Melinda II - WIP

Detail - Work in progress - Melinda

Long time, no blogging. But I've been working on this painting lately. It's a new version of my old drawing "Melinda". Been messing a lot! Well... At least I'm trying.

"Starstruck" - completed!

I'm done messing with this one... Just playing with paints (she looks like a horse...). Now I'll be moving on. (Sorry about some shine in the images.)

"Starstruck"

Starstruck - WIP II

"Starstruck" - Work in progress #2

Haven't been painting the last few days, but made some progress this evening. At my age, this may be the best way to spend Saturday nights.

First Painting - WIP

I'm choosing to call this my first painting. It's the first time I've gotten a bit closer to painting something half decent. I still have a lot to learn - and I really messed up her skin. But I will finish this one, and then move on to the next one... I'm learning. :-)

Beauty in nature - Just for fun

This one was made just for fun. I just wanted to test my Derwent Coloursoft pencils, and do some burnishing with colored pencils. I loved this technique, but I did several mistakes while testing. It's really visible where the skin meets the sky on her chest. And the tree is way too thick! Haha... well, as I said - it was just for fun. I will draw more with colored pencils from now. I just regret buying a small set of only 24 colors. I always want more, more, more...

Bryggen, Bergen... Done!

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Cheeses! Thought I'd never get this one done. It's just 29x15 cm, but it took... like... forever. I could probably go on drawing details, but I was so tired of it all. I don't think I could draw one single line more...

"Bryggen, Bergen" - Copics Multiliner 0.03 and 0.1 on Daler-Rowney drawing paper.
 

Why is painting so hard!

Why, why, why? Why is painting so hard? A few times every year, I decide to paint a picture. I'm always confident it will turn out awesome, but it turns out crappy every time! It's just so diffcult! How do they do it? It looks so easy, but I just can't get a grip on it... It's so annoying!! Argh! I think my new year's resolution should be learning how to paint. At least ONE half decent picture during my lifetime. Going back to gnaw on my brushes in frustration now...