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Monday, May 05, 2008  9:46 PMopening 
Work in progress.Labels: drawing, illustration french toast girl 
#Thursday, May 01, 2008 8:00 AMRings  french toast girl
#Thursday, March 20, 2008 9:06 PMmasque 
Same tea wash as this lovely fairy (because Paul drank all the coffee!). I think she's attending the same ball as this lady.  Labels: coffee, drawing, watercolour french toast girl
#Sunday, January 13, 2008 9:37 PMfeathers and swirls 
The wonderful husband has fixed the computer! Scanner's hooked up (see?), email's on the way ... testing for prints not far behind. I've been spending my creative time at night drawing anything that comes to mind, and then painting whenever and wherever I can. These new paintings aren't supposed to be perfect, far from it. Anything that strikes my fancy gets drawn. I'm not obsessing over details, slavishly researching images (which I couldn't do once my studio's computer was down anyway), or waiting for the perfect moment. My only rules are that I try to draw or paint something every night, and that if something inspires me, no matter how small a detail, I have to give into it and let myself paint it somehow. This mostly happens with the kids in the afternoon; I can either put down a layer of coffee and let it dry in time to paint details at night, or the coffee wash has already dried and I can have an all-out painting session with the kiddos. (When you let go of perfectionism, you can work on paintings with three preschoolers around you, on your dining room table.) The absolute best thing is the watercolours I found for the kids that actually have GLITTER in them. Of course, we have been doing lots more painting lately so I can crack into their supply of glittery watercolours. The scan doesn't even begin to do it shimmery justice. A detail - you can see the glitter in the headband, and the gloves and some of the feathers are sparkly as well. 
Lots more to come. ♥ french toast girl
#Sunday, December 02, 2007 8:34 PMmagnets Last post about art for sale! :) $3 each, $.50 for s&h. Business-card sized, they look loverly on a fridge.  french toast girl
#Sunday, September 23, 2007 8:38 PMI paint on bark 
When I go on my morning walks, sometimes some bit of nature calls out to me - a handful of acorns, a smooth rock for my pocket, or the blank canvas of a piece of bark. french toast girl
#Thursday, April 05, 2007 8:12 AMPracticing 
I set myself a challenge one night to fill up my page with faces from the O magazine next to me. The first ones I did looked forced and had way too much detail. I've been studying up on one of my favorite illustrators of all time, Trina Schart Hyman (go look her up at the library, you will fall in love too) and noticed that though her pictures are detailed, she does much of it with color and not with lines (at least not in her faces). I finished the page and went back and reworked the heads I didn't like and simplified the heck out of them. Next step: watercolour! french toast girl
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