Time lapse portrait

Infinite universe

Flowers in colored pencil on colored paper

Three finished

Well, I have gotten an enormous amount of energy last week (must be due to the sunny weather) and I finished my last three projects. I am especially happy with the baby portrait of Daen which I made for Marion. I consider it my best piece uptill now. I feel with each portrait I am doing I am getting better. So this is the time to order a comission portrait, especially with all these positive vibes I am getting now (definitely the weather:) I got a comission request from a guy who came to repair my kitchen and saw the portrait of Daen with which I was busy on that time. He thought it was a good idea for mothersday :) I am so thrilled. I will post updates when I start it (I still need to get a picture though)

Well, here are the three children which I made in sepia effect. The likeness is definitely there. It is size 17x17cm.

















Then the bird... I am not totaly satisfied with it. I feel though it is the best I can do for now. I think I need alot more experience in our feathery friends before comitting myself to these kinds of projects. Sabrina (the woman for who I made this one) on the other hand liked it very much, so if I can make somebody happy, I should be happy with it also I guess :) The size is 10x18cm












Then the last one, like I said my best piece uptill now is baby Daen. Could be also due to the fact that I am getting alot of requests for baby portraits lately, so I am really getting the hang of it. The size of the portrait is 18x18cm



I also started a new portrait of a boy, but it is still in a preliminary state (not good enough to post an update) I actually promised him a little while ago to make one for him. Its just because he looked like a difficult subject (no offense) that I have been waiting for so long. I will post an update or I might post when it is really finished.

defragmenting

I have been busy with so many things at a time I actually dont get anything finished. My fathers birthday was yesterday and the painting didnt get finished. So I bought a present instead. Now probably it will lay there for next year or maybe hopefully for fathersday. I sure could use some more discipline. Does anybody have some advise on how to train this.
For the moment I started at about five drawings and I only finished one which I dont really like. The first is a really tiny portrait of a cat which would take me little less then an hour to complete. Here is the wip (work in progress).

The next one is a small portrait of me and my son, which still needs alot of color layers. I actually only have the sketch for the moment. It was a picture I really liked and I have been wanting to draw it for a long time.

I am always in admiration for people who know how to draw these beautiful fantasy women. It is one of my aims to be ablte to do this also and this just from my imagination. Since I dont have yet a good understanding of the proportions of the human body, I drew this one from a picture, but it is also still waiting to be finished.

I also have something not living. My first try at something like a landscape in colored pencil. For the moment I am rather happy with, but it is still not finished. I am doing this one for the March colored pencil challenge on www.wetcanvas.com

Then the last one, which did get finished but actually isnt really good. Maybe I should do a few more layers on it to give it a more finished look. On the other hand I have so many other things to finish and so many more to start :) This one is a selfportrait. I wanted to try a new method. So I drew the sketch with a light gray, then added darker parts with a darker grey and then added color. The colors could have been a litlle more nuanced, but like I said my biggest flaw ever is I like to start new things so sometimes things have to go fast.

Well, alot to look at and for me alot to finish. So I think I might as well start now :) Hopefully in my next post I will have at least one update from one of these drawings ;)

If you check on my website, you can see that now and then I do finish something. So, I am not yet completely hopeless. If I would get some commissioning work, I am sure I would be much more disciplined about it. Now all of the things I make are for fun and pleasure, so there isnt any haste involved.

Work in progress

For the moment I am really trying to figure out how I can live with my art. It seems I still have a long way to go, but it is something I really want. I sometimes wish I could just draw and everything else would follow. I guess it doesnt work that way. Probably I should go out and find customers, but pushing myself to other people is something I hate to do.
Luckily I have a husband who really believes in me, maybe he is a litlle overestimating my artistic capacities. On the other hand it is a good compensation of me underestimating myself.
For the moment I am busy making a portrait in colored pencil for my father. His birthday is soon to come. I hope I make it in time. It is drawn from a photograph of him and my son. For the first time I tried a full developed background. I am really happy with the back ground I have already drawn. Now lets hope the faces will be ok also (I do have more experience with it, so it should be ok)
Here is a picture of my progress so far. The picture is not so clear, but when it is finished I wil definitely post a better one.

Latest work

For the moment I am busy making a portrait in colored pencil of an actress. I got this idea from a chat friend, who told me my portraits on my portraiture site look really good, but he didnt know any of the people so he couldnt really tell if there was any resemblance. So I decided as a marketing stunt to paint a famous person. The portrait is not yet finished, but I cropped it so it looks sort of finished. Anybody can guess who it is? I hope you can.