My thumb is as good as new now! Lots of new skin.... wow, it looks about 20 years younger than the rest of me! :D
Wanted to share a little painting I just finished. I love this girl! The colors turned out beautifully... wasn't sure as I haven't really ever used this color combo before.
Yes, my thumb is GREEN! LITERALLY green!!! I am *not* a gardener!
I have an infection in my thumb most likely from paint or some other little tidbit I've smashed in there when painting! I love using my fingers so I guess it was bound to happen. It really hurts so bad... hard to believe a little thumb can hurt so much. Anyway, I lanced it myself (EEK) and.... om.... well, lots of green goop came out! I'm so sorry if I'm grossing you out here! ;o)
I took Suzi Blu's Petite Doll class... my theory of art is that there is always always always something new to learn! Suzi's class was a BLAST and I learned a lot of really COOL new stuff! I started using some different paints that lend themselves to layering more and also got the beeswax out again! Here's one of the "layered" paintings:
I really believe this is my medium!!! I'm not great at moving the paint around in one layer and blending in one layer. I tend to overwork things and then you get the dreaded MUD! Laying is right up my alley as I do not have a hugely long attention span, so I can do one thing and the next thing is soon to come. The exception to this is that I seem to spend a huge amount of time on the face shading. I like it perfect, which I wish I could somehow STOP that as I think sometimes it's too perfect and not enough CHARACTER, kwim? I struggle to sort of "let go" when working on the face. Maybe I should just accept this.
Anyway, thanks for reading this far... here's a cute little video that made my heart sorta flutter!
It's that time again... to enter this one please respond to this post and include one of your favorite etsy shops! Thought this might be a fun way for all of us to check out some shops we may have never seen before. :)
I'll have the drawing on October 28th! I'll draw two names this time!
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