background going in

I've decided to go with the tornado havoc in the background on this painting to represent the clients original intent to have a painting about remembering the goodness of the "angels " that came after the tornadoes.
I still need to put in the sky and the ground, and touch up a few details here and there.
I will devote all of Monday to this painting and hopefully it will be completed then. If that is what God intends.

Daddy Angel Update

Boots and chainsaw in. Wings need tweaking/shading. I have a background sketched in but I'm not totally convinced that's where it needs to go. I think God keeps leading me to something more ethereal. So, we wait for clarity. This is the hardest thing for me to do.

Angels Among Us

Back in April of this year, Alabama suffered through some terrible tornado storms which ripped through the lives of many of my friends. One of those friends, Barbara, had a similar storm story as we ourselves did. That being the almost immediate help provided by our neighbors and by strangers alike. They came with their chainsaws and backhoes and cleared fallen trees from homes and helped us put our lives back together. Never asking for payment, never expecting it, just lending a loving hand. Barbara's mother's home and property were cleared by such "Angels". They came and they went. I'd like to think that one real angel in particular was in charge of this clean-up, Barbara's father. So, I begin this painting with him and his token chain saw slung up over his shoulder, leading the charge.

The boots have yet to come in, and the background. I will share progress reports as this painting comes to life.

Stevie Ray Vaughn's Guitar

Next on the easel! As I promised, a series of stringed instruments. This one chosen by my husband who is a major fan of Stevie Ray Vaughn. He wanted his guitar done. So it begins.

Another days work at the studio produced some more recognizable features of a guitar. As you can sort of see this guitar is all beat up. The varnish is all but strummed away. Scraped and worked out through the pulling out of the soulful blues rhythm rifts that only Stevie could do. All the fine detail and his initials are next. A little more scaring of the surface as well, oh lets not forget those soulful strings!
Stay tuned for the finished product.

Steel Guitar

This is the hopefully the first in a series of stringed instruments that I will be doing. This first one is the 'Airline String Guitar", 12"x24"acrylic on board. It has a glazed surface and will be framed, as all of them in the series will. For the music lovers out there!

Next Furniture Project

As you can see, this little table is a bit dated! Like the 80's! So, since we are well past the "crafty" phases of home decor' I decided to re-do this little table.

So, off to the gallery yard this one went for a quick sanding and spray of a light turquoise color, followed by the edges rubbed with mineral spirits to show the darker color underneath.




The finished product! Still drying hard yet, so I can't dress it up with anything. I know it looks lonely all by itself there.
Now for that awful wallpaper! ;)

My Latest Painted Project

While not a canvas, I have been busy painting on other surfaces. This table really needed updating. I asked my friend Michele Lee who does a lot of furniture finishes how to do this and she gave me a few pointers and away I went! It really wasn't all that difficult and I have already got another piece in the house I've got that needs re-doing! I will try and get that piece done tomorrow and I will post if it turns out alright. Well, even if it flops I'll show you the end result!