So here is the sketch of Tinkerbell! I hope the painting comes out as good. I am a little nervous to try my hand at the acrylics again. Drawing this I used a couple different references and combined them. I didn't want to just copy a picture. For her pose I did use one reference and then changed up her dress and added the flowers from a different reference, but still changed them up a bit.
This past week was crazy, with all the news about the Boston Marathon Bombing. My heart goes out to all the people of Boston. I am so glad they were able to catch them.
During the week I was happy to have finished the Rooster painting for my sister. Now I need to get on the sketch for the Tinkerbell painting for my little sister.
This weekend I took a Weekend Watercolor Workshop. We met up both Saturday and Sunday for 5 hours both days. I didn't realize how tough watercolor is to work with. I do like it and I think I am going to try and get a small medium grade kit and play with it. I do have some Crayola watercolors but I don't think the colors are bright enough. I was thinking about Sakura Koi Watercolors. What brands would you recommend? Here are the couple of the paintings I came up with during my class.
TV: I didn't really watch to much TV this past week. I end up recording Bates Motel on Monday Night and watching it Tuesday Night. Still a very interesting show.
Movie: We rented Django Unchained Saturday night. This is a Quentin Tarantino movie and he is one of my favorite Writers/Directors/Producers. This one was about slavery in the 1800s. It really depicted the harshness of slavery and racism. Of course the blood and killing was exaggerated, definitely Tarantino style. My only complaint was it was super long at just about 3 hours. Sunday night we did end up watching the movie Avatar on TV, another great move.
Books: I finally finished Beautiful Chaos! I do like this series of books so far, I just still think that the story line is dragging on a bit. I have started the last book of the series Beautiful Redemption. I am hoping with this being the last book, that it clears a lot of things up and comes to a good closure.
Music: I was over my Aunts house sometime at the end of February and my cousin was watching one of the award shows. I don't really watch the award shows much anymore, but this band Fun. came on and I was instantly interested in them. I went and looked them up and relate to most of their songs. This one especially with all I have been going through the past couple of years. I have to just tried and remember to keep moving forward and Carry On!
Food: I actually made a couple recipes from Pinterest this week. I am horrible and forgot to take photos of both dishes. The first one I made Thursday night was Pierogi Casserole, I have made this before and it has become one of our favorite meals. Sunday morning before my class I started this Honey Garlic Chicken in the crockpot. When I got home the house smelled amazing. I made some rice to eat with it, and it was really good.
Well I hope everybody is enjoying my Weekly Adventures with some of my favorite things.
Crystal's Rooster Oil Painting 11"x14" (Present for Sister)
Finally finished with the Rooster.
Now I need to start on the sketch for my next painting. My little sister wants me to paint her Tinkerbell. I am thinking because she is younger that I should do it in acrylic. This should be interesting considering I am enjoying the oil painting. I find acrylic a little more difficult to work with, wish me luck.
This week wasn't to adventurous! Been very busy at work, we are right in the middle of designing all our books for the coming year. I really need to share more of my designs from work on here.
I went and visited my Mom this Saturday and took a picture of the sun behind some clouds as I was heading home.
TV: Still watching Bates Motel and I really like how crazy the whole family is. I was over the boyfriends house the past couple of fridays and he has got me into watching Shark Tank. I kind of like seeing how people present their ideas and products to these moguls for money to back them. Sometimes people are so stupid and shoot themselves in the foot. The moguls are pretty tough on a lot of the people.
Books: I am still reading Beautiful Chaos, getting real close to being finished with it. Since I am not done with that one I thought I would review a book I previously read. Maybe I should just review an author who has steadily become one of my favorites, Melissa Marr. I have to admit I started reading the Wicked Lovely book, one because I loved the cover, and two because it was about fairies. These fairies are a different kind of fairy than your typical Tinkerbell. They are dark, beautiful, and conniving. There are 5 books in the series, a definite must read if you like fairies. She also has a book called Graveminder, this book was a bit creepy, but a great story. The last book I read by her is called The Carnival of Souls. This book is about daimons (demons) and witches and how they cannot seem to exist together. The daimons have a class system and they have this fight to the death type competition. They are fighting for respect and honor. There is a lot more to the story than that but it was a great story and I am looking forward to the next book to come out. Also because of this story is why I fell in love with Five Finger Death Punch. Here is a trailer for the book:
Music: My music choice of this week is Otep's Apex Predator. I love how she is such a strong woman and not afraid to speak her mind.
Food: I have been wanting to make these Donut Muffins I found on Pinterest. They tasted really good, I can't say they tasted that much like a donut but somewhat similar. The only thing is they were kind of thick and you needed something to drink with them. We think they were missing something, maybe blueberries? You can find the recipe here.
I also took this picture of these Ibis' on the wire in front of my house. Aren't they to big to be up there!
Well that was all the excitement for this past week. I am looking forward to this weekend. I signed up for a Watercolor Weekend Workshop so I am excited to see how I do in the class. I will be sharing photos.
