A Tale of Woe (and Triumph)

I learned a very important lesson last night. Never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never, never underestimate the time it will take to finish a project. Especially when it's a painting. Especially when you are beginning on that painting at 4:00 in the afternoon. Let's just say that when I went to school today, getting up at 6:00 am, I was running on a highly inadequate 3 hours of sleep. I was on auto pilot the whole day. Luckily, it was the last day of a trimester, so we weren't doing much. But I finished the watercolor! And it felt so wonderful! (Sadly, with the end of the trimester comes the end of my painting classes for this year, so I actually have to buy art supplies myself now. ;) Getting rid of my oil palette was strangely sentimental. We have been through much together........ Can you tell I'm sleep deprived?)

Crazy Crunch Week: Part 2

I have now been painting since 9 o'clock this morning and it's five o'clock. I am beginning to realize that finishing my oil painting before Monday is a lost cause. I will most likely be able to finish my watercolor, though. I hope that my teacher is lenient, and realizes how much effort I have put into this. Luckily, even after the class ends, I will be able to keep the leftover paint that is in my palette right now. The only downside is I have to get rid of the colors that I have already mixed. Oh, well. My new goal is to finish it before my school's art show in January. That's a little more realistic!(Pictures show amount of progress in one entire day. The one on the left is the before picture. Yeah, I'm a pretty slow worker Can you spot the differences?)

Crazy Crunch Week

In just over three days, I have to finish three different paintings. One is the sheep shearing portrait from my previous post, along with another watercolor. And then I have a massive oil painting. The only hope I have of finishing it on time is to take it home on Friday, work on it until ten at night, get up early Saturday morning, work on it all day, and then maybe even on Sunday too. Crazy, crazy week! If I die, put on my tombstone that I died for the love of art. :)

Sneak Peek

Well, this is a special sneak peek of my current project in watercolor. You can't really tell in the unfinished picture, but the guy on the right is in the process of shearing a sheep. The apron of the woman on the left is giving me some trouble, but overall I think it's going fairly well. I have less than a week before it's due in my class, so that will be an adventure. I'll keep everyone posted!