Done colouring...

Finally, I'm done with colouring...  Still cannot decide what colour background to put on, so I'd just leave it white... Maybe I can make it into a note card or post card something later =) It's available at ETSY. http://www.etsy.com/listing/86585687/original-watercolor-fantasy-painting

Fairy with Ocarina ready to colour

Just made the scatch of the new painting - Fairy with Ocarina...
Ready to colour... still desiding on what colour to paint on...
I was trying to either draw it with the flute but end up with the ocarina...
it's a nice little instrument that is very fairy tale looking =)

 

Back to Pastel / Charcoal drawing

I was too busy at my day work recently and almost forgot how to draw...
Really need to pick up my art stuffs and motivate my art FU...
Beside my desk, I have piles of pastel papers that I got from my art class couple months ago... Still sitting there, collecting dust. I used to paint or draw almost every other day and list on ebay. But since my full time job gets in the way, the art creating got delayed and delayed... But the creative ideas are still blooming in my head but no time to squeeze them out on papers and canvas... quite headachey...

Yesterday afternoon, I finally took out my brown pastel papers, and drew my favorite LOTR characters...
Sam and Frodo... need more improvement on shading... lol
To see the actual ETSY Listing: Visit http://www.etsy.com/shop/patriciastudio

New web look for Patricia Studio, New service for Custom Logo Design

Recently I've tried to "revovate" my website; and change the Zen-carts store back to just the plain HTML... For the rest of the products, I'll just post them on ETSY and Zazzle for now. Since both of them are pretty good, plus Cost effecient... for a person like me that most of the time is working and taking care of family, posting new artwork or craft products may not be as fast as before when I still host my ebay store because it really take time to manage on-line with constant updates with new items to keep it alive. However, my love for painting and craft is still the same, and when I'm ready to retire in 20 years, I'll be the road show artist for sure!!!! LOL
*for now, I still need my steady pay cheque to pay my mortgage...*

In my new site, I have the new service for Custom Logo and stationary package available!
Pricing is under this link:
http://www.patriciastudio.com/PS/graphics.htm
If interested, welcome to email me at patriciastudio168@gmail.com
Thanks!
Patty

Fantasy/Portrait Painting Practice

I found it's really hard to find time painting with a full time job and young kids surrounded...
But still managed to paint one after all the life struggle with time management...
Sometimes the inspirations arrives but didn't catch it in time; when you have time to paint, it disappeared...
This painting is to try out the combined techniques with my old fantasy style and the portrait painting...
The result is interesting. I wish to see more Gothic look in my paintings next time... LOL

My new painting: Holding a Bird, 22"x 28" acrylic painting on stretched canvas

 

More dogs are out///

Trying new techniques for color pencil drawing...
More puppies are out!
My cute Siberian Husky =)



And the orange Shiba Inu puppy... Very cute and friendly ~~~

Pencil sketch and final drawing...

I found the stroking is fun to play with using the color pencils; but my right arm got so sore afterwards... lol
But the texture looks interesting... I like it~~~



Another Dream... Kicking soccer ball?

Woke up with anther dream that I remembered...
*usually after few minutes from waking up, I tend not to remember what happened in the dream*

I dreamed of kicking soccer ball in a big outdoor soccer field. The ball I kicked wend side way towards the right pole; but I didn't remember if I scored or not...
And there was a part that my mom asked my uncle to watch us? (me and my kids or my younger brother... maybe it was the childhood memory dream. I don't quite remember what was going on...)
I remembered that my uncle asked... " why don't you guys answer the phone? " lol
In real life, we don't answer the phone if the call display shows private or unknown number... We just let it go to voice mail...

But the soccer kicking part in the dream was very vivid...

*Night Dream* Cutting someone's hair?!

Last night I have a weird dream about cutting someone else' hair...
The hair was blond, I was holding the hair in front of me with one hand and started to cut it with the other hand. *must be someone else' hair; otherwise, I won't be able to hold it like that...*
And then later on, I saw a big square shape of blanket and started to cut the corners with scissors... /so weired/
In another part of the dream , I saw a section of tree branches, with no leaves...

Don't know what these mean in the dream...

But I finally got my haircut this afternoon... Need a change...

Who let the dogs out?!

It was not because of the dogs...
The story began with a hamster...
My Boy JR got a hamster for his birthday from us, and my co-worker Beata she gave us the hamster cage and all the wood chips plus tubes/wheels all kinds of hammy accessories from her son... They used to have hamster when her kids were little, but not anymore; now they have a puppy...
So I decided to do a dog portrait for her as a gift by starting to do some puppy drawings...
I'd planned to make it into a bit bigger acrylic painting, but need to see how it looks like in color pencil sketches...
She got a cute Boston Terrier puppy =)

And then for some reason, I start to drew other puppies...
Here is a little Beagle mix...

Maybe I'll drew a whole bunch of puppies...

Little Red Riding Hood...

I really want to watch the movie red riding hood... *Just watched "Rango" with my kids for March Break..*
This painting was done first week of march and then the next few days the trailer of the movie was on...
What a coincident~ Anyway, this painting was not that dark as the movie...
A scene of Red riding hood walking in the winter snow with basket of goodies while Mr. Wolf was snooping on the side...

done by watercolor and color pencil (outlines) on watercolor paper

Finally a new physio found...

Our previous beloved physiotherapist  for my boy J.R has to go on a medical leave and we'd been waiting and waiting for the Children Treatment Network to find us another children physio specialist to work on J.R's feet. Finally we got one that hopefully will fit into J.R's schedule and will work out for him... Last week he was going to get a Botox shot on his leg again (we thought) but instead the doctor said to wait till spring time because he has to do another serial casting to stretch his leg/foot muscle right after he get the needle shot. If we do it now in the winter, he won't be able to wear his boots and the cast might get wet because of the snow... Not a good idea since he has some eczema problem with the skin. If the cast gets wet, the skin will get soft and itchy... *sign* Anyway, we'll visit out new physio lady tomorrow~ Wish  J.R luck! Cheers!