Water, Water by Terry Honstead

This one is done. I fell in love with this picture! (and maybe said that last time I talked about this, I am not sure.) But tonight I have finished it! The hardest and last part that I did was the shadow coming from the left side falling at an angle toward the water spigot. (thanks to all that told me the right spelling for that!!) I am still not real sure that I shouldn’t have done this in oil, but I guess I could still do it that way if I decide to sometime!. To me, that is what fits the picture the best, but I really do not like oils since the drying time is so long and with the kids that I have at home, I am always afraid that something will happen to my paintings before they dry!! The original picture of this painting was taken in Rome by my son or daughter-in-law, and I will always be thankful for the many wonderful pictures they gave me to “play” with!

A Little More Christmas!

I have been working on this for long hours and I still have a long way to go!  It is so detailed that it may be next Christmas by the time I finish it!!  I have the angel on the top of the tree and a lot of darkening and shading left to do along with more details.  It is coming along though, so I thought I should post a pick of where I am in it!

Christmas isn't quite over

I thought I would at least show you a pic of what I have been working on. I have plenty to do yet to get this finished, but I have done quite a bit in the last couple of days. Today I hope to work on it all day. Tomorrow I start a 12 week class for one student. I will be teaching her the ins and outs of acrylic and collage. I am looking forward to it! Tomorrows class will be all about the mediums and how to use them with the collage materials, or by themselves. But more of that tomorrow. Today I am working on this watercolor of Christmas. I just couldn’t quite let it go yet, even though the tree is now down in my house and my living room is back to normal again!

Welcome To My Lair

Well, as far as I know, I am done with my dragon on the door.  It has been a very process because it is so large.  Also since I did both sides of the door, it was an even longer process.  On the outside of the door where I was depicting the rock, I used light molding paste which I put on with a large palate knife.  Even after painting on it, that area retained a different texture than the rest of the door.  I used a transparent dark green and a quinacridone Crimson to mix the black background color.  The yellow underbelly is done with a textured yellow paper which I painted on as well.  I used a stencil that is the left over parts when sequins are made for the scale texture on the dragon skin.  I used some  on both the yellow (gold) and the red (copper)  The very last thing that I did was put a few patches of large mica flakes (gold flakes) on the "skin" to look like some of the scales were coming off.

Dragon changed again!

I just couldn't leave my dragon as it was!  I forgot to add the wings and even though I didn't really want to have to do parts over again, I decided that I had to!  I have also been working on the back....another thing that I didn't want to do but felt I had to do!

"The Hole" in Elk River, MN

I finished a painting that was commissioned. It is of “The Hole” in Elk River. Apparently it is quite a well known place and this painting has been around for quite some time. It has quite the history with it. I guess at one time it was a pond and a child drowned there. Some men got together and filled it in and then it was used for a football stadium and now a skating rink. Pretty interesting!! I just copied it. Original is by Glen Quist.

Dragon redone

I finished the front of my dragon painting and now am working on the back.  I had to change some parts of it from the last time I posted.  I just couldn't take it any longer.  I still am not sure this is how I actually wanted it to be, but.........  I am done with the front and started on the back.  I thought I should post the picture of how it looks now.  I should have done it before, but I have just been so busy with Thanksgiving that I just have not had the energy to do more!