Painting Progress!

Well, yesterday was great! We had a really good time with David and Denay and Alyssa and Gwen at lunch. David and I got each other stirred up about our different projects. (I need to remember to send him some of the links that have inspired me lately.)

After a quick stop at the store we were home and I was ready to paint while Pat finished up the spider project for the Guild's school day. (She gave Alyssa the first one she made. Sweet Alyssa loved it.) We put a DVD of Ground Forces on for background for both of us. If you haven't seen it, I highly reccomend it. It is a fun British show with some great garden designs and wonderful eye-candy . . .

I actually made progress on my Ral Partha AElvish Halbreds!!! It was Fun, and really has me excited! I even managed to take some before shots, I'll have to post the after later ~ once I have a chance to take them.

The hair was taking so long, when I was painting last Sunday, that I decided I needed to have some fun painting time where I could actually make progress. And I did! All of the blue is done now. Both the small amount that shows under the bottom of the mail and all of the shields.

The under tunic is two-toned wet-on-wet painting. (One side of the brush is loaded with the main color the other side is loaded with a lighter shade.) It worked well and was fairly fast. The shields were very fast to paint, and are in one color tone. I got a good three hours of painting time in. That probably sounds like a long time compared to some of the fast painters. But Iw as taking my time, enjoying the process, and taking lots of time watching Charlie jiggle and giggle . . . (If you've ever seen Ground Forces you know exactly what I mean!)

Pat and I had a nice afternoon together. And now I'm stirred up again and can't wait to get more time in painting!