Can't wait to be done!

I am out of Linseed oil at the moment, only a trickle leftover from last painting.  So NOW I will blog.

This has been one very LONG project for me.  It's not perfect, but I am capturing the essence of the place, just have trouble doing the stairs. Still, LOOK at it especially down here at the wall with the spooky images if you can see them.

It's better in person up close but there on this wall down here is something like a demonic skull and on the left it looks skull like too.  I am trying to paint the spiritual feeling of the place and though I was NOT planning out the skull and especially the eye over the cross it just came out that way and when I noticed it I just went with it.

My paintings often paint themselves. 

It's still an amazing piece of work, But I am ready for a new project.  This one still needs to be finished.

Proveglia will be next.  I would LOVE to know how Zack Bagins and the GAC would react to this.

When I do my art I really want a WOW from someone.  If I just get 'hmm nice painting'  or 'that's good' well obviously I haven't made it yet.

I still look at old and new art and see what WOWs me.  

I still have a little bit to go and I have done some work since the last photo was taken but I need fresh batteries as well as linseed oil.

I am hoping to sell this thing on my Etsy shop.

I think it would be really cool if  Zak Bagins bought it.  

A lovely dream.

See Me Paint

This is me on a rickety chair in the kitchen doing my best not to fall.  I had my daughter take this pic.

I'm hanging onto the fridge and you can see the trash just under the painting.  I don't have an easel and that sucks, but I don't have room for it anyway.

When I need a break I do the dishes or the laundry then get back to work. Only thing I'm missing is getting enough sleep.  I have to paint at night and I sacrifice sleep for my art.

If I am stuck just doing chores all day I get really DEPRESSED!  

Here is the EYE that was painted in when I was just working on that part.  It was not planned but when I stood back to check the texture I was making and saw the eye I was like WOW! How did that happen, I didn't even draw it on there, it was just charcoal smudge.

I have been working on a few more problems in the painting but it is coming along well enough.

In the meantime on my Pinterest page I have found some Ravens for some smaller painting ideas,

some skulls for a few Veritias painting ideas I have.

And I got some Pics of Waverly Hills Sanatorium which are posted on my Fav GAC Stuff board.

Yeah, that one will have a blue color scheme.  

And at church today I sketched out an idea for a horse painting, I"m thinking 30 by 30 of three horses running.  When I fledge out the sketch with color then I can scan it in and show what I"m doing for that.

I'm going to paint a little bit more before I hit the hay.

Loftus Hall almost done

This is really coming together.

Gotta say this painting is really getting eerie.

I don't know if you can see in the final pic here, in the niche where the crucifix is

The shadowy part above it, when I painted it and stopped it looked like an eye and part of a face

like a freakin' apperation

AND THIS WAS TOTALLY BY ACCIDENT

I didn't even draw a face on there, just smudged charcoal to shade it

but DAMN!  looks freakin edgy 

I LOVE IT!

I'll try to get a better close up later. but it looks freaky

I tend to do that in my paintings, an image just gets in there and when I see it I keep it 

Also got a bit of Proveglia sketched out.

This painting to be will be done alla prima in my sketchbook I was writing down notes on how to execute this work and I realized I really need to be working the paint wet on wet, especially for that demonic image. It will be painted in lightly, it is only darker here in the sketch just to get the image right, in the painting it will be more subtle but there.

It's like six am and I haven't slept at all tonight and I do have work at the library, only two hours but I am going to have to fill up on caffeine

Not coffee though, waaay too strong, Tea like Assam or Keemun would work.

I really hated putting my paints away but I needed to stop so I can keep my painting looking good.

I cannot wait for Proveglia, that is actually going to be a quicker job.

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Loftus Hall Up the stairs slowly

At one point I had to white out a section of the railing because I had too much there and after I did that it looked better.  Was told oil is a very forgiving medium, I do love it so much more than watercolor though I have done some great watercolors and it was watercolors that I worked with all my life till I got into oils.

I still have a bit to work on but it is coming along fine, I'm just slowly doing the stairs because I am fixing it as I go up those things.

I also started on a sketch of Proveglia, haven't ordered my gesso board yet though.

