I’ve been busily working on this piece and love how she turned out.

She is “Aging Disgracefully”. She’s spent her whole life being judged, and she still doesn’t give a damn.

Original mixed media canvas board – 76 x 60cm and created in graphite, acrylics and charcoal.

And the progress shots:

Original: NZ$545 plus postage

http://fineartamerica.com/featured/aging-disgracefully-louise-williams.html

I have some new pieces I want to work on, maybe in a different style, different mediums… gotta love playing!!

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I’ve been busy again, brain overload with ideas that I have to get down onto canvas before my head explodes completely.

This is my next piece – I call her The Optimist. She sees the fun in things despite the difficulties. She cries but doesn’t let it beat her.

She started simply, a graphite sketch.

I actually really liked her in black and white but thought she looked too masculine and the tears weren’t clear enough so next was acrylic paint.

After that she needed defining again with charcoal and white paint and she was finished.

She’s an optimist, seeing the joy despite the tears and the original and prints are available here: http://fineartamerica.com/featured/the-optimist-louise-williams.html

Thanks for looking!!

January 2013 and I’m having a completely fresh start. So much has changed for me in the past year and I’m super excited at the direction I’m heading and felt I needed a new blog – all fresh and squeaky clean – to reflect that. All the old posts have gone *cough deliberate mistake cough* so it’s all new!

I started this year doing pieces that I wanted to do, stuff for me, practice pieces that would either work or not.I thought I’d share progress shots as I personally love seeing someone’s work come together.

My first one was this one which I’ve called Blind Faith. She has learnt to trust, to release herself from fear and is ready to face whatever may come.

I started with graphite onto a canvas board.

Once I had the basics done I added layers of acrylic paint for colour.

It still needed some depth so charcoal was added for detail.

Finally I added touches of white to add realism and more depth of colour and light.

And there she is, the finished piece – Blind Faith. The original is available for purchase along with prints from FineArtAmerica.com.