out of the loop

Messing around with blog designs since I am laid up with an acute attack of sinus and bronchitis....sheeesh, on meds and oxygen therapy for 2 weeks. Guess it's better than being in the hospital. That means no art and I am really missing my studio....at least the weather has been disgusting so I don't feel the need to race out in the garden. Maybe by mid week I could go to the studio for a few hours.....we'll see.

The finish

Okay here is the finish and the client will pick it up next week. Always a nervous time for me. Will they like it?

Almost finished

I haven't been here for awhile as we were away at a grandson's HS graduation and then returned home to find our house had a lightning surge during some bad storms in the area. Many of our electronic and phone services were destroyed including my computer. Husband's computer was fine. Strange the way the lightning went trough the wires. Computer is now replaced and we are dealing with the other items and the insurance company.
Anyway, I did get a chance to work on this one day this week. I have only a little more to do.
I also took Stephen Early's 2 day figure work shop this week. Well worth it.

Another update

Here is the portrait so far. Did some background work. I will probably only have another day to work on this as we are heading south for a few days next week to attend one of our granddson's HS graduation. I definitely plan on finishing this the first part of June.

update

Here is an update. I had to stop working on the faces as they became too wet. I started mapping out the background and worked on some of the clothing.

Portrait commission in progress

This is my latest portrait commission. A grandfather and his granddaughter. I love that she is holding crayons in her hand. I hope to finish this by the first part of June with a trip to MD in the middle to see a grandson graduate from HS. This is about 16 x 20, oil pastel on uArt 800.

Storage

This is before and it got much worse.

These units cover one entire wall.

It has been awhile since I posted, but life has been busy. My studio mates and I decided to add some storage units to the storage room of our studio space. It was alost impossible to move in the room and forget  about trying to find anything. It kept getting worse and worse as we just dumed stuff in there to clear out the other areas. We now each have a section of large vertical space, small vertical space and a large shelf area.