Bird Dog Revisited

This has been a full art day, but Bird Dog is all I have to show for it. Time just slips away! There are some new acrylics I've started in the studio but they will be kept under wraps until I feel I've achieved what I'm setting out to do. Last night I ordered some linoleum blocks so I can print on my paintings. I'm excited about that.
This is the first time I've used Wallis paper and I can't say yet whether I like it. Of course, it is less expensive than Pastelbord, but then there are the framing expenses. So either way the artistic life is not cheap.

Slaving Away

Work in progress

WIP

This is just a peek at what I'm working on now. The colors can't be described.

The New Kid
CP
8x10

I started and finished this today.

Man in Alaska
CP
8x10

I must be dense. Why do these pictures keep loading over my text when they were uploaded after my text? Grrrrr. Well, this man was sitting in the sun in Ketchikan and I just had to take his picture. He was actually very sexy....his personality was great. And this is the very first cp I did on pastelbord, well, the first anything I did on the board except for Nicole Caulfield's class on the cruise. Nicole opened my eyes! I couldn't wait to get home and drive all the way to VB to load up on the board and I've been using it ever since. I don't think I'll ever go back to paper.

Actually, when I'm working I lose track of time. I bet that happens to many artists. Today I spent eight hours in my studio and I could stay longer but I got hungry. I kept switching back and forth today...acrylics, then pencil, then acrylics,on and on. I just couldn't work fast enough. I love days like this! I got a nice surprise today. I had applied for excess art materials at Golden (my sister Janice told me about this) and I got an email asking which colors and how much I'd like. Wow! All I have to do is pay shipping. I can't wait to see what they send me. It's supposed to be paint they can't sell for various reasons, like demos, or opened or damaged containers,etc. Exciting!