What are you working on?

[Artyczar]

Thanks for the words of encouragement. I like how creative you got with that cardboard drizzle. Really cool!

I am having some fun with it. But like Kay said, it is really hard not to take some things personally. I'm really trying not to.

 

[laf.art]

I really love the whole idea here, plus the end results are so fresh.Great stuff

 

[drizzlewither]

Two down for Ink Drawing Month. This is looking promising! I'm not doing the official Inktober prompts, I'm going to artprompts.org generating a bunch of them and picking faves.

I did my lollipop study yesterday (it was delicious). Was hoping to do some outside stuff today but wouldn't ya know it it's raining.

 

[PSA3475]

Thanks Arty! Lots of it is on my blog https://kaysmithbrushworks.blogspot.com and here is a collage
done on one of the pages using junk.

I’m liking your work kreativek. Love collage and turning junk into art!

 

[Jo Castillo]

This set will be the Sweets Set and my first that I did today is a study of polo mints. Making sure everytime now to do a preliminary sketch with watercolor so I go into my work with more of a plan. There is a chocolate lolipop waiting in the kitchen for the next one, and the best part is when I've done the painting I will get to eat the chocolate. Now that's motivation

Yep, I love it when you can eat the models! I like the Bets Park set. Clever you.

 

[Artyczar]

So much for all my worries about the misprints in the open studios event catalogs. The oddest thing on earth happened yesterday--out of the blue. I got an email from a couple that were having lunch at a fancy restaurant nearby. They saw my listing in the catalog and went to my website on their phone. They inquired about a painting that is in the catalog (which I didn't have anymore), but I wrote them back right away and told them perhaps I could interest them in something else and gave them my phone number.

They called about a minute later and said they were outside in front of my house! I was like, Whaaa? Give me a minute. (I was in my pajamas!) I am still not set up--the event starts next week. They were a bit pushy, but they wound up to be very nice people. I let them in to look around and they bought one of my most expensive pieces. Lickety-split. It was surreal. And weird. And great.

 

[drizzlewither]

So much for all my worries about the misprints in the open studios event catalogs...

Well that's a result! How fantastic! Well done you on the big sale


Got my third ink illustration done this morning so I'm 3 for 3 so far on Ink Drawing Month. In the process discovered that I'd been putting the nibs in the dip pens wrong (if you have to wonder how one puts a nib in a dip pen wrong... I'm special that way). I've had these things for years and never put them to much use. It may get easier now that I have a slightly better idea of what I'm doing.

 

[Terri]

Fantastic turn of events! So happy for you. Nothing like an easy sale to set a whole new tone.

Congrats. Yayyy!!!

 

[Artyczar]

Thank you for the congrats. I appreciate it. Still doesn't seem real. Can't wait to see your new illustration drizzle.

Here is the painting I sold:

Oil on canvas, 34 x 34 inches: Girl in a Boat:

 

[Terri]

Dang, I love your stuff. Wow.

 

[Artyczar]

Thank you Terri. You make my head explode.

 

[drizzlewither]

34x34 inches... (mumbling... holds arms out in random directions... looks confused... creeps off to find tape measure...) WHOA that's big! Must have taken some time

I'm 4 for 4 on ink drawing month so far. Dip pen + diluted ink wash with brushes. They're tiny illustrations about 5 1/2 by 4in as I want them to fit in the little photo album thing I have. Bonus of doing tiny drawings is I can fit 2 on each sheet of bristol board paper. Thrifty!

Most of what I've done in traditional media lately has been representational/studies so it's a chance to cut loose with some imagination.

 

[Artyczar]

See, I don't think it's all that big. Isn't that funny? Although, I do prefer smaller stuff.

4 for 4 is good for the month. You definitely worked more days than I have this month!

 

[laf.art]

I rememberber this paintingvery cool and what a great result with your sale.
drizzlewither - very productive
I spent around 6 hours on an ink drawing yesterday, and was really happy to finish the piece

 

[Artyczar]

Thank you laf! Now I'm back to getting this garage set up. Open studio starts Saturday. Still have to make the signs.

 

[laf.art]

I should think the sale has given you a boost to finish it, good luck Sat

 

[drizzlewither]

Completed a third sweets study today - a Snickers bar. Acrylic on cardboard scrap. I want to do one more then I can do the tie-with-twine hanging thing. Which means buying candy (it's research!!). I think something colorful would be nice to finish off my set... gummies or jellybeans or similar.

And still doing Inktober!

 

[ZenDruid]

Being a cash-strapped artist I appreciate that you can put acrylic on literally anything! I steal cardboard out of the apartment bins like an inspired raccoon, paint on them tie them together with twine then hang them up as rustic dangly decoration things.

I love this, I like your style I'm a big fan of found materials and repurposing stuff in nonconforming ways

 

[Hermes2020]

I love this, I like your style I'm a big fan of found materials and repurposing stuff in nonconforming ways

 

[KreativeK]

Drizzleweather, wow, I love these works on cardboard and have done three already using gouache and acrylic. Too fun! If you have a chance look up artist Esther Loenhout on FB as she is a master of painting on cardboard.