Taking Pictures Of Your Art

Thank goodness for my guest room! Even though I feel like my townhouse gets a lot of light, it really hit me today that it doesn't have the best lighting scenarios. I had to go all the way to the 3rd floor where the bedrooms are to get some nice bright morning light. Even then I'm not positive this the best possible photo I could get of my work.  Either way here is my first official completed artwork. Now I have something to put on my site. I have one other that I need to take a photo of that I did many months back. 

Good Sketches Don't Equal Good Paintings

The Sketch

Yesterday I posted my sketch for a watercolor I was working on. I loved the sketch...loved it a lot! Well I didn't bother to check the facial measurements when I did the sketch on my watercolor paper. Resulted in a totally different looking girl. I'm not too pleased. I'll have to take a better photo in the morning. It's okay but not what I wanted. 

The Final Watercolor

More Starting Less Finishing

I've been practically sitting here all day. It's been over a year that i have been wanting this artist/craft space or myself. I've had the desk or a long time and even the shelves were bought but just not installed for maybe over half a month. Finally I had enough and needed my space where all my art things were in reach.

All those note pads are my calculations on this art fair I am looking into doing in November. It would be my first art fair! Since I'm starting from scratch the price is a bit shocking. I'm a bit worried that I won't be able to do the fair because prints and having them matted is more costly than I thought. 

Nope I haven't finished the acrylic painting from earlier of the fox girl. Instead I started a small watercolor just to try to get more art faster. 

Here is my sketch or the watercolor above. Not really alike but hoping it comes out good. 

Working On It

It seems the past few days when I am looking forward to my daughters nap time it's been very delayed. She's really testing my husband and I lately with going down for nap and bedtime. Even though nap started very late today I still pulled out the paints. No more excuses right! I knew once I started to paint it would just flow. If it didn't flow I would just throw it out the window.

 

 It has been forever since I have painted with acrylics. Acrylics dry so fast, plus the sett up and clean up took a bit of time. Once I started I was in my comfort zone. The past year or so I have focused on getting better at watercolors. Well watercolors stress me out. Acrylics make me very zen. 

5 hours later I had ever bit of white covered. My main goal for the day was to just get an underpainting. I could stop at an underpainting. Still have lots more detail to add in. The face is at the stage that I like it but want to fix some and make it look more realist yet I'm scared to mess it up. The lips need major work. The neck shadows I'm not happy with either but I'll need to dwell on them more. The background is just a base so it'll be worked on too. Not too sure what to do with the section in front of her...detailed leaves, or not detailed leaves.

Starting My Art Career

 

 An artist has to start somewhere. It's been a very slow start with lots of researching and inspiration. I'm an obsessive researcher. I've spent days looking up artist mothers, selling your art, and starting an art business. While I've had moments of feeling overwhelmed this time I am really motivated to just do it. Every year I go down the road of wanting to make my talent and my dream of being an artist a reality. Now I have gotten to the point where it has hit me that if I never start and then keep on painting I'll never be an artist. Instead of making excuses for why I haven't made any painting I'll just be doing them. 

I've got a sketch down of a fox girl to paint in acrylic. Hoping there will be a Wildlife Girls series if this Fox Girl comes out nicely. My acrylic painting abilities are very very rusty. 

It's important that I have a start to this journey.Today I even made the base for my artist website. I can't make cards without a website to direct everyone to! Even blasted my blog on my personal facebook page. There is still lots to set up and perfect. Facebook page, twitter, tumblr, whatever other social media, etc. First the most import part needs to happen..and that is the paintings.