my facebook friends (thanks, kelly!!) encouraged me to start painting jack white last night. so i looked through a lot of pictures on google until this one jumped out at me.
it's not completed. i only worked on it for 3 hours so far. i need to do something with his hair, i think. and the more i look at his left eye, the more it looks squinty to me. i may have to fiddle with that for a while. and his left cheek makes him look pudgy or maybe he has a toothache (oh, no!!), so i have to fix that. lots of work, still, in other words.
it's early in the morning here, so please ignore the yellow on the canvas from my desk lamp.
i didn't film me painting this one cuz i didn't feel like standing up to paint. i can't figure out how to set the camera up so i can sit down yet. my studio isn't big enough..or i should say, my studio is so full of junk there's no space for the tripod. um, yeah. i have so many projects going on at once..it's mad around here!!
and last night i got the notion to paint johnny cash next..i said it out loud, even. and, once it's said, i can't back down from it..so my household can expect lots of johnny cash music being played over the next couple days..probably one or two on repeat cuz that's how i roll. lol
oh, boy. it never ends, does it? i figure i'm on this celebrity kick because of the story i wrote the other day. i'm wondering how long it will last before i'm bored, tho. eh, probably for a while, actually cuz since when do i have a problem staring at beautiful people for hours and hours and hours? nevah! heh!
i fell into a burning ring of fiiire. i went down down down and the flames went higher. and i burned burned burned. the ring of fiiiire. the ring of fiire.
If you've watched my YouTube videos, you probably can guess that I'm greatly inspired by the music of Josh Woodward. He is absolutely fantastic, and ever since I found him on Jamendo, I have listened to him every day. He has a song called Mona Lisa on his Here Today album. So, I glued my headphones on my head, put the song on repeat, went into the zone, and painted what I'm calling Modern Lisa.
I wrapped both buildings around the sides of the canvas.
I worked on Modern Lisa all day yesterday. So, it has improved since this video was made. She got a nose job (it was too crooked), and more color was added back into her face. She was a little too ghostly.
I'll be listing it for sale very soon in my Etsy shop. I'll update here with new photos, hopefully within a couple hours.
Oh, and if you want to see what I paint next, be sure to subscribe to my YouTube channel. I think I've finally figured this video thing out, so there will more paintings soon.
i remember when i was little i told my momma that i wanted to be a movie star. i think that's what we called celebrities in those days. she was peeling potatoes, if i remember right. and her hand never stopped moving. she didn't look at me, either. there might have been a little pause, and then she said something like, "no, you don't want to do that. all those people drink and do drugs."
so i became an artist instead.
oh boy. it's a good thng i didn't run that one by momma first, huh?
