Nite Cap

Rare find.

Fascinator fancy in armidilo form.

A few cocktails and you will be

happy you had your armor on.

another few hours changing another old painting. second time for this one.
the top picture you can see the high gloss from the lighting where as in the second
picture i did not use a flash. the light plays well changing this picture expression from different angles.

Today I play here...maybe i will be back to really painting soon.
This is an old painting that i never finished. maybe i will add some more to it
another day. What is important to me is that i picked up my basket of paints and brushes and actually sat for a few hours painting. I have been dreaming of making a huge picture. Something that i can actually paint for a year.

THE MIND OF AN ARTIST

http://marlaakajake.redbubble.com/works
Vegas gets her close up.
Checking it twice.
Making sure i did forget to paint somewhere ,
which is why i photograph my work.
Much easier to see a small photo of a large painting.
and volia...another one bites the dust..
This one is 30 by 24. One of my smaller ones, but i happened to have an old canvas and 3 days of alone time to paint.

THE MIND OF AN ARTIST

3 days
"Don't Ask" is finished!
Can you say attitude?

RABBITS MOVE VEGAS

MOVING RIGHT ALONG

THE MIND OF AN ARTIST

DAY 2
I'm calling this "DON'T ASK"

THE MIND OF AN ARTIST

New painting started Saturday June 5.
It's been a long time coming.
I have two days to finish.
Her name is Vegas

SOLD TO THE LADY IN THE BACK

FINDING THE RIGHT FRAME.

This weekend I went looking for a few frames to work together foran Art Show I am doing this weekend.Boy or boy are the fast frame it places a rip off..well I guess I should of looked sooner, but still the frames I wanted were 600 and up. After almost giving up I found an auction house that I dont know why I went in there..but they had paintings already framed that they sold the frames off them separtely and for very nice prices! I think this is a great idea to share w/any readers out there.Here is Kate and Olivia which I have shown here if you back tract down on my step by step work.

CLOSET CLEAN

The ideas are finally here but I had to get the closet out of the way.
Golf tomorrow so maybe I'll start drawing on Tuesday.
Oh Honey Bunny(((((
I know you are laughing..
=(:-+)

WHAT WOULD YOU DO?

Clean your closets or paint a picture.
Why am i even writing this..answer should be easy, right?
Well you have never seen my closet if your answer was here...
and
Painting a picture is easy, but painting an original idea is another thing...
So...?

THE COCO PIGEON SISTERS

SISTERS

FIGURE 8

lots of tweeks and more to come.

here is what it will look like on a hallway wall.

Background now painted white and tweeked some more.

SHADES OF GRAY

Got the color sceme going now for the tweeking.

FROM TOE TO HEAD

I'M WORKING BACKWARDS

MORE FUN TO WORK MY WAY TO THE TOP

NO. 7

DAY 5

Now there are seven.

7 is my lucky number so i think i will stop here.

Maybe start to paint on Monday

day 2/3/4

Going to fill the room up with friends

Hello Day 3 and no. 3 friend

And then there were 4

Thanx to Margaret for emailing me and asking me if I'm painting...Well not yet,

but i'm getting closer.

Day 4 now has 5.

Room is filling up. Proportion is what today is about.

Changes made to sizing of 2 woman. Here is where the

computer comes in handy. Why do i see better on the computer

when the picture is right in front of my face? (:-)

FALL FASHIONS

sketch of unkown woman

Time for fall fashions. I noticed this year is such a mix of old and new. Flowers, stripes, plaids, long, short but not above the knee, wide leg, skinny leg, hats big time and so I'm going to design my sketch with mixtures of all of this...so far one lady with stripes, a hat, anklets on top of tights and suede boots that i once had and wore to death. I modified the really short pea coat that is in... to a longer sillouette and i think i will make it a heather tweed. The hat is a combo of a knit like tam with a real hat shape and short leather gloves. more tomorrow.

POWDER PLEASE

Since I did the last make over..I thought..why not do another make over from the
same grouping i have. This one I pretty much left alone with some improvements to her looks but i added more paint and heavier gloss again. I really like the heavy gloss for this type of picture.

Before:

After:

 After Again

Oh My Darling Clemintine

And now for some camera play...I love seeing what other colorways i may of liked also.

I do like the gold tones. I paint most all my faces in either grey or gold..so

this lighter tonal complextion might be something I can feel good about doing.

ACRYLIC PICTURE A RE BORN IN THE MAKING

I picked up one of my pictures that was hanging in a restaurant for a year now.
I thought i liked it, but now I'm thinking it needs a make over....so today
I am going to try to paint over it and make it more interesting. Here is how

it looks before above. I will work on giving her features a more chiseled look.

I do want to keep her in that glazed stare because this picture is suppose to grab

your attention when you walk into a room. My intentions were to compliment a
very modern stark house w/large walls and sleek furniture. I will post my re do
later today. I welcome comments.

And here is how she looks now:

The new "Clemintine" is finished.
I re painted everything except her ear....
Here is the finished product.
The gloss makes it look great with lighting.
She is ready for sale again.(:-)

WHICH SIDE IS THE RIGHT SIDE

Today I painted the sides of 5 canvases.

I usually paint the sides when I want the painting to wrap (pic above) and continue with
the flow of the picture,
But these painting will need frames or they can stand on their own (which I like)
if I paint the sides black or white or whatever the picture color is. I guess you might think this is a inexpensive way of framing before selling,,,, which it is... But.....
I also think this gives your work a clean look presentation.
Framing is a buyers decision. The home may be contemporary, modern, or old world..and by framing your art, you could detract from the interpretation of the eye of the buyer.
It's really all in

"the mind of an artist"

 which we all are in some way. (:-0)~

GOING FOR THE GOLD

IN HONOR OF OLYMPIANS AROUND THE WORLD AND  ALL WHO HAVE WORKED HARD AND SET THEIR MINDS ON WINNING...CONGRATULATIONS!!!!

BLACK AND WHITE

since i have not started a new painting i thought i would show you what

i did w/some of my work that lent itself into cards that said something

different in my black and white grouping. these pictures are also available w/out sayings on them as wall art or note cards also.

enjoy your weekend!

FLOWERS FOR YOU

WINGS

My friend said..."give her wings". She actually saw wings when they weren't there..
Now if that wasnt a sign of wings to come...

SHOE SHOPPING

well now i'm thinking she needs something else...maybe this is for a childs room.

how about a rabbit? how about a rabbit with the same helmet hat holding the

same flowers...can you tell this picture is just not me? time to play.

TO BE OR NOT TO BE

A HAT OR A HELMET?
TO BE OR NOT TO BE?
THAT IS SOMETHING TO
THINK ABOUT.

TIME TO JUMP IN THE POOL!

OLIVIA IS FINI~

I like this charcoal frame from the Bubble,

link above.

TEXTURE

I don't know if you can see it in this picture but the wall covering has a snake skin

feel to it. Trying to give this contempory piece a bit of a deco feel. just have to figure now what to put in the last three pictures and weather i want to make her hair a little wilder. anyone reading this can chime in. thanx!

KATE'S FRIEND OLIVIA

Kate's friend is Olivia. Painted most of the day.