in progress
This is a follow up on my mermaid sketch from last Sunday.
I've started painting.
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Mermaid II
Do you remember the mermaid sketch I did a while back? Its intention was a layout sketch for a painting for my eldest daughter. Unfortunately, eldest daughter had some reservations about the composition. The octopus got his marching orders and a number of other things weren't what she wanted, so I've revised the sketch,...
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