Changing the color value in a painting

I made some corrections on values in this angel painting. Here's a comparison from before and after, what do you think?

Click HERE or the image to see the video on how I painted it!

Color Value is so important when you are painting and don't feel like the page or canvas is working, like, something is missing. Try re painting More contrast in your color value!

Paint Angels with Collage Art!

Paint Angels with Collage Art! Mixed Media fun! Super easy angels with collage paper! Paper craft in an art journal page!

Welcome to our last fun collaboration for 4 artists – 4 seasons. We had a lot of fun with this collaboration, but now it is time for something new. So enjoy this hop, and hopefully we see you next year over at #Letusstartwithart, a monthly Videohop with even more creators.

So hop now to the next contributor, when you are back on my channel you have completed the hop ♥

This is the finished page on my journal with the collage angels and a bit of glitter

Watch the video HERE

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Acrylic painting tutorial, speedpainting and Angel

I hope you have fun watching this speed painting Art collaboration.
It is an angel, click to watch the process!
Here: https://youtu.be/HyE_aUT3xfA

Here is the sketch for you to paint one. ♥

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Here is the video

I am finally posting the video here in the blog. Thanks for visiting!



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running late! face 26 of 29

wow.... I made my face on time, then I forgot to scan to post! :oP
I am currently working on a texture online workshop... so excited about it! So I got carried away and almost didn't make it to the blog  \(Ͼ˳Ͽ)/
Anyway, remember the barely there face of a couple of days ago? Here she is, wings and all:

I am very happy with the result ٩(^‿^)۶

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5th faces is a folk angel

I decided to try folk art. This is the page I made for Selina in New Zealand's book. It arrived from Angenita in the Netherlands, I will mail it to Gina in England. I ♥ traveling journals!

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Old friend Re-Worked

So, I have been reorganizing and downsizing (more like pushed to do so, but that's another topic altogether!) and last night after I packed some and moved some more stuff, I found this oil painting. It was based on a photo I took of an angel I bought and arrived broken. I took the photo to tell the seller and he told us how to fix it.

OK, so I think the painting was ok, but back in those days I didn't know much about highlights and it didn't really have the bright colors I like:

It was literally like the photo, and it was a wooden angel, so the painting looked a bid tired, a bit dark... But me, being me, I couldn't make myself destroy the poor thing.

So, like I was saying, last night I got my oil paints, after years! They are water mixable, and changed the painting a little, can you see any difference?

I added highlights in hair and skin, made the eyes more alive, and I still will add more lavender to the wings and a bit of pink in the face:

I am liking how it pops out of the blue sky there....
Excuse the beige background, it is the tiled counter :oP
I didn't use an acelerator to dry fast, so now it is sitting there with a "wet paint" on the mantle ha!
Well, how are you doing in your 29 faces so far?

Things that make me happy

The first lily of the year:

 

My wood carved angels:

My art supplies:

Painting!

Did I mention that I have been painting a lot?   (✿◠‿◠)

Oh! And our goofy cat ...


And of course, my online friends! Thanks for visiting ♥
Now you tell me things that make you happy!

Cupid Angel

Took me forever and a half but it is done, edited, and just waiting for YT to finish uploading. I just didn't want to wait longer to make my post here because as it is, I'm late to wish everyone a Happy Valentine's day! This is the little thing I was working on yesterday and today.
I will add the video as soon as it is ready and will have a larger image in my doll blog :o)

 My hunny brought me roses and I, in exchange, burnt his dinner to a crisp... :o(
 Isn't that always the case? Today of all times, I wanted to make something really yummy, and it was, I guess, but a bit too crispy.

I hope everyone had a nice love and friendship day, hugs! ♥

Outlined

FOr today, I just have an outlined drawing. I saw this awesome painting and I just had to try it! Not sure if I will add color to it. Maybe later.
My version is not well proportioned but here it goes....

The original painting is absolutely wonderful, I just don't have the author :o(

 

Face 9 of 29 and a bunch more

 By now you probably heard they found a second Monalisa, a few months ago.... the colors are more vivid, basically the same lady.
But, did you know they found a third Mona??? Yes! The only difference is that this one is tiny. It was found in my art table ho ho ho

This is the sketch from yesterday... but somehow doesn't look Mona Lisa enough.
Will have to do something about that. :o)

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WIP angel and another challenge!

Here's the finished little angel. I was going to make it like my little statue, looking like rough stone, but I didn't like it, so I gave it more human skin tones. I love the background color! It's fluid acrylic and medium, so it is really slippery and translucent. The scanner can't quite capture the look of it.

This month, I will be working on Modigliany.  
It's All About Mo  Not "me", mo!

Want to play with me? Here's the plan:
*You will select 4 paintings of Modigliany.  See some HERE It doesn't matter that 15 people do the same, and only one does another. Each person picks the four they like best.
*You will work each week in ONE painting, so you have 7 days to sketch, layer, paint, repaint... and finish.
*Based on his work, with your twist. Or if you want to go as close as you can, that's fine too.
*Post at the end of the week, which by now will be less than 7 days, but let's say every weekend. Easy piece lemon peasy.

