Sorry to be so slow at writing lately. Life happened and I have a secret project I have to work on but as soon as its done i will continue on with the blog. I will be returning to the portraits asap so stay tuned for more detail.

a little bit of change

So I changed things around just a bit. I did have it so that I would be making 365 pieces of art for the year and I probably will still do that ...but...I got sick of making junk. I have enough junk in my house that I dont need to add to it. So I will be instead working on art for 365 days, putting in my time and some days I will make more and some days there will be less. One things for sure I want some kick ass pieces so I dont want to be rushing around saying things are done when they still need a few more hours or days to work on them. I am doing my portrait series at the moment but had to set them aside while finishing up the pictures for the book. Plus I was sick on and off and now I am back and the portraits will carry on into April. I am working on Heather Annes so far and I think it is going to be my favorite of the bunch. Ill change my mind when I start the one after hers. Looking to get some work together for a showing. I think I can get people to come to my show more for the baked goods then the art. We will see.
Teresa

Ilustrations for book.

I used an old picture for one of the illustrations and some I didnt use. Thee are the ones that are going to possibly be in the book.

March 9th 2011

Well I took a couple of days off to attend to being sick and to finish off the illustrations for the book. Hoping they will be happy with them because I am not doing them over. Infact I think that is who is calling now so we will see. Maybe they will go with someone else instead. Going to carry on with the portraits now.Teresa

cousin Mike

Can you tell we are related? I love this picture, I find it really says alot about his character. This was done on Vellum paper with acrylic paint. It really is a challenge to get a painting done when you have a one year old who wants to be constantly picked up. I hope he gets a kick out of this. Teresa

Leah

Ill probably do another one of Leah in the end maybe a painting but for now this will have to do. This one was done with charcoal on Vellum paper. I used a black and white picture of her in what appeared to be a pirate suit.

Kriss

Kriss had a really strange picture of herself. It was a good picture but the colors were all very odd making her appear yellowish and her hair gave off a pinkish tone. I liked it though so I chose this one and had fun with the colors. I used cardboard and acrylic paint for my medium.

Julie

Julie was the second portrait I did. I used white and black acrylic paint and water color paper. Just incase you are wondering I am very limited in materials lately.

Nicole C

I think I did a brief write up earlier about what I used for her portrait. A mixture of regular pencils, color pencils and water color pencils. I just used computer paper which Is not a good material when using any amount of liquid. I think I will be returning to this one in the end and redoing it in water color and water color paper. Ofcourse I might try the seaweed picture instead. Nicole knows what I mean.

Kriss and Leah

Just finished Leahs portrait tonight. I used charcoal on Vellum paper for my materials. Last night I did a portrait of Kriss with Acrylic. Im looking forward to posting these to see everyones reaction. Hope to get a lot of coments. I am so rusty but Im finding working on a different project a night a good way to force myself back into things. Anyone whose interested should know the photos will be up tomorrow night. Teresa

Nicole and Julie

Working on the Portraits today and yesterday. Wishing I Had more time to spend on them then just a couple of hours that are constantly interrupted. I'm a little rusty but I enjoy making them and also its good practice to keep things moving. My sister still has my camera so i wont be posting any pictures till at least next Monday. So far Ive done Nichole Cs portrait and Julies. For Nicholes I used some pencil and water color pencil and also some regular color pencils. Should have probably used a grid to make it more exact. The paper it was done on was just regular computer paper. Not the kind you want to be adding water too. Theres somewhat of a resemblance there but I think once all the rest are done I might take another shot at this with some actual water color paper and paints. That is If I can ever find where I put the paper that seems to have disapeared. Julies is done on water color paper that was reused from another little painting that was never finished. My son attempted to draw on it and gave up and left the paper for me to throw away. I reused it instead with some black and white acrylic paint. I like the idea of it and it reminded me of some old NSCAD portraits we had to do of ourselves in school. Not the best work ever but not bad for the amount of time I have to work on it. Teresa