I am leaving today for London (for 2 days) for a job interview, so won't be getting any art done for a week or so.

I'll blog you when I get back

Pete

Have you noticed the dates all screwed up on my blog entries..  I think I have found a bug in the blog system.. If I edit an entry, it adds a day to the entry date... weird.

Anyway.. 2 down... I have officially finished the sneakers, and the bowl.. still working on the strawberries (haven't done anything since last time... damn that crimson takes a long time to dry), and the cointreau and cigars.

first the sneakers.  I had to finish off some details.. eyelets, laces, paint drips, stitching etc..  On here, as photos it may look as if I haven't done much at all.  You'll just have to see it in the flesh.

and the bowl... well its just a bowl, what else can I say

til next time

Pete

can you believe its October already........ time marches on

OK.. an update.  I didn't do all that much over the last couple of days, hours wise, but you can see the difference in the progress.  Its all base work though (except for the sneakers), where I lay down the first layers of paint.  I also started a new painting with strawberries and an Alizirin Crimson paint tube... see later.

Sneakers

I decided I would make the sneakers a little more interesting, so I painted a tear in the canvas and leaked paint out... dripping it on the sneakers, and pooling on the floor.  I couldn't finish because the paint was a still wet and a little buttery.. it needs to dry a bit before I can do any more.

bowl

The bowl is coming along... not sure at this stage whether it shoul be blue or not.. I might have to cogitate on that one a little

Cointreau & cigars

Started tha main block in and worked on the background a little... I will do some more today

strawberries

This is a new painting I will be working on.. 900x600 so fairly large, and will probably take some time to finish.  So far I have only blocked in the main colours...

take care uintil next update

Pete

WOTE 1/10/08

With the girls gone I am getting plenty of time to paint, although I was a bit slack yesterday and only put in a few hours.

Where am I up to you might ask??? or might not

I started two new works yesterday.... they are

1.  a bowl... I know, I know I said I wouldn't do bowls and fruit and stuff, but guess what, I have changed my mind.  Here is the orginal rough-in

I am going to add some interest in the background on this one.  The bowl on its own just won't cut it, even with the minimalist look I have been using on my paintings lately.

I also started a work based on a box of cigars and a bottle of cointeau I have in the grog cupboard.  I set up and took a reference photo to work off.

funny thing though.. I went through the setup, cigars, matches, bottle etc. and took heaps of reference photos under different lighting conditions.  Then when I started to draw on the canvas I noticed the matches were labeled "Dickheads".  All along I thought they were "Redheads"... LOL.  I drew it as it was.  I might leave it and call this painting "Dickheads and friends" ... what do you think?

I worked on the sneakers yesterday as well.  I wanted to add a little mystery to the painting, so I painted a tear in the canvas..  I plan to have paint dripping out of the tear onto the shoes and ending in a paint puddle on the floor... we'll see how it turns out.  If it doesn't work I can always paint over it

The shoes are finished except for some scuffing to make them look a little worn.  I can't do that (or the paint drips) until the rest of it is dry, in a day or so

Until next time

Pete