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Drawing and Painting

Melia — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 06:52:07 +0000

I have been busy. Lots of late nights sketching, inking and painting. Every moment seems to be spent creating. I take my daughter to swim classes and I draw, I take her to the pool, and I ink, sitting in a restaurant with my watercolors while waiting for dinner to arrive. Really at some point I am going to need to get more sleep. But in the mean time if you want to keep up to date with what I am working on, check out my facebook fan page.

Well, it is nearly 2 am here, so I better try and get some sleep. There are swim classes in the morning and my son’s birthday to celebrate.

Kitties! And Dragons too.

Melia — Thu, 27 May 2010 04:20:48 +0000

I just realized that I haven’t posted the promised completed paintings that I showed you the line drawings of a few days back. Well here they are in full color for your viewing pleasure.
Also I have a new sketch that I have been wanting to share. I had to wait until the scanner was hooked up to the new computer to show it off. But once again life with a kitten is showing itself in my drawings. When I can get around to actually painting this one, those round things on the hat band will be gears, except fo the one that is obviously a pocket watch. Then of course there is always the squished fairy. I really don’t know which I want to paint first….

Choices, Choices, Choices

Melia — Mon, 17 May 2010 01:37:30 +0000

I had to get a new computer this weekend, which getting it put together and up and running, took the entire weekend. Thank you, James. So I don’t feel like I got much done at all. I did manage to pick 3 drawings from my sketchbook and ink them. But now, I am not sure which to start painting. Maybe I will work on all 3 at once.
So here we have Adopt A Kitty- a cute little dragon with a new little kitten – if you have been following my blog I bet you know where that idea came from.
The other 2 cupcake drawings were inspired by a similar painting by Jennifer Nilsson featuring a mouse and cupcake – which you might notice on the right as a ad linking to her artfire account. You know you want to click on it and see the rest of her wonderful art. Go ahead, I don’t mind. These little drawing will still be here when you get back for you to check out. Maybe when you get back, I might even have added a bit of color to them.

Mommy Fairy Cat

Melia — Tue, 11 May 2010 16:01:37 +0000

Well Mommy is painted. And you might notice a pattern difference in Mama from my usual kitties. Up until recently I have had solid colored or basic tabby cats in my life. With the recent addition of little Willow, I think more fur patterns will be sprouting in my kitty art. This little painting was of course inspired by our new family addition, even the fur pattern on Mama. The painting is an 8×10″ watercolor.

Mommy Fairy Cat – WIP

Melia — Fri, 07 May 2010 21:48:19 +0000

This took all day since I spent a lot of time caring for little kitten of my own. It really is like having a baby in the house again. Maybe I can start painting this once J gets home, or maybe I will just go to bed early.

Mother’s Day Sketch- A Fairy Cat Family

Melia — Thu, 06 May 2010 21:27:34 +0000

With mother’s day coming up, and the German Shepherd having adopted a very tiny kitten, this drawing was destined to happen. Here we have a very elegant little mama fairy cat with her 3 little kittens. I just wish I could draw that mini tornado siren like wail that comes from such tiny little kitties.
Yes, little Willow has been recovering from her eye and respiratory infections nicely. She is active and loud, and very very adorable. I doubt that left eye will ever point at exactly the same spot as her right, but as an indoor kitty, her eyesight won’t be as big an issue for her. I am looking forward to the end of her quarantine so that she can be with our other kitty Hunin and won’t have to spend the night alone and crying in the other room. Of course Hunin is old and set in her ways and is sulking just from hearing the kitten. The vet assures me that she will accept a kitten better than she has accepted puppies or other cats. We are hoping.
But in the mean time I will try and get some work done on this little kitty mama and her babies in between feeding, medicating, and cuddling with Willow. It is hard to tear myself away, but I will do my best. If all else fails, I can post photos of Willow for your enjoyment.

New Fairy Cat bookmark Design

Melia — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 22:33:26 +0000

Well, this is my next project. Took all day just to get to this point and it is only 3×9 inches. I am hoping to get it painted so I can make some bookmarks from it before Friday.
Why Friday? Why this weekend is my first outdoor art festival in a couple of years. If it goes well, I might try and talk J into doing more of these again. If I rent a tent, I can get by without a van. Which is good, because the old van bit the dust and we have no plans to replace it.
Anyway, if nothing else, I will get some bookmark pages for folks to color to have at the festival, as well as coloringbooks, original art, prints and other fun things. So Saturday stop by the Thrill of the Grill festival in Plano and get yourself some art.

Flitter – All Done

Melia — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 15:13:21 +0000

I was up late last night working on this one. I was just too focused to set it aside and get the sleep that I knew I needed, still need actually. But I am very happy with the results. But to be honest those paintings that insist on being painted are usually the ones that turn out the best, even if they do disrupt my life completely. I just wish the snickerdoo at cafe brazil today was fully caffinated.
Yes, I am sitting at cafe brazil again posting this. It is where I go to work when I really really need to see something other than my studio walls. It helps that the coffee is yummy. Now if only I could schedule my late nights so that morning after would provide fully loaded snickerdoo coffee.

Flitter – A fairy cat inked

Melia — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 00:36:18 +0000

Well, here we are at the inked stage of Flitter. Now I can paint it. What colors should it be?

A sketch of some pretty fancy wings

Melia — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 20:33:00 +0000

Alright, it isn’t turning out anything like what I had in my head. But when I start thinking swirls, the drawings always seem to evolve into something like this. I am going to have to rely on my light table and some tracing paper to get the sketch symmetrical, but this gives a pretty good idea of what I am thinking. I am not sure what size this is going to be, but I suspect that it will have to be bigger than my poor scanner can handle and I will have to hire out the scanning just so I can show you folks what it will look like. And this is going to take some time to complete.