Work in progress

I've been working on my icicle painting. It's close to being done, but isn't yet. (I think. I could be wrong.) I kind of like the stage it's currently at, so I took a (bad) picture of it. I've been using acrylic paint, acrylic markers, and a tiny bit of oil-based sharpies.  The silver sharpie is reflective, which looks a bit odd in the picture.

So far I think maybe I've spent 4 or 5 afternoons on this, which is probably the most time I've ever spent on a painting. Usually two afternoons maxes out my patience. But, for some reason, working on this one has been really fun! I think it's because I love my acrylic markers. Such bright colors, and way less messy than paint.

Anyway, here it is (16 by 20 inches):

Potential Future Paintings

I finally cleared off ~240 photos from my phone! Most of them were pictures of my cat. The following pictures are those I was thinking might be fun to paint. Basically, the more hideously photoshopped the photo, the more likely it is I will paint it.

The above is SO RIDICULOUSLY PHOTOSHOPPED that I will paint it for sure! It is barely recognizable as moss and icicles.  It's kind of an ugly photo, but I can see the inner painting. It's gonna look so psychedelic!

This one is EVEN MORE photoshopped, but I kind of like it as it is, so I might just leave it as a photo.  

These are from the highway between Montreal and Ottawa, taken on December 29th.  That road is so boring most of the time, but every once in a while the sunsets are pretty.  I kind of hate painting sunsets, though. They always turn out like red blobs. Not enough details I guess.

By contrast, this one looks too hard to paint because it is way too detailed! WHO HAS THE TIME?

Massively color-saturated mud puddle picture!  After I took this photo, I stomped the shit out of that mud puddle in my rain boots. TAKE THAT, WINTER!

Even though it's January the sun is awesome. I <3 u, sun. 

Hopefully I will not succumb to winter laziness and I will actually paint/draw something before it's spring. Unlikely, but one can always dream. 

Winter Makes me Lazy

But here is a lame gif of my tea:

A Song of Light, Twigs, and Fluff

A few weeks ago Mr. Green and I went to the Botanic Gardens with our friends David and Rebecca. My camera immediately ran out of batteries, but Rebecca was kind enough to lend me her phone. I then proceeded to take >1 GB of photographs.

Here are a few that I like, photoshopped into sweet technicolor oblivion:

Time to make some paintings! :D

Spooky Trees

I made a painting this week. Shockingly, it's of trees! (My favorite subject...) To keep things interesting, I turned it into a spooky gif:

Happy Halloween ...

Disco Lilies

Today I learned how to make a gif:

Wheee!

Space.

The above drawing might look like the insides of a witches cauldron, but that is not the fault of its subject. I was trying to draw a Hubble image of 30 Doradus, which is a well-known star-forming region in the Large Magellanic Cloud. In other words, it's a drawing of a star nursery.

I scanned my star nursery picture and started playing with its hue in Photoshop. Dr. Green taught me how to how to stitch these differently colored images together into a movie. Watch the psychedelic witches brew boil!

Like most of my recent drawings, I drew this space image with oil-based sharpies. I just can't get over how bright they are! Today, when I was cleaning the apartment, I found a bunch of old drawings. I put them in plastic covers and hung them up in the window to get them out of the way. And behold!

Colors!!