grant us one more hour to perform our art and perfect our lives.

people may take my title to be a negitive thing accosiated with death, but i dont mean it that way sometimes when i paint i kinda go through this feeling of give me just 1 more hour and then i'll stop, it often feels like i never have enough time, especially with the multiple projects i have running at once.

i finished 1 of my 4 digital pics that i have on the go... i am very pleased with myself. i especially love the accordian, really glad i decided to colour this sketch :D

i'm hoping to dedicate 1 day a week to drawing from life, i need to get myself organised but its needed. i want to manage my time better. i'm going to plan everything on one of the free calenders my boyfriend got from work. only art related things are going on there. also i'm applying for a couple of illustration courses one is in children's illustration the other is fantasy illustration. i'm also considering taking a portrait drawing and painting class to to improve my drawing of faces. need to get moving and apply, but at least i've found some courses to take right :D theres a few that i was interested in but have been and gone hopefully they'll do them again next school year

winters lullaby is going to be the first picture for a calender, with my spring awakening, and my autumn gathering idea, its feeling pretty appropriate for a calender. i'm also going to start selling prints of my work soon, mainly because the imagine fx forumites club wants to do a catologue of everyone's prints and update it every month and advertise them, and been a sucker for group participation i'm defiantly considering it.

anyway time to sleep, happy drawing/writing/whatever you guys do

haggis

shadowscapes and using purple as a skin tone.

i'm going to talk about another awesome artist i recently descoved. i was at this shop called sacred space gifts buying a couple of oracle packs (which the artwork was lovely) and the owners who i have talked to before and are very friendly mentioned a Stephanie Pui-Min Law which she was waiting to buy her tarot deck as its not for sale but she had recently bought a book of hers. she even kindly wrote her name down for me so i could look her up. i'm glad i did.

her watercolours are beautiful. I've even already learned of a new technique to try out (throwing rubbing alcohol onto the page) obviously i have been useing watercolour for some time now, since i was 13 i belive and love water colour works by john howe and alen lee. it was nice to finally find another artist who works with watercolour i like.

cycles: moonbathing

i love the purple she uses, i went on the site she linked and by the sounds of it i can buy my own pigment and make my own paint, which is an interesting thought. i don't know if i have the space to make my own paint yet though.

Autumn foxfire

I'm concidering ordering her tarot major acanea book with the picture drawn inside (each pictures an origanal sketch. as it would be lovely to own. and i'm definatly buying her tarot set, even though i havent read tarot cards in a long time. the art work is very pretty. heres a preview of the books inside http://www.shadowscapes.com/details.php?lineid=21&bid=555

you can see more of her work here http://www.shadowscapes.com/ and her blog herehttp://shadowscapes-stephanielaw.blogspot.com/

on other note i have started colouring my winters lullaby picture. this is one huge eperiment for me as i'm using purple for the skin shadows. hopefully this once finished will give a night time feel to the picture. the photo has some what lost alot of the texture in her fur, hopefully when i scan it it will look better. though i might have to get a new scanner if i cant get the drivers working on the new pc.

and a sneaky peek at the videos i have been recording this one is of skin, and inst completed properly yet. it will need cleaning up that sought of thing, hence why its a sneaky peak.

so stay tuned for more videos on this piece though might take a week or so to finish recording and then theres the actual edit. but still i hope to get it up in the next couple of weeks :) gotta spring one forming in my head too, hopefully i can draw all the seasons or even do 12 related to each other and print my own calender to sell. we shall see.

makes you want to paint

man i have been busy with my next picture. its another traditional piece. i really need to get back to those digital pics but i cant resist my traditioanal mediums calling, there way to fun. i like digital too but i think i like traditional more, proberbly because i feel like i actually know what i'm doing with my traditional works. anyway it already has a title and is called winters lullaby heres a sneaky peak of one of the charecters in sketch form.

thats right fauns playing music theres 3 of them in total one singing, one playing the harp and one playing some weired double flute. hopefully its gonna be awsome. i'm recording it and making video tutorials for it. i think i should recorded it all first then edit it. i have edited most of the sketch to line art video together but so far i am not happy with it so its gonna need a re think. so i have decided to film all the colouring process then edit the thing together (in 10 min sections for youtube etc. of course... man i hate time limits so much sometimes. maybe i should use vimeo? i donno more poeople likely to see it on you tube.

next i'm going to talk about an artist i find inspirational called Michael Shapcott i clicked on his work because he was linking a video in his comments and me been me cant resist videos of art. and omg this was amazing. i have never wanted to paint so much in my life watching him paint made me want to paint. and i'm really looking forward to his next video.

this was the fist video i watched

this is the final piece. its called Onawa.

i found it interesting that he uses a rag to wipe some of the paint off, he also in some of his pictures lets the paint run which creates an interesting look. i used this technique on my sanctuary picture for the ice and it worked really well. it was really messy but fun. i may play around with that technique again :D

for more of his art workhttp://michaelshapcott.deviantart.com/ and his videos http://www.youtube.com/user/redlung.

anyway its late and i have work in the morning.

happy drawing/writing/whatever you guys do.

haggis