There were no Saint's Festivals in Ediger-Eller today, so we were thankful to them for that anyhow.
Got a lot more of my painting done since then - I made some adjustments to the composition and have been collecting a few details of leaves and ironwork. There's a great set of doors down the road, which has a lot of scrolly, curly design on it which is just what I'm looking for - I'll post that tomorrow when I'm a bit more ahead with it.
When I last said anything about painting - seems ages ago now and this is a painting blog, - I was tracing the design out and beginning to draw it in on the board (this is a new brand of acrylic board for me and so far it seems O.K....)
Here's the painting after I went over the traced lines - and the first bit of paint! Like I said, if the eyes don't work, nothing works, so I always do them first.
Then, since it was a nice day and I was happy to be painting, I started to fill in the background as well - just big chunks of colour to begin with - and now I'm ready, nearly, to start putting in some of the scrolly borders and a bit of plantlife. Then the detail....
The weather is gorgeous here today after some miserable grey weather earlier this month. Glad I hung me washing out anyway. We're off in a few minutes to meet a friend of ours at Thiesen's WeinStube. What's that? I swore I'd never drink again. Well, you know as well as me that you can't believe everything you read on the internet.
You hafta laugh though.
Don't you...?
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