Carnaval!

Hi hi!  Another headdress lady, she's kinda coo coo!

Shimmer shammer in her feathers and jewels! More to come!

Maiko

Hi there! I was really enjoying the way the Chinese headdress painting came out, looking to other ethnic headdresses for inspiration, I thought of Japanese Geishas.  The hair pieces they wear are extremely elaborate works of art.  This painting is of a Maiko, the apprentice of a Geisha.  They have wilder hair pieces and more flamboyant robes.

This is the scanned image...

She has some metallic paint in her hair clips and robe.

I'm still meaning to do an Aztec one and perhaps an Incan one...Stay tuned.

Farewell My Concubine

In keeping with the headdress theme (this type is called a Phoenix Crown LOVE THAT!), I looked to China:

This is the scanned image, can't see metallic paint...

Angled photo to show reflective material

Angled photo

She's for sale in my Etsy shop.  One thing that's interesting about selling original works of art (don't worry, I keep high-res scans of them all), is you feel a tad bit of separation anxiety.  I'm trying to get over it because ultimately I love the idea of making art and moving on to the next piece, without too much sentimentality.  At the same time, I really love this piece (love all my others too!) so I hope she goes to a good home!

I think I'll do an Aztec one next...

More Metallic Ladies

I was looking at headdresses (something I'm a big fan of) because I wanted to use my gold paint. I came across Cecil DeMille's Cleopatra, which got me thinking of the Liz Taylor Cleopatra, and then Aztec, Egyptain and Greek designs! There are so many possibilities for my gold paint!

I can't think of a woman who wouldn't want to wear this.

Scanned Image

tilted photo to show glimmer

I gave her shinny eye shadow too, couldn't resist

 

After the headdress fun, I moved on to my next favorite thing, harem girls...

The epitome of Bored Girls

Shiny cuffs and chain top

 Thanks for looking! Click the link on the right under my photo to BUY artwork if your soul desires!

Metallic Watercolors!!!

I made an amazing discovery the other day: Metallic Paint.  I guess I knew of it's existence but for some reason I have never used it.  I picked up some metallic watercolor, not knowing how well it would work.  I have to say, I am quite pleased with the way it turned out.  It's so pretty in real life. Unfortunately, the scanner doesn't pick up the sparkle (that's rude) so I had to try and capture it with photos.  I don't think photos quite capture it either, it's very shimmery and shiny.  I am going to use it for robot ladies and space scenes but jewelry seemed like a good place to start.

Scanned Image

 

Angled photo to show the shiny

Here's a reinvented Cleopatra:

Scanned Image

Photo to demonstrate the glimmer

Shimmery collar

I will continue to explore with my new metallic paints! I LOVE them!

Celebrating Black History Month!

I gotta say, I love a pretty face framed my mountainous hair.  I just love the look of it, so in keeping with that idea I did some paintings:

I was thinking of these while painting them, btw, from the film The Shining. They have left a HUGE impression on me.

Secret Library Rendezvous!

I'm not quite sure what it is that's going on here but it's scandalous, most definitely.

Heaving bosoms and restrictive cravats, oh my.

Is it obvious that I'm currently reading Pride and Prejudice?

Sunday's Watercolor

Cats and Ladies, Ladies and Cats.  One in the same aren't they?  Here's two snotty examples now:

What mischief are they up to?

Masked Ball

Hi hi!
I was talking to one of my sisters about Eyes Wide Shut and how much I love that movie, next thing you know, I was making this loosely inspired painting:

 For sale in the Etsy site.  Also, I'm working on making an Etsy button so it will be very easy to get to it from here. More to come!

Etsy shop!

I opened my Etsy shop today.  You'll find artwork and my comic books there.  Here's a new watercolor (now available for sale) to celebrate!

"To boldly go..."

All original watercolor artwork will be available there. Notice, these are NOT prints.  Although I do plan on doing prints soon, for the time being you can own an original work of art!  I'll keep more coming.

Cold Night

Walking down the street in her tiny heels...

Clack clack clack clack

Slave to Love

Painted this one last night while listening to Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds album, Let Love In.

Cosmic Woman

It's so hard to stop painting the stars!

Would you drink from the Lady Cosmos cup?

I Capture the Scenes from I Capture Castle

Ok, so I recently started reading the book I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith.  It's one of those books I've been told to read for a very long time and I am finally getting to it.  You should read it if you have not.  Anyway, it's got great imagery and I am trying to get some of the images from my mind down on paper.  Here's the first I did:

It's OK.  It could use some more time and a better angle.  I will post more.

Watercoloring!

I've been using the tube type watercolors for awhile now, but recently was drawn to the ease of use of the plain ol' dry type watercolors.  I bought some "grown up" ones the other day and I am loving them so much.  Here's some of what I've been doing with them:

Came out very faint, but I like that effect...

I loved the lady on the right, the lady on the left is trying hard to stay upright, methinks...

 

Some sweet islander lady

I'm liking the "barely there" look of the paint washes, but I am also going to try and make some darker ones; easier to see.