Day 14-15: Back to Business

Soooo, Christmas time was not the best time to decide to paint everyday :( although I thought about it every day I was WAY too busy entertaining family and friends to sit and paint.  I did paint some so I will count these pictures as days 14 and 15.  Hopefully I am back on track now and will start painting everyday again :)  75 days to go!!!  

Day 13, Something Fishy

Today I planned on painting fish on two of my kids but they had “better” things to do.  Kristin was the only one willing to be painted so I had to paint myself.  I am getting much better at loading my brush properly.  The next two days I will be in New York so I will just have a Wolfe Essential Palette and maybe a Tag rainbow cake with me but I will still be painting :) Wish me luck.

Days 9-12

Sooooo, Thursday I painted myself as a winter princess, Saturday I painted children at my parties and tonight I played around with small tear drops.  I also painted Kristin as a zombie doll.  After, I took her to the store so she could have some fun staring at folks.  I am having a lot of fun painting everyday and I can already see a difference.   Please sign up and follow me :) Good night!

Day 8, More Lisa Young :)

Today I watched a few more YouTube tutorials by Lisa Young. She is amazing! On the gingerbread man face I made my first stars...I really like them :) Tomorrow I think I am going to work more on fast lines and tear drops. I will also try to take some time and watch another class on FABATV.  One day soon I am going to paint my DH :)

Day 7, Snowman Eyes

Today I watched a YouTube tutorial by Lisa Young www.youtube.com/watch?v=2DM31EWyQbA I love this design so I tried it on Hannah (my 19 month old) first.  Later Amber (my 6 year old) wanted one too so I got to paint it again.  I didn’t have the same metallic colors Lisa used but I still love the idea and I hope to paint it again.   

Day 6, Check the Box

Tonight was one of those check the book kind of nights.  I used a Tag rainbow cake for the sponging and then painted a bunch of random lines.  I wish I would have used a lighter color for the lines.  I have no clue what I am going to paint tomorrow.

Day 5

Long day!  I was hoping to paint more tonight but I think I have painted enough for one day.  This week I want to continue to practice my sponging and work more on my lines.  I also want to start working on my book of designs I offer.   Good night :)

Day 4

I am super exhausted tonight but still practiced my lines, and tear drops.  Tomorrow I work most of the day and I will get to painting at both of my shows.  Wish me luck.

Day 3, Sponging and lines

Today I finished the Mark Reid class I started yesterday.  Then I  worked on the exercises in his tutorial.  The sponging went better than I thought it would but I still need lots of practice.  I also realized that one of the problems I have with my line work is that my brush is drying out too fast so, I will be working on loading my brush properly.  Tomorrow I will be face painting at my parties but I don’t think I am going to count that as my day 4.  This weekend I plan to continue working on my sponging and lines :)

Day 2, Back to the basics

Today I watched about 30 minutes of a Mark Reid class on "Mastering Your Lines".  I am looking forward to meeting Mark this year at Kapital Kidvention. I used my leg as my practice broad tonight as I worked on thick to thin lines, tear drops, swirls, etc. Tomorrow I will work on doing these lines a little faster and I’ll work on sponging.  I hate sponge painting!

Day 1

Today I watched some face painting classes on FABATV www.fabatv.com  One artist I enjoyed watching, Margi Kanter, does this cute nose art.  So today I painted one of her designs on my little girl.  I really need to work on the basics so tomorrow I am going to take about 20 steps back and work on my brush strokes.