Little French one

Art class today, this is a section of me learning that it's very difficult to do skin tones on black paper!

Monday!

It's monday, gorgeously sunny and the two babes I have with me today are currently sleeping.


Ahhh peace at last.


I still need to draw Stevie baby's teeth but have to wait for another pic for that.


Ok trying the keyboard on my lap! brilliant so now I have my feet up as well...what more could i WANT?


Oops.


Today is day three of a ten day raw food break,mostly just to see how I actually feel and what I'd really like to eat after a break from all the cakes/sugar/biscuits/junk I've been eating since...at least Christmas.


I feel so much better already, more relaxed and definitely simplified. It's easier to listen to my body as well...though not so easy to go to my sister's first barbecue on Saturday, or even have best friends round for one of Marks gorgeous roastie meals yesterday! It smelt lovely.


Bumped into the lady that runs the drop-in art class today, so I think my next adventure is figure work.


Big kisses

Spirit and Me

I love to commune with spirit/God/All that is through people. Nature/anything/ everything too...but Love seeing it through people...

I've been missing something recently...missing remebering (I always type that wrong and then change it, today I'm leaving it) Re Me bering?

God! how often have I heard that! It's always Me Me Me with you!

Good. It's what I know best...and I guess that's the constant ingredient for communing with Spirit. Me with people, Me with nature, Me with anything and everything.

I guess that's what I needed to remember

Big Love.

Slightly detached

Ok Stevie Baby's piccie is done, save deciding whether to give him all his teeth or not. It is the most conservative looking picture I think I have ever done in my life, which has made it a little awkward to like...even if he's kind of cute. Maybe it just reminds me of school too much!


Time seems very strange to me at the moment. Every day is busy, and passing....noisy and messy and running around after house and children. Seeing the sunshine. All very slightly detached though and timeless. Maybe I'm tired.

Getting a little more time on the internet now, have had to bring back a link list (on the blogspot blog).The tag roll from del.icio.us is pretty but not very practical for everyday access.

There is so much to see out there, beautiful art and people...there is so much colour and movement in this world. It is truly beautiful. Terrible, and wonderful and beautiful.

Ok off to enjoy all that in a slightly detached timeless way. Big kisses to you. Yes you.

XX

One of my mum's pic's.

See, told you it was beautiful!

Taken over

Our lives have been somewhat hi-jacked by portrait drawing...I'm missing spending time browsing blogs! And writing in my own!


I also use the computer a fair bit during the portrait process, scanning the work in to compare side by side with the original, and even though this time I have an actual photo to work from, I still find that very helpful...Unfortunately the rest of the family are barely getting a computer look-in.


Above is an A4 section of Stevie baby's old school picture portrait...still a way to go, but hopefully not too much longer, it must be around eight hours work so far...if I plan to continue I hope to get a bit quicker!...or a lot better. This is the first time I've had a go with blending with rolled up paper (can't remember what that's called!) and it definitely helps stop younger skin looking full of wrinkly pencil lines.

This blog is looking a bit portrait-tastic though...I promise you and myself to get some alternate life back!

Big kisses

woohoo!

Woohoo!...time to dance!..well at least wiggle a bit...I think it's finished.

It hasn't taken quite as long as I was scared that it would...but I have lost track of how many days I've been working on this one...this is an A4 scan out of the middle of an almost A2 size picture, and I kind of wish I had done it even bigger! Z's face is quite small for working on at this size.

Pencil is quite an economical medium...if you don't count the time it takes!

Paper is expensive though, and this quite expensive sheet was a mistake, even though I asked in the art shop for help, it wasn't strong enough for the amount of lifting and corrections I'm in the habit of making.

Ok...so maybe now I'll get to read a bit more of other peoples blogs, and find out what everyone else has been up to!

Big kiss.

just realised I missed another hugnation!

as it stands

Art for my mum!

So here's the piece I'm working on...current photo, scan and original image... and below are three of the scans I've taken as the picture is being done...It's driving me nuts by the way...taking forever and I'm still short on faith that Z will look like Z!

Big kisses