Okay! Back to work!
Here is the commission of Michael’s children that I had started before the workshop. It’s going to feel real good to have some quiet time in my studio to work on it some more. Here I am just starting to put some color on one of the boy’s faces………
But remind me to tell you about 5 days in Yosemite, a week of digging and putting up fences, the rattlesnake I ran into while weeding, falling in the lake AGAIN! and other things about my BORING llife!
The next workshop is the first of (September), with an extra day on the Monday after for backgrounds, and it is sold out.
Published by admin on June 11th, 2012 Tagged children and animals, In The Works, Kittens
June 11th, 2012 at 4:15 pm
This is looking nice….Wanting to see more… It is wonderful that your workshop is sold out. Lucky people! Will that be the last for this year?
Thank you so much for sharing your talent with us, Lesley!
June 11th, 2012 at 4:36 pm
I notice you have added a black background. Steve loves it .Will it stay black??
And, BTW, thanks for the details on your “boring” life! LOL! Looking forward to hearing more.
June 12th, 2012 at 2:31 am
Is your background done with soft pastels? Looks already beautiful …
June 13th, 2012 at 9:56 am
Mary,
No, one at my studio first of September, then the big one (photography and painting horses) up in Spokane the middle of the month and then the last one is at my studio the first weekend in December. We’re painting a wolf and have a model coming to the studio on Monday for an extra day of photography.
Thought about bringing a model in for the tiger (September) workshop too but it’s a very small town.
June 13th, 2012 at 10:02 am
Kay, tell Steve it’s going to stay dark but adding some diffused trees/green at the end.
And, I will get you details on my “boring” life as soon as I have time to go through some of the photographs to go with!!
It’s interesting. In the last workshop there was a lovely gal from Santa Fe and one day she said: “Wow! You sure have had the most fabulous life with your art!” and Abby, 15 years old, piped right up and said, “and she still IS!!”
It’s a good reminder sometimes because it IS my life and I just take it for granted that wonderful things are always on the horizon.
Or I’m knee deep in them.
June 13th, 2012 at 10:03 am
Rita,
Yes, my backgrounds are always done in soft pastel………..lots of area to cover!
June 13th, 2012 at 11:47 am
What is it with you and snakes? I still remember the blood curdling scream and the size of Tez’s eyes after you decided to investigate the snake sunning itself on the bike trail.
Even on the race bred quarter horse psycho I was riding, we didn’t catch up to you for about 2 miles!!
June 13th, 2012 at 5:05 pm
It’s looking great as usual!! I used black with dark purply blue underneath for a cat, and it ended up getting into the skin colour of my son’s arm, making it have a greyish look. How do you use black without it getting everywhere where its not supposed to. I didn’t have much trouble with the other colours,(I used a blank paper to cover up the areas that I had already done) but black was not good. Any tips would be appreciated.
June 14th, 2012 at 7:51 pm
Oh Wow!!! Will the model be a real wolf? Now I’m really chompin’ at the bit here.
I’m seeing a tint of green in the background color of this new painting. Did you add green to your black? It looks great.
June 20th, 2012 at 11:17 am
Roxana,
As everyone in any of my workshops knows…..we always add any strong blacks last so they WON’T do what you’re talking about. If you lay your black (especially the soft blacks) down first and then try to add a lighter color next to it…….well, it causes problems.
So do what I say, not what I do.
There are ways around every rule. But the “rules” are there for a reason and it’s real important to play by the rules until you become extremely proficient at ……….whatever it is you’re doing!!
June 20th, 2012 at 11:19 am
Marianne,
Yes, a wolf is coming to my studio
but only if we have at least 5 people sign up for that extra Monday of photography. So, keep your fingers crossed…………she’s beautiful!!!
June 20th, 2012 at 11:28 am
Sharon,
Don’t know what the thing is with snakes.
I was out weed eating in my flip flops and ran right into a-not-very-friendly rattle snake, hissing away at me.
Well, I REALLY don’t like being hissed at!!
First I ran up (it was below my deck, almost to the lake) and called Fred and he reminded me that he’s got an unusually strong fear of snakes. So then I sent a text to Larry and asked if he could kill the snake because I’ve never killed anything and didn’t think I could……….he wrote back that he was playing golf!
What is a girl to do?!!
So, I ran up the stairs and grabbed my paint ball gun (new present for my birthday and LOVE it!!!) thinking I would just pepper him with different colors and he would wander off, hissing as he went.
Fred came down within a safe distance to photograph and watch and with my first shot………………….!
I blew his head right off!!! Clean and straight off!! I was only about 12 feet away and WOW!!
Fred was boggled and I wrote Larry and told him “never mind, didn’t need you anyway!!”
So the lesson here is……….never, ever hiss at me!!
June 21st, 2012 at 5:07 am
Thanks Lesley for the information, but unfortunately I did do the black last. In the picture that I did, my son was holding the black cat, so that his hand and arm were right next to the cat. Perhaps I was just not careful enough, and need to practice more. Thanks again.
June 21st, 2012 at 8:34 am
LOL, Lesley! You are too funny, and very brave! I don’t like snakes either…they give me the creeps! You won’t find one of those in any paintings of mine! LOL!
June 21st, 2012 at 7:41 pm
Yikes… I’ll remember never to hiss at you! Sign me up for wolf day.
June 22nd, 2012 at 10:04 am
Haha, that made my day, Lesley! I always enjoy reading your “snake adventures”.