Dreams

I took a break from painting years ago. When I came back to it I stared with this one. It sold, but I forget where. When I stopped painting, I had just got denied from entering a show I really wanted to be in. A lot of Painters get turned away from certain shows. A lot of good ones, and a lot of successful ones. It's part of the business. I was so discouraged I just quit. After about 6 months and hiking made me want to paint. Me and Malissa hung out with this model, who I always enjoy painting, and finally I was back at it.  Soon, this painting sold. So I learned I may never reach the level of sales I have dreamt to. But then again I might. But I learned I'm a Painter and it's what I'm drawn to do, so I will continue, whatever happens and just go with the flow. It's in me blood and there is no walking away. Maybe that's the key to understand your life's Dreams.

Stages

Not done yet, but here are three stages of this current work and a method for make twice as more flowers in a shorter time. I always tried to apply this technique when writing sentences for a teacher after getting in trouble, but I couldn't really make it work. It works here though! I actually used three pencils at the same time for a while.

Just a couple of pics from the new piece. Here is the drawing and you can see what I've done with the field. I've done a lot since this pic was taken yesterday, it's coming pretty good. A lot of people claim Color Pencil is slow, but I'm everyone's opposite ( as usual). I work much faster in Color Pencil. This is a 32x17 inch piece and I just started on this Saturday night. I just love the Color Pencil.

New piece

Here is the beginning of my next piece. I trace my drawing onto a Black matboard and then touched up the traced drawing while looking at the original. Not a good picture but you can see the process.