Modigliani has beautiful complicated but simple backgrounds. Many of his portraits have long necks and show eyes with no definition of iris and ball.... so frustrating for an obsessive eye-person like me, but so mysterious!

No one is asking for perfection... just have fun and discover something new in you. Make it yours, the challenge is to enjoy it. 
UPDATE It is perfectly fine to copy the masters as an exercise, to improve or technique or to practice. But It is not ok to copy any image to sell, that is infringement of copyright as we all know, but I wanted to  take note here :o)

Come grab the challenge button if you want it, in the side of the blog. (Copy text, paste in a html/java gadget)
Let's see where our brushes take us!

Day 28, still working on angel

Here's where I am with the angel painting. I am having fun!

 

And here's the girl with the braid, I am still working on here, needs more shadowing on her face, however it looks much better with the black line gone. I painted on the braid, neck and face, and still will add more deeper color to some areas:

 

By the way, in case you have not heard, starting next month (2 more days) they will challenge all the google stuff, gathering sites, privacy settings etc, to give you a "better online experience" but also, to snoop on all your searches, keep a history and gather MORE information from their group of sites (youtube, google+, fb, and some other places. So anyway, if you don't like the idea of loosing privacy and anonymity, you might like to turn it OFF by following this steps HERE

Tomorrow I will post the last of this challenge. ♥

Palette and reworking a painting

So.... I was not quite convinced with this lady, her hair kept bothering me, and although I wanted her kind of floating, all of a sudden her floatingness bothered me too.

  

I went, grabbed more paint and went at it with passion. Started with the background, then the hair. And I added a wing, and wrote on it, for a good measure  (^_,^)

I am happy now!
This is a sample of the palette I used for this last step, but I did not have the first selection of colors to photograph.

Anyway, this is my post for the Palette and Paint blog, check it out HERE
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It's not you, it's me. . . . .

Over time we change, right? Our style changes, our likes and dislikes change... What you loved to do once, it's not "you" any longer... What you painted before has transformed to what you paint now. It's still a little bit of you, but there's more new you to come.
What do you do with old paintings that is not "you" anymore? Destroy them? Donate them? I don't think I can repaint, at least not all of them.

I don't see myself burning them like Gary (I'm not that brave plus I live in California and don't want to get a fine for burning!) lol I know some artists routinely go and destroy what they don't like anymore but I don't see myself doing that any time soon.

At this point I am thinking of giving them away to someone that likes them, just pay the shipping....? If anyone is interested that is....! :oD

It can be anyone from anywhere, just as long as they like the painting, they want to have it and they agree on the shipping, which I am not planning to charge handling or anything..
Each is an oil on canvas, gallery wrapped.

This angel was painted after a wood sculpture I had that broke, and they way the wing broke looked cool to me so I painted it. It is a 18x24

This second one was actually painted on top of another painting I had made, but the first was a lean coat. 16x20 Portrait based on a singer named Sasha. Update: Sasha is not available anymore, she is going to Oregon :oD

Next is an exercise on texture with impasto, an adobe house. 16x20 oil on canvas:
Update: Not available anymore, it's on it's way to AZ and then MX :o)

I am not painting realistic anymore. I guess eventually I will go back to it, but for now I want to free up space and let them go.
So, if anyone is interested please make a comment saying which, separately give me the address so I can check the shipping (I am not going to publish the info here, don't worry) and will let the person know what the shipping is. Remember that if you live in another country you might have to pay some fee, some countries charge it, some don't.

Bunch of mini-dramas

I had all kinds of mini dramas happening to me this past week.
First, the new attic door project.
That was such a messy business! plaster all over the place, insulation fluff everywhere, tools and chaos till it was done and painted (and little me doing the picking up of course :oP)

See the anime on the ceiling? That was my kid, she turned into Michael Angelo when she knew she had a chance to doodle with her pencil on the walls lol

Then it was the shocking surprise to see my favorite doll attacked by Panzon, who thought he didn't have enough toys I guess. All her hair was gone :oC


Just look at that face! like saying "What? I'm a cat!"

Also, I participated in a Christmas secret-friend, and the beautiful doll sent to me arrived here broken. :o( I swear we have gorillas and rhinos managing my postal office. Gosh! Fortunately I think I can fix her, but it was a sad thing to see.


This is what I made for my Christmas secret-friend. A portrait of her doggy that went to doggy heaven few weeks ago.

Hope she likes it!! I had not been painting for a while and almost forgot the pleasure of dragging the brush on the canvas...

Another mini drama was last night when my DH decided to have a bit of peanut butter and dropped the slippery glass jar on the floor... agh! there were shards of glass miles away from the jar, took lots of cleaning. I have you know, it's not a fun thing to do late at night LOL.... at least no one was barefooted!

On the lighter side, I listed some items online in Etsy, and ebay.(See the right side bar) Let's see how that goes. :o)

I took some outside pictures of my tiny fairies and I am very happy with the results, so I will have more listings soon.... Wish me luck!

What do you think? I love the tree bark texture!