Gavin and Lucah Finished

I have finished these two paintings and will be matting and framing them this week.  I'm pleased overall and think I learned a few things along the way.  I have to thank my fellow blogger, Bob Witte, for critiquing and helping me to adjust certain areas.  Always nice to have another set of eyes to see something.

Gavin and Lucah progress

Gavin above, Lucah below

I have held my breath this morning and started laying in color for hair.  Geez, I hate doing hair!  I never feel very comfortable with painting hair and I'm always afraid that I will ruin what otherwise might have turned into a good painting.  Anyway, not finished as you can see.  Also not sure what I will do on the background of each.  Decisions, decisions!

Lucah

A portrait of our grandson, Lucah, when he was much younger.  It is still in progress.  I am playing around with the background and have more to do to hair.  Hair always seems to be difficult for me.  Thanks for reading!

Gift for Freddie

The painting that I posted on July 9 of Chandler became a gift for my son for his 43rd birthday, which is today.  43!!!  How did that happen?  Aren't I only 43 or so?

I have found time to paint this past week and will be posting some of that maybe tomorrow.  I worked on the portrait of Ted a bit more and made alot of progress on a painting of our grandson, Lucah.  These grandchildren that you see paintings of are now 14, 13 and 11 (Chandler, Gavin and Lucah respectively). I just love some of these little snapshots of when they were younger.

I'm also planning to do a painting of my husband Jim, that includes our first yorkie, Zoe.  Before I tackle the painting, I have been doing small practice paintings of Zoe but not with much luck.  I am having trouble doing a dog.  I can do them in pencil but watercolor is another story.  Geez!!!