on my workbench / easel

commission work - earlier stages

at the moment

Just a few little follow ups on my works in progress.

 

Abstract in oil still in progress

After a second week full of holiday art classes for the kids, I also managed to work a little on my projects and today I even went for a nice walk with my family. My little man (my son) and I walked up to the summit, my big man walked around the Mount with my daughter. Great way to spend the last day of their holidays.

winter in the Bay of Plenty :)

 

wood

part of a spread in one of my journals

I just wanted to share with you that I love wood, I love trees, old trees I can hear them talk... I also love wood to work on, I collect driftwood and fallen branches and pieces of reclaimed wood. Every now and then of course I will have to buy "new" wood. Like this Monday I went to check out a nice big macrocarpa slab for a sign I am commissioned to make....stay posted I will share ! For now I am sharing a couple of new Angels I finished ♥ Have a great week ♥

"Friend" 50 x 10 cm

SOLD 
thank you

♥

"Goodnight Moon" 45 x 9 cm

available

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Salty Dogs and commissions

I have been branching out a bit in the FisherFolk/Sailors/Seamen/SeaDogs >> Salty DoGs.....You can now have a very special item featuring your favourite pet. I will have different breeds available soon, or will take commissions as well

contact me HERE

Commissioned pieces all come with their own DoG-TaG

  

Meet "Halo" a Pekingese x Chihuahua cross

Things to share

I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas with loved ones.

 So now I can share two things that were Christmas presents and that I could therefor not share with you here on my blog.

Firstly the Angel I made for my Sister with her two dogs :) 

and secondly Zeus ( part two in the commissions of the Gods - remember I did Poseidon last year ?) And now I will start making some new stuff again, I want to make another one in the Umbrella series (the red one sold before Xmas as well)

Poseidon - Ποσειδῶν

 I was asked to do a commission before Christmas. It was supposed to be a gift for someone that is completely MAD about Greek Mythology and there I went ..... back to my high school days ..... re-reading the stories, re-acquainting myself with the Gods. Prompts were: It was supposed to look original/old somehow, not a modern painting of the Big Man. He needed to have his trident clearly visable and he needed to be on 24x36 inch canvas and have texture. I had already started my study into Frescoes at that stage, so it fitted in well. My mindset was historical and "old" and this is what I came up with some plaster added as if he were a statue rising up from the deep....I didn't share before obviously because he was not to see it before Christmas and then I got so busy with preparations for my Fresco workshop and also didn't want to spill the beans about what my workshop was going to be about..... But now that the class is open, this is something I can freely share. In week 3 and 4 of the workshop we will be working on canvas panels as well. 

Meet Amelia and Nolwenn

Meet Nolwenn and meet Amelia the protective dreamer

I will try to explain in short why and how.... The first time I met Nolwenn was last year, I don't even know anymore through which other on-line-art friend, but I read that she was looking for a name for the Innervoices-girls she paints. And she chose my suggestion (Nixies) -YAY !- and then she sent me a print of my choice as a thank you......:) 

And then in December I saw a photo she posted on her Facebook page

and I felt drawn to paint this beautiful face, probably because of those eyes, it's just a feeling I sometimes get. So I thought it would be kinda nice to join her with Amelia, make those two dreamers one. I hope she'll like it, I added a few subtleties, I'm gonna send it off to her tomorrow.

Thanks Nolwenn for the inspiration xoxo

If you like this style of portraits, I am available for commissions, just contact me here   -And don't forget to enter my Blog Give-away too, the winner will be drawn on 9 January ! (I know I added lots of links in this post, I am a curious person and like to share all the fun background information with you as well)

Maddy