Ten! Ten plants left to paint!
Two pictures are drying on my desk right now, waiting for further watercolor work. But since there's been precious little updates on the Surreal Botany project on my blog, consider this, well, me announcing that we're THIS close to getting the art done for the book! That's 10 left out of 48. What actually surprises even myself is that I do have 38 plant illustrations done already. The past few weeks actually gave me some days where I was able to complete 3 or 4 of them in a day, so 9 to complete before this Friday (when we're leaving for Kong Kong) is looking doable, although I stupidly left the "hard" ones for the last... you know, the ones with the architectural and historical details. (THOSE writers should know who they are...)
Another MAAD Market went by this weekend with yours truly in attendance on Saturday, feverishly splashing up watercolor portraits alongside other artists from OIC. Things started slow, but we got swamped, I think, from 3:30pm onwards, and it was non-stop after that, and it was pairs of people nearly the whole day through. That means actually drawing and completing 2 people in 15 minutes flat. That doubles the work compared to a single portrait, people! Be kinder to the artists, and purchase more pieces when you do that -- credit cards are accepted... all to make it easier to support starving artists, y'know? :)
And alas, I brought a lot of pieces home (as opposed to getting them sold) this time. It ain't a big deal, but even if I say so myself, most of my results were pretty good looking and it sucks only slightly that I just have to bring them home to put them in my "If I ever want to be a courtroom artist one day" portfolio. Haha!
Two plant paintings finished while typing this up. Which means only 8 plants left to go!
Another MAAD Market went by this weekend with yours truly in attendance on Saturday, feverishly splashing up watercolor portraits alongside other artists from OIC. Things started slow, but we got swamped, I think, from 3:30pm onwards, and it was non-stop after that, and it was pairs of people nearly the whole day through. That means actually drawing and completing 2 people in 15 minutes flat. That doubles the work compared to a single portrait, people! Be kinder to the artists, and purchase more pieces when you do that -- credit cards are accepted... all to make it easier to support starving artists, y'know? :)
And alas, I brought a lot of pieces home (as opposed to getting them sold) this time. It ain't a big deal, but even if I say so myself, most of my results were pretty good looking and it sucks only slightly that I just have to bring them home to put them in my "If I ever want to be a courtroom artist one day" portfolio. Haha!
Two plant paintings finished while typing this up. Which means only 8 plants left to go!