Day for Reference Photos

Today I prepared for a future painting by asking a photographer friend to take photographs of me nursing baby Goose. She took some wonderful photographs in between nursing breaks for big grins at the camera. It was very distracting for her to be photographed while eating.
It was wonderful to have help getting reference photos I never could have captured on my own. She will be editing the photos slightly and getting them too me soon.
After getting the kiddos to bed I got out "Hogan on Guitar" with the intention of working but after staring at it for an hour and printing of extra reference photos I gave in to my lack of inspiration and pulled out what I really wanted to be working on.

 

I had only minor changes to make but it still took me hours to accomplish. Painting is now 95% complete. Sometimes the last 5% takes as much time as all the rest and it is not as exciting because the changes are not as extreme.

 

I have been so excited to have lots of people following my new facebook page. https://www.facebook.com/debbybirdartist . A fellow artist shared my page on hers and my cousin who makes beautiful felted animals also shared my page so I am beginning to have an audience slightly larger than friends and family. I means a lot to get "likes" from people I have never even met. Being able to share my work with others who truly enjoy it is inspiring.

Tidepool complete

Today I finished "Tide pool" and I started a new Facebook page to highlight my work.

 

https://www.facebook.com/debbybirdartist

 

I still have lots of labeling to do and I need to figure out how to best utilize it. I would love to get some followers that follow simply because they love the work and not just because they know me.

Of course ones mother will always say that you paint well but you need a stranger to say it before you start to think it is not just a biased opinion.

 

Last night I stayed up late again to continue working on Pope Francis. It is kind of addictive to be working on a new painting, I just want to be working on it all of the time. It was hard today to focus on Saturday cleaning when I wanted to get my paints out and get to work.

I am planning a new painting that will be titled milkweed, and am excited to get going. It seems that the more I paint the more ideas I have. I used to think that I could not paint anything because I did not have much that really inspired me but I have discovered that if you just start painting more and more inspiration will happen. I have so many ideas of paintings now I could be busy for a while. I would love to have some sell so that I can fund all of these upcoming paintings, so if you have seen a painting you like let me know!

The Baby aka Goose has been extra fussy for the last few days, not wanting me to put her down much at all. Also waking up more at night. I am operating below par but so excited about paintings I don't want to give up my late night painting sessions.