Update and Paint Party Friday

 So I haven't painted much this year and I can't believe it is almost over.  I am working on a couple boxes 1 of them actually commissioned the other 2 just my wacky inspirations.  

I thought would share on commission. It is a work in progress... 

This is a box for a former marine. I decided to paint his portrait on the top of the box. Probably the smallest portrait I have ever done. Took me a couple tries to be happy with. 

The person who ordered the box wanted me to incorporated messages like "Thank you for your service!", "You're My Favorite Marine!" and "You'll Always be My Hero!"

So I had some little miniatures and decided to make them holding posters with the messages. 

I still have more to paint on the inside. I am going to paint the marine's flag inside the top. I then have to seal and gloss the top and bottom. Oh, add another miniature in the front. 

I linked this with Paint Party Friday.

Painting Request - Eagles Defeat Cowboys

My mother requested me to paint painting for a friend of hers.  The friends is a Philly Eagles fan.

She couldn't find out which player was her favorite...so I came up with this one showing the Philly mascot and their most known enemy The Cowboys.

Paint Party Friday 3 Painting - The Fairy Trap WIP

I call this The Fairy Trap.  It is oil on canvas and a work in progress.  I have clean it up a bit.  Can you see the fairies.  One is being digested.  Yeah I have to work on that.

I did this for a contest on EBSQ.  The Theme is Carnivorous Plants.  

I looked up pictures and saw one Venus fly trap with a fly or beetle and you could see the silhouette of the bug in the trap.  I thought what if fairies get caught by venus fly traps too.

Happy Friday!

Norse Goddess Sif

Last weekend it there was day that was celebrate Goddess of Fertility Day.  My favorite Goddess of Fertility is Norse Goddess Sif.  She was wife to Thor.   

I first painted her on the ACEO/ATC card(below) and it did not come out as I hoped. I am still thinking about selling it at Etsy but i don’t know.

Listening For The Boss

I call this painting Listening for the boss.  I know it is a little late for holiday paintings but i just haven't felt like taking the picture.

I painted this with craft arcylics. I didn't really want the blue in the snow but dripped some in there by accident, but as Bob Ross says there are no accidents.;-)

Peacocks!!

I painted two ATC (Artist Trading Cards) both are peacocks from a children's story I wrote and hope to one day get published.

Here is Juniper 

And Here is Virginia

The Original can be bought at the Confuzzled Design Etsy store 

And some card of the art can be bought at the Zazzle store flash panel and link below

Create a personalized gift at Zazzle.

WIP - Just Fooling..

I am working on this painting at the moment.  It has references to Tarot, and Bible.  It needs a lot of work yet. Lately I haven't felt the need to work on it but yet I have it staring in front of me everyday.   Part of me wants to work on it to fix the errors like the arm and more since it is right in front of me.  The other part doesn't feel like bringing out the paints.

Old Painting - Native American Woman in Blanket - 2007

This is actually my version of a piece of art that was done by someone else.  I saw there version in a Painting Magazine.

Old Paintining - Nala Sitting - 2007

This is my dog Nala in front of our DVD collection in our old apartment.   Can you spot the Joss Whedon collection? lol

Old Painting - Lazy River - 2007

I am not sure if I studied a picture with this one or not.  I know the title came from the lazy river in Disney World at one of the water parks.  That park was so nice a relaxing.

Old Painting - Kitten On Couch - 2007

You can't tell but I actually studied a picture for this painting.  Always been bad at perpective. lol Working on it.

Old Painting - Grandmom Kilpatrick and Dad - 2007

This is a portrait of my Great Grandmother Rose Kilpatrick and my father sitting on her lap.  It was on a small canvas so the eyes were really hard to do.

Old Painting - Graceful Ceiling - 2007

Have you ever look at clouds or a ceiling and seen images in it. Well this what I use to see when I took baths at my parents house.  An image of a baby in a bathtub surrounded by skeleton, clown and dragon.   I didn't show this one off so well.  I don't know why I picked brown as a background.  Looks much better in drawing then painting.

Nala and Smokey Story Board 1

These are the first three panels to a illustration to a children's book.  Not the final but a start. 

Old Painting - Excess IV - 2007

Just another Abstract ...

Old Painting - Excess III - 2007

This one too me looks stonehenge/ sci-fictionish. 

Old Painting - Excess I - 2007

Ignore the date stamp.  I trying to figure out how the camera worked then I think... I call this Excess I .  I felt bad about having all this excess oil paint after done a painting so I tried abstract.  This is what I got.  No real meaning just excess. lol

Old Painting - Duck - 2007

This is done in acrylics and on paper.  I drew the duck first looking at a picture.  Again not my best but pretty good I think.

Old Painting - Devil Inside 2007

I am not going really explain this one.

Old Painting - Boy in Goggles - 2007

Just in time for summer.   I could really use to go swimming now.

Yes I know his arms and hand are kinda off.  It's not perfect but I tried and if I tried for perfect I would never call it done but done it is.

This was done in Oils on Canvas