Finished commission and some new pieces :0)

Hi guys thank you so much for your encouraging comments on my last post. I decided to tweak the painting just a little but didn't do too much more to it, I'm happy that it's finished now and plan to start on the next step of the commission, painting on the candles today! :0)

I've also been experimenting with some new ideas and designs in my clay jewellery and keyrings so thought I'd share my new creations with you too.

Love this matching set! The white clay also has sparkles through it so makes for a very pretty piece! :0)

I think this might be my new favourite piece. The clay and the vintage style findings work so well together :0)

And lastly these are my newest key rings!! :0) I'll be adding these cuties to my shop in the near future.
Hope you're all having a great weekend!!!!

Paint Party Friday - Commission

Hi guys this week I wanted to share with you a commission that I have been working on. I'm not sure it's finished yet but I'm at that point that I am reluctant to do anymore to it if you know what I mean.

I was asked by my client if I could do a painting for his nephews Baptism but in my particular style. He has also asked me to paint two candles but I haven't started those I'll share those with you later.

The figure is Jesus holding a baby although I think each person could find something different in it.

What do you think any tips or suggestions?

I've never painted this sort of subject matter before so I'm quite outside my comfort zone but enjoying the challenge :0)

My butterfly commission finally finished! :0) Paint Party Friday :0)

Here is my butterfly commission all finished. I think they look so pretty all lined up together. I'm really happy with how it turned out as it's my first commissioned piece where I have used oils. The green butterfly (colour requested from client) was a bit of a challenge as I wanted to make sure the butterfly stood out, so I added more blossoms in the background. I reached a point where I wasn't sure if it was finished or not but didn't really think I should add anymore. I think I had just stared at it for far too long. Do you ever feel like that?

Butterfly number 2 purple! :0)

Hi everyone, hope you are all having a good week so far, I thought I'd share with you my second butterfly in oils in the series of 3 that I am working on for a customer :0).

I'm really loving the vibrant colours of the oils and with each piece I'm feeling more and more confident with using them. I think I'm starting to get the hang of it.

The next butterfly I've been requested to do is green, I've been thinking about this one alot as green wouldn't have been my pick. I think on a blue background green will have trouble standing out like the rest but I do have a few ideas bouncing round my head about perhaps using a sunset and having the green one in the middle and just changing the background colour slightly in the other two (thanks to hubby for that cool suggestion). The other idea I have is to sit the butterfly on flowers showing no sky background so watch this space as I have no idea how it's going to turn out yet.

Any way here are some progress shots of the purple one :0)

 I started by painting the background in arylic paint and letting it dry. I love the texture that this creates.

 Then it was just a matter of layering the paint, letting things dry in between  etc.

 I'm really happy with the end result and can't wait to see all 3 together :0)

This last painting is just something fun that I was working on in between drying times. I'm going to have another go at this one before starting the final butterfly, I find it helps to take a break when you are doing a bigger project just to keep things interesting :0)

Finally my commissioned painting is finished!

Hi everyone, I'm so excited to finally be able to show you my finished commissioned piece. I was asked to include the 3 children and was told that the girls would get such a kick out of being mermaids so I decided to go with 3 separate canvas' that can either be hung together or in their seperate bedrooms. With the little boy I decided that rather than make the poor thing a merman I thought a bit of humour might work well. So I decided to have him playing with/getting a hug from an octopus heheheh. I really enjoyed working on this one, it was very time consuming in that I wanted their faces to be perfect and I wanted to work in lots of detail, that it was very different from my other work that I've been doing lately. It was a nice balance I think.

The group shot was hard to take as it had a gloss varnish over it and so was hard to take a photo in the sunlight but I just wanted to show how it would look hung together, the individual shots show the colours much better. I used iridescant paint over the girls clothes and tails to give them some extra sparkle and I also used texture paste here and there.

I'm very happy with how they turned out and was very pleased when my client picked them up today, she was going straight home to hang them :0)

Sunday Sketch - First sketch of my new commission

Hi guys well this week I've been working on a sketch for my new commission. I have been asked to do 3 portraits of a lady's children. She has two girls and a boy and both girls have asked to be mermaids, so I decided to paint 3 seperate paintings but when they are put together make one picture. This is the first one that I am working on. I'm thinking of making it a mixed media piece and painting the face on paper then sticking it to the canvas as I feel like I could get a more accurate likeness rather than painting it straight on to the canvas. I'm going to do many more sketches of this in preparation and won't start the actual painting til I come back from my trip as I think once I start I will probabaly want to finish all 3 relatively close together. Anyway here is my sketch. If you would like to see more Sunday sketches click on the tab at the side of my page and you will be able to see work from many more artists!