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Oils are enjoyable for me to use recently. Mostly I am messing around with slapping paint on and seeing if an image appears. I think all this bravado with the brush/knife marks will transfer to my realistic painting when I get around to doing that again... kind of loosening it up. On the other hand, I may just like all this abstract work so much I may never go back to 'realism'. I laugh out loud and smile and generally enjoy the abstract-whimsy style so much when I am in the midst of it. For rea… Continue

I enjoyed painting this little whimsy in oils (5ins by 8ins) this morning. Its called… Continue

Yesterday I was working on the sleepy lizard and decided to try marshmallow thinking. I thought of floating marshmallows on hot chocolate. So I did a small watercolour of the lizard (my chocolate) and floated my OP on top (marshmallows). First time I've used OP over waterco… Continue

Today, I got my boxes of oil pastels out...for a change. I like OPs as they give me license to do 'mad' things with colour. Very free-ing medium for me. I did this portrait of a lizard as part of a project on another forum. Its called 'Lizard dreaming of being a chameleon'… Continue

The four faces project gave me the push to try a series of self-portraits. I did my first one of me and my dog in watercolors. It was fun to use watercolours for a portrait. Not sure if I will continue with watercolours for all my self portraits...I might...or I may try various different mediums for the different portraits. I am rather intrigued by Frida Kahlo's self-portaits and I've ordered a book on her work from the library. Maybe I'll do a self portrait with monkeys or lemurs. I have a ph… Continue