Newest Painting - Becky

 Becky, 5" x 7", acrylic and mixed media on cradleboard

This is Becky. I kind of love her moody angst. She is available in my ETSY shop now.

Newest Painting - Agnes

Agnes, 7"x5", acrylic and mixed media on cradleboard

Meet Agnes. She is my newest painting and she's available in my ETSY shop. Update: Agnes has SOLD

Bullet Journal Pages 212-213

Two weeks worth of To Do Lists = a whole lotta craziness.

Bullet Journal Pages 210-211

This week's To Do List. I kind of revisited an older GO TO lettering style (there's a quick tutorial on it here) and added different flourishes to each day.

Summer - The Process

Here are my WIP pics of this painting...

 It all starts with a sketch

 The drawing with chalk on a black gessoed wood cradleboard

 First coat of paint on the background

 First coat on the face

 This is always the step where I doubt the painting is going to "work". I call this the "Ugly Phase".

 You can see that the face has one coat except for that right eye--the second coat makes a huge difference. 

 Almost done. She just needs a few accents and the chalk to be wiped off.

Almost done. I will add a few more accents after this.

And the finished painting!

Bullet Journal Pages 208-209

Still playing with the brush pens. I have a love/hate relationship with cursive. Anyone else? I'd love to get better at it but I find myself always going back to print.

Newest Painting - Summer

I've been in a bit of a painting slump lately. But just recently I've felt the creative energy flowing again. This painting was hard to put in the mail. That's how I know I really like it! I wanted her to hang around my house a bit longer. But she is a gift for my niece so she had to get on her way.

This was my inspiration pic. This little cutie just turned 2 and she's the youngest of 4 but she is IN CHARGE so in the painting I gave her a crown. She's also the sweetest little angel pie you'll ever meet so I gave her wings.

Here she is with her painting. This picture makes my heart so, so happy!

If you'd like to see my process for this painting CLICK HERE.

Bullet Journal Pages 206-207

Gearing up for football Ohio State Football and also trying out some new brush pens.