A few things
I'm feeling a multitude of things right now - much of it angst and sorrow...but I am focusing on my art at the moment, putting what I feel into a more positive outlook and creating something hopefully beautiful with it. But...we'll see.
For starters, I have a commission of a lovely little Daschund to work on for Malene; lovely lady on DA. I started out with a sketch yesterday and I'm still waiting to see whether or not she's happy with what I've sketched down. I am...quite happy with it. The layout is alright, but I know the sketch will look a hell of a lot better once I start working colour into it. Tone and colour add depth to something flat and help fill in the gaps that look out of proportion in a sketch...at least that's what happens with me...
Seeing as she still needs to comment, I won't put any updates or processes of it here because I'd rather let her be the one to see it first.
On another note, I finally started a painting for myself. 12x9" box canvas oil painting.
Started out with just some moody colours and worked out so many different compositions and poses until I finally settled for this, the ref thanks to this - http://chrysocyonfrax.deviantart.com/art/Gray-Wolf-166-126602166 - stock photo (really good wolf stock).
But today when I went back to it I wasn't sure. After sitting for 2 hours listening to a lecturer rant on and on about artists from the early 1900's I started thinking about Oskar Kokoschka's painting The Tempest - http://www.usc.edu/schools/annenberg/asc/projects/comm544/library/images/695.html - and wanted to be a little bit more expressive in the paint's movement etc.
So far I have gotten to this stage -
The colours are not as vivid and bright as this...it just didn't want to be editted tastefully and without a sheen. So sorry for the complete contrast to the preveious picture.
It still has a long way to go...but it's actually soothing me a little. Putting everyone into this will hopefully pay off, but if it doesn't then oh well. This is for me, my soul is going into it...something that I can look at and feel...satisfied with. That is the plan at least. Let's see how that goes.
Just felt I should update again - this is only lasting my till monday - afterwards I will have a new project and won't have time to work on it.