Finished Paintings!

Alright! I finally finished my girls! I mean they weren't too terribly delayed, but I did take a break from them for a while to do other projects. I don't really have a great title for them yet. I know I don't have too many readers yet but I'm open for suggestions! When I started them I thought that I going to do something a little different with their hair, maybe something dark like patent leather straps. But you know, I really love them just simple like this. They feel a little more elegant

I want to start some giant panels that I've had since I got to Nevada. They're these huge 2ft by 4ft ghostly white monstrosities staring back at my when I go into my studio room. I *think* I know what to do with them, it's just such a big task that I don't want to dive into it just yet. It's a little scary! I've never done anything that big..... so...
erp. I have to do them though.

Trio and Tattoo News

Today I'm working on some more flash for Jason. Just some moths and butterflies, Sailor Jerry style. I sent him the ones I finished and he had some very kind words to say about them! He said he had to do a triple take on the ladies, and his wife mentioned I'm already better than the guys who worked in his old shop (as professionals). It really gives me motivation to keep going with flash and making them the cleanest possible watercolors. Jason gave me some great references today to really educate myself on the tradition and history of tattooing.

Lucky Supply Tattoo Museum
The Traditional Way
The Tattoo Archive

On to other things. I've been working on my trio of ladies, and I've got the base colors down and they're starting to look really nice. They're going to be striking when they're finished. I'm really in love with how the red orange vibrates off of the mint tones.

trio - progress

I've been working on this concept in my head for a little while. I got these cute little 5" x 7" wood panels at Wal-Mart for 97 cents each! I really wanted to do something similar to some paintings I did a while ago. But different of course. Check out my flickr, it's the three girls with the big pink bouffants. They recently got stolen, so that sorta sucks.

I'm really in love how these are coming out though.













I don't know which one is my favorite, ha ha!

Momi

I finished this about a week ago. This was originally a doodle I had done in the hospital while waiting for Aaron to be done with his job interview. I think I had done this back in January. I was recently scanning my doodles into the computer and Aaron suggested that I redo it on panel and really get it rendered and gorgeous. He was totally right.
So here's the original,


This is the start of the drawing on panel,



more progress....



And the final product yay!



I'm really glad I turned it into a painting. It was a good warm up painting for me, and it started me on a good road to other paintings. So keep an eye out, they're coming soon!