second

I couldn't resist the second paper yesterday evening.
So, I painted instead of doing my homework first. I did
do the homework afterwards and I'm satisfied with both
results.

easter days

How was your Easter? I hope, you had a good time!

My son and I were in the cinema to watch a 3D-film
yesterday. The film was much better than I've thought
(I want a dragon as pet now :P) and watching it in 3D was
worth it. As per usual before the movie started we had to
watch some ads. One of them was the short version of
this 50m Euros Chamber of Crafts' ad (not sure, either
this budget included the print ads as well).



Today I finally painted again - I've been wanting to do
it the past weeks, but was always too tired. It's done
in watercolor without pre-scribbling, thus the patterns
sometimes go wonky. But I like to put whatever came
up in my mind directly onto paper (I'd stay in the layout
phase forever otherwise - I know me too well ;)).



And now.. off to do my homework (luckily we still had
a day off today :))!

me and painting

Painting with other materials than watercolor or gouache
is something that takes me a good amount on courage
to overcome myself. I'm not sure why. Probably I had
kind of a trauma LOL

Two times in my life I've tried oil painting, but I didn't
like the result (I know, I shouldn't give up after only two
times, but I didn't have the patience). I like to work with
acrylic better (especially since it dries quickly), but up
till now I couldn't say I like the feel of it on canvas. I
have some half-started or half-finished canvases sitting
here *sigh*

Before Christmas I bought a book of acrylic paper for a
project I had in mind, which doesn't have to do with
acrylic at all (it was just discounted and has the perfect
thickness ;)). Last midnight I suddenly got the desire to
paint. I hesitated, either I should paint on canvas or on
paper and finally decided to try the paper. I'm glad I did!

It's of course a pain, that the paper rolls whenever it got
too wet, but it flattened pretty quickly as the paint drying.
I painted until the morning (I was finally in bed at 6 am,
because I of course had to grab a TWest first ;)). The
paintings - which supposed to be mixed media work - are
not finished yet. I think, I'm procrastinating the next
step, because I'm afraid to overdo them.


the skin was pretty dry from felting, that it looked like
an elephant skin - noticed while waiting for TWest ;)

I was thinking about the next step, when I saw the soft
light through the curtain (oh, what I call curtain is not
really a curtain - it's a makeshift, which became an ultimate
solution up till now..). I got a sudden muse to paint it and
I did. It's far than perfect, but I really, really love it! The
first time, that I'm really excited about my acrylic painting
and so I dare to show it here (but maybe I'd change my
mind tomorrow..).