On the left you can just barely see the demonic entity that is featured as Zack Bagins tat.

It's not totally detailed just a pencil drawing so it's hard to see when it was scanned

but the shot of Proveglia you can see is green.  My daughter thought it looked like it was on fire, green fire.

It will be interesting, I'm trying to capture the spiritual energy of the place and that is the vision that got to me when I thought of the place.

When I think of Waverly Hills Sanatorium I think of blues, more cold, sad and isolated than anything else.

I don't know what size Waverly Hills will be, I haven't found a shot yet to use as reference, I just know what colors best represent the place.

I have other art ideas apart from Ghost Adventures, it's just these three places speak so strongly I just had to paint them, after these three I don't know if I will do more, it all depends on what strikes me.

I can't wait to see the new episodes, been following Ghost Adventures Crew on Twitter.  

I don't get cable, just internet so I have to wait to catch episodes on Youtube. I want to eventually buy all the DVD's of their shows but my funds only go so far.  I'm not all starving artist here, it's just a limit on how much I can get what I want and when.  I'm just thankful I am well stocked on artist supplies, up till now I hadn't painted for two years.  I just need a new board for the Proveglia project, and I am going back to my old canvases to fix them. Like this one here.

I painted this one a few years ago and now I really HATE that tree on the left!!

In order to fix it I have to white it out.

I will paint over it in Titanium white to start over again and fix it.

Of course I KNOW I will have to touch up everything else and that will take time as I go over and think what to change.  

Mmmm I think there is way too much yellow, the staff needs a bit of work. I will start with the tree first and then things will just flow from there I know it.

I have done great work on redos

I also have ideas for new paintings

Ideas just feed off one another here.

How I love it!

Loftus Hall, getting closer

I am getting closer to finishing, still have touchups to do.  I did a layer of zinc white over the magenta which gave the back wall there a rather interesting appearance.  Don't know if I'm going to keep it like that or add a glazed layer to darken it.  I have to finish up the steps then I'll be able to see if it is giving off the right feel I am looking for.  As I am wrapping up this painting I have about five others in mind for my next projects.  Of course there is Proveglia but there is in mind a couple of paintings of horses.  When I finally wrap up Loftus Hall I will blog about what is in my sketchbook.  I have a few sketchbooks, can never have too many.  I like to doodle during church service, keeps me awake.  Sitting still for too long makes me sleepy.

My husband told me at one point when I was working on this painting that I was a better artist than a mother, I didn't contest that but it did hurt.  I love my kids but I don't always 'get' them, I 'get' my art.  I always had the knack of making colors work together.  I haven't ordered my gesso board yet but I will, and I am going to start working on my sketch of Proveglia.

Loftus Hall Almost Done

The stairs are taking a bit to complete but the rest of the painting is about done.

I think it definitely has that spooky quality.  I also just read a bit on Aaron Goodwin's blog about Loftus Hall and now I'm feeling more spooked by it.  It's a good thing because that is the feeling I want to capture in this piece.  I am really proud of this work.  Love the challenge of this.  I had my three other kids staying the weekend at my mom's so all I had to take care of is the baby who will be 11 months on the 15th.

This is a gallery wrapped canvas and I'm painting the sides but I think this baby could use a good frame.

I have very good news, I got some Christmas money from some relatives and that means that with my upcoming paycheck from the Library I will be able to not only get some more Christmas presents for my kids but also get that gesso board I want for the Proveglia project I have in mind.  It's almost three am here and I have to try to get some sleep, I have a long day at the library.  Since I can leave my paints out I might be able to do a bit of work before I leave

that will put me in a chipper mood for the rest of the day.

It's tricky getting pics of my progress here since I am working at night when the kids are in bed and I can't get a good picture unless it's outside in natural light.

But you can see the progress here.  I have started working on the stairs again and you can't see it well but the posts look really good, once I got the color down I added a bit of white for highlight and it looks great.  The whole thing looks spooky, I want it to look foreboding.  On Celtic Demons the owner said when you go up you are at a different level.  The whole place is spooky and dark.  

This post has to be short, the kids are running amok today.  See why I do stuff at night! .