Season Plates

Four plates together

This weekend I worked on laying out the last three illustrations for The Four Season plates. I love the way they all came out. I'm letting my eyes rest a bit before I start adding paint. Once I start adding paint things really start to change. I should scan each one properly in case I mess up something in the painting stage (like I did with Clytie's hands a few weeks ago). Once I paint over the drawing I'm lost for a spell.

Winter

Summer

Spring

Waiting...

I admit it...I'm hooked

3:15 PM...

...and time is really going slow as I wait for my niece to get home from school. She has promised to bring me the next book in the Twilight series to read. Ok, I admit it....I'm hooked. It wasn't my fault though! I sware! It was a combo of discovering Paper Back Swap online, which rekindled my urge to read, and finding that silly book about a queen vampire named "Betsy" on top of the garbage heap on the street about a month ago.

After I finished "Undead and Unwed" I decided to trade it in on PBS for another vampire book. "Why not dive into Twilight?" I thought. That was four days ago. I've never been so hungry for words or to find out what happens next in a book. I never ever read that fast. I never ever had a reason to. My mind is always on a million things with a combo of drawing or painting or creating something playing along side thoughts at the same time. It's like a room with multiple TV screens all playing something different. It is very rare for my mind to focus on one thing for any length of time. Focusing on Twilight, and only that, was actually very therapeutic for me.

Commission for a Mini Ravenhill

Ok, ok, I admit it...I also begged my niece to bring over the dvd. I need to see the movie too. And while I sit and watch it tonight I'll have two pieces by my side to work on. A foal that is being painted a flashy appy and the Mini Ravenhill to blue roan appy. Although, I'm thinking I doubt I'll get much work done on them, but the intention will be there.

3:25 PM...

...still waiting....

Lazy Day

Lazy afternoon in the garden

It was a lazy day yesterday. I put on my comfy green pants and ugly pink shoes (which are probably the most comfortable shoes I have ever owned) early in the day and the day got progressively more lazy. I didn't feel like doing art at all. I was more content to play with my son and watch him play in the garden. I read a bit in the sun too.

I got more and more exhausted as the day dragged on and rest couldn't come soon enough, so I put myself to bed as soon as I put my son to bed. I believe some beauty rest was just what I needed because I woke this morning happy and ready to take on the day. No comfy greens for me today. Today is a day of get up and go and with that...I'm off!

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