New Wip Thread

Really beautiful, Marlene. Looking forward to the finish. Your clients will love it!


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Thanks, Dan! This is only the third I've done of this type and never combined two names before.

I can't be the only one with works in progress!!
Day 2:

Marlene,
I always have a few drawings i shuffle around to complete, here is one I need to finish.
It is a graphite drawing of a 67 Shelby Mustang GT500, Eleanor..
I wish I started it on larger paper as the details are killing me as this car is about the size of a pencil...

Get on it, George and thanks for sharing!!

I just started a new screenplay, but I don't guess that counts.

I HATE to write but this one is keeping me awake at nights with new ideas.

All based on a recent medical discovery... A way to revive youthfulness... Reverse the aging process. For real!

Beautiful work Marlene.

I'm looking forward to what you'll do with this work.

Here is mine. I started it the other night and it just happened, so whether I'll detail it out or not is something to contemplate.

Beautiful, Marlene!
Happy Thanksgiving :)!

Marlene,

I love the imagery for this young man as he is about to venture full sail through his exploration of Life


And now, What I'm doing

Early preparations for eventual works

Ready to be sprayed,(since it is warm enough to work outside)

1, Tiny vulture shells to be painted black



2, Tiny bat heads to be sprayed with a toxic "Woody Gloss Spray (Michaels)

CHuck, I stay up all night for no good reason, so you definitely have one up on me!

Thank you Xueling, Roger and Lisa....
Lisa, if you keep painting, keep posting!

Roger, the sea is very significant to this young man...he is a competitive swimmer. The Torah portion is the blessing that Jacob gives his grandsons...that they should proliferate like fish.
This painting was commissioned by his grandmother as her blessing to her grandson.



OOh, love seeing your process, Roger!! A veritable assembly line of creatures!

Day 3, almost done:

Marlene it is looking good!

Marlene, that is a very cool painting and for a very special occasion. I'm sure the grandma and the grandson will be extremely happy with it.
George that drawing sounds mighty small indeed but it looks amazing, love the detail in it. I haven't done a pencil drawing in a very long time.
Lisa, I love the freedom of your painting style. My mind is to much of a perfectionist to let it loose...
Roger, such intricate work!! It will be interesting to see what becomes of those many Vultures & Bats?

As for me, I've stepped up into a bigger world doing my first "full sheet" watercolor painting. It is of the Olympic Mountains at the top of Hurricane Ridge in the Olympic National Park. This park is just 35min from my home in my own "backyard" as we call it. We go up for picnics during the summer and this painting is from one of my photos I took when my growing family went for an evening of fun. I am replacing my 80ish parents into the picture as this was one of their favorite places to visit and have picnics and watch the sunset. They are both still with me but can no longer go up to that elevation due to health issues.

Between my job and life it is slow going trying to get this one done but hopefully it will be within the next couple of weeks.

Thank you, George...the final is coming up soon!
Julie....wow!! I envy water colorists...such an unforgiving medium AND your WIP looks amazing! I don't have the patience, so I'll have to live vicariously through you!! Keep us posted...I'll bump this thread to keep it on the first page for others to post!

Marlene, Morrdecai Vayachi... what a splendid gift for someone to have in remembrance of such a special day in one's life... Beautiful!!!


i've nothing cooking right now... just concepts... i'll post as soon as i have something material.

Finally finished

Thank you, Ed....client picked it up and mailed it out with a big smile on her face.

George, looks great! Thanks for finishing it and posting!

Marlene,
Love your finished work on Morrdecai Vayachi.

Thank you!

George, Very well done! I like it a lot, hopefully you will get many sales from it!
Marlene, It looks wonderful, there's nothing better than that smile from the customer when they see it! Love it!

Amongst the Christmas Chaos I progressed a little further in my painting but now know it won't be finished until mid January instead of my hopes for December. Life always seems to create it's own delays in my dreams sometimes! Here it is...

Marlene, i promised if i had anything that became a WIP i would post it here...
Well i have a series of fictional portraits and stories kind of rambling around in my thoughts that i might try...
also I thought would try the work in a style that I normally don't work in... a sort of realism I guess, just to see what happens.

These are the first preliminary sketches of Simone who owns a bar in a Mediterranean port city.
The bar was named after and established by her intrepid exiled French grandmother of the same name
and whose elegant but fading portrait still hangs behind the bar.

I need to young Simone up a bit and make her more exciting looking... more exotic, inviting and sparkly... lol

Julie,
I apologize....I lost this thread when I was out of town but I hope to see that picnic table soon! Looks great so far!

Ed, she needs some piercings

This work in progress is of my ancestral town, Mezritch (Miedzyrzec, Podlaski), scripted in Yiddish. It is becoming yet another way to memorialize my ancestors and inspire my own genealogical journey. From the town's name, both tears and roots descend, explaining the deep connection to my family place of origin as well as my emotions, both of sadness and joy as I learn more about these people... From above, will sprout the family tree. Stay tuned for the finished art!

I haven't painted in over 6 months!? :(

Edited...I see by the bee mural I put up that I did that in September. Nothing for ages before and nothing since.

I need to work! I've an empty canvas and I've an image in mind. Just no time.

Very beautiful, Marlene.

Thx, Lisa, show me what you've got!
Abbie, START!!
Here's today's...almost done!


and done:

Marlene, I bet this discussion and others like them would get more participation if we could share images directly to the our posts without having to upload them to our portfolio. I know I would participate.

David, use an image hosting site

https://secure.photobucket.com/login

It will give you the code also

(Only upload images up to 600pixels)

Thx, Abbie for answering DavidK.
David, you can also put them in a private portfolio here on faa....
we had an old WIP thread that was very lively...not sure what happened :(

Have reactivated so people have someone to add their wip's

"David, use an image hosting site"

Nope, they are unreliable and pain to use. Really? This is a site that hosts millions of images yet I can't upload a small image directly to the forum. I'll keep saying it, this forum design is so antiquated it's ridiculous.

I have half a dozen wip in graphite, charcoal and colored pencil. I need to finish a few and daylight savings will hopefully give me more time to draw.
Here is a graphite drawing of a whitetail doe that I photographed this fall.