Seascape Artist

Yesterday and today, I created two seascapes with one whimsical palm tree per painting … both are going to be the “background image” for one of my seascape tea party graphics I have planned. I already have scanned a few of my faery mushroom ladies … I have a few flowers ready to insert … no tea cups, tea pots or Mad Hatter nor Cheshire Cat Grin yet … yeppers … as you can guess … Alice in Wonderland and that magical tea party are what is inspiring this series of faery tea party at the seaside.

I think I am probably about 2-3 weeks away from having everything I want for the first let alone the second in the Sea-side tea party at the beach with whimsical palm trees.

Maybe I will go work on a cheshire cat grin now … that sounds like a fun thing to do just before going to bed for the night! I gotta re-read the story … it has been YEARS since I read the book! I love my adorable drawing of The Red Queen’s Spy though as well as both the back ground images I have created so far! I had something else in mind until yesterday for the background and these just appeared on my paper. This is a really fun series to paint! I have no idea if I will be painting the entire Cheshire Cat or just it[’sgrin … the grin part is easy … it is the entire cat that might be way out of my capability! Time will tell … I make no promises … but it has always been the grin that inspired me to love that Cheshire Cat! but …. the tail is marvelous too … maybe I will have to find the tail swishing around at the beach!

I started my next free project ebook … made the images … now I need to write the steps that go with them and create the pdf … my goal is to do it by the end of this coming week-end … any time before then would be a bonus! Getting my hair cut tomorrow so not sure how much painting I will get done … but perhaps one little mushroom or palm tree will find it’s way onto my drawing table.

I went to buy a new 12″ x 12″ square frame today – the one I had broke but the major reason is that I promised my daughter’s Mother-in-Law a painting for her church … event … not sure what it will be called yet … if she wanted to raffle one off to draw in more visitors. I need to create a painting that is pretty and nice to put in the frame to be raffled or something.

I got 2 really pretty blue frames … they are a metallic bright blue … they are metal frames according to the label. They have a mat that has four 4×4 openings – a collage frame … interestingly enough … I have some lovely 6″ x 6″ Bristol – smooth finish … or I have 12″ x 12″ watercolor paper 140 lb … not sure yet quite except that I got the blue because I believed it would be the best choice for seascape artwork which is what I want to donate. Hot pink and pea green did not seem to be a good match to my artwork so bright blue it was for both … seascapes have lots of blue in them and blues usually would be a great idea color match for many seascape paintings.

Perhaps 4 separate palm tree paintings? Or 1 large seascape? Decisions decisions decisions!!!! I do not have to decide right now tonite .. I just know that I will be using several shades of blues in both watercolor pencils and india inks … and perhaps even watercolor crayons perhaps? Only time will tell.

I saw some lovely square 8″ x 8″ with 5″ x 5″ opening frames today as well as 8″ x 8″ openings matted down to 5×5. Paper and frame sizes are changing from the old standards … I love the 6″ x 6″ size for my seascape tea party individual drawings … I have it all planned to create a plethora of single item drawings to be scanned and assembled together in the computer to create various seascape tea party prints. I plan to print them my self on 12″ X 12″ sheets of 140 lb watercolor paper too so I can frame them easily. The new papers and frame choices are very exciting and make for an interesting body of work for me in the near future of 2010.

My goal is to create at least one seascape tea party scene each month. I can re-use elements from one to anther – so far I have 3 plants and a palm tree in front of a sunburst created … I need some tea party items … tea cups … tea pots … a cheshire cat grin would be fabulous too I think … perhaps this is my love of Alice in Wonderland crossed with ocean beach love .. lol … interesting will be 2010 to say the least!!!!!