Showing posts with label pastel and acrylic on watercolor paper. Show all posts
Showing posts with label pastel and acrylic on watercolor paper. Show all posts

Saturday, October 24, 2009

Water's edge

Pastel over acrylic on watercolor paper again (see my recent Reflections series).

I ruin a lot of these trying to get a successful one (actually, that could be said of a lot of different things in life...), but it's a great way to use up pieces of old acrylic abstract paintings, and when it works, it really works.




Domino effect. People, we have killer cuteness going on in this house.





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Monday, October 5, 2009

Reflections 3

Here's the third Reflections from the other night. I will definitely be doing more experimenting like this!



Oh, how Miss Lemon adores kittens...!





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Sunday, October 4, 2009

Reflections 2 / A new face

Here's the second Reflections.


And here's the new kitty face in our house. A little, skinny, scrawny, pathetic all-white boy who I think is deaf, and has some eye problems to boot. The Humane Society vet was not sure what was going on with his eyes, though they gave me some drops for them (and they weren't aware of his apparent deafness). We adopted him yesterday. I will be bringing him to my regular vet as soon as I can, to get his eyes checked out more thoroughly.

He doesn't have a name yet, though it occurred to me to possibly name him Keller (after Helen). He had an identical twin brother in the Humane Society with him, and yes, it was tempting...! I wonder if he is part Siamese--he is quite eccentric, bold, loud, and extremely long and thin. He doesn't seem to want to play much, which seems odd to me, as he is only 3 or 4 months old. Rather, he just seems to want to be tucked inside one's shirt at the neck, or cuddle up to everyone he meets, us, the dogs, anyone or anything that is warm will do! His fur seems to be very thin too, so perhaps he really is feeling cold much of the time. He also likes to follow people around, dog-like, screaming for them to pick him up; and he likes to perch on people's shoulders. He likes to try to nurse on Miss Lemon, and as is usual with her, she doesn't mind a bit, and is grooming him and treating him like her own. (She never had kittens, but has "fostered" every kitten we've ever had.) Our new little guy is really an odd one but very endearing so far.

The Husband holding little no-name.



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Saturday, October 3, 2009

Reflections


This was an interesting new experiment and fun to do, and I love how it turned out. I took an old piece of abstract acrylic painting on watercolor paper, and added pastel over it, including some iridescent pastels, while thinking of pond reflections. I did three of these last night in related but slightly different palettes, so I'll be posting the next two soon.



Small (couch) potato.





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