Well, as you can see, I was trying to take a photo of the new watercolor I sketched out and have been working on but little Dudley decided he wanted to be in the photo as well. No matter what I did, he would come over and lay down on my watercolor paper and then come up to me and stick his nose right in the lens of the camera. I really was able to get some adorable photos of him, without even trying. So, he's getting featured in my blog, along with the painting and why not, he is definately cuter then anything I've been showing in my blog!!
I love to take walks for exercise and the other day while I was out, I collected lots of fall leaves. They really inspired me to create another fairy painting to incorporate the leaves into. I sketched out a fairy on my 9 x 12 watercolor block. A block is a pad of watercolor paper, where all the pages are attched to one another. When you are finished with your painting, you cut the piece of paper off with a letter opener or dull knife. This allows you to paint without the paper buckling while you work.
I'm using quite a lot of metallic paint on this one and the fallen leaves she is standing behind, are very colorful. I'm actually halfway finished with the painting now and will post photos of the finished piece when I'm done. It's not unusual for me to work on a couple of different watercolors at once, it gives me variety . Right now, this small one is giving me a much needed break from my larger painting. When I start to take things too seriously, I need to take a step back and take a break. Working on something different can really do the trick.
"Orb Fairy" an acrylic diptych, is the latest piece of art to come out of my studio and my first piece of fairy art in a very long time. I really enjoyed the experience so much that I plan on creating more fairies in the future.
If you read my last post, this was the piece that I mentioned was supposed to be a garden sculpture painting. I had wanted to do a series of pieces with different garden sculptures and also fairies but had decided on sculptures first. Once again the canvas spoke to me when I was creating this painting and I realized once the sky and ground were painted, they looked too mystical and magical to not be a fairy painting so.....here we are, my first fairy in quite a while. I then had to decide what kind of fairy I was creating and focused in on glowing , floating orbs of light, some even radiating from the ends of her hair and suddenly, Orb Fairy was born.
I hope you like "Orb Fairy" as much as I enjoyed painting it. 
