I never got around to posting this, from early July.
Such a tiny embroidered face looked...wizened. But I decided to just finish anyway, because I knew of no rule precluding a tiny feather-cloaked lady from being wrinkled. Er, the cat hair is, ah, for scale.
No embroidery since then, as six weeks ago I (sprained?) two fingers on one hand and they still don't work right. Frustrating in a lot of ways, including that the weather is perfect for schlepping and organizing, except you can't do that one-handed. I had planned on doing the outdoor closet so I could install a hook to hang my bike, and I need to repot some plants, such as the hens & chickens the jays keep vandalizing.
Instead, I've read a lot, and managed to start getting back to painting. Hence the pods. Here are the next two stages:
Time for the little brush on the black and white painting; I think one more session of black and white before I add color. The colored painting...I'm somewhat stymied. I accidentally made a large pepto pink - yikes. Maybe it will help to get an apple to model for me. I need more practice figuring out how the different paints work together...which is after all the reason for these studies. And seeing the pictures all together reinforces my niggling suspicion that the last time I worked on them I made them worse. Some of it is my photography - even dry they're kind of shiny. And the camera seemed pretty unhappy with bright red and green.
1 comment:
Red and green together are very difficult for cameras since they're complementary and tend to want to cancel each other out.
Did you make a big bunch of pepto pink that you can save? If so, you can add something to small batches at a time to get varying shades of pink, and then you could do something fun with that.
I am quite fond of your pods. I love the way the peas inside look! Don't fret so much, just have fun playing with those paints. It will all make sense as you play more.
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