A Painting!

 It's been a while since I've done an Oil Painting!

Here is a slideshow of some pictures I took while in the midst of creating this parrot. I started with a sketch on the canvas, from there I moved on to acrylic paint for an undercoat, and finally, oil paint was the last coat. The photos with the oil paints really got lots of glare, so I'll have to try and get a better picture of it sometime.

I hope you like the parrot. It's a blue and gold macaw, or a blue and yellow macaw, whichever you prefer. Macaws are types of parrots, put not every parrot is a macaw. Here are some more random facts about macaws.

-    There are roughly 20 species of macaws, many of which are endangered and critically endangered. -    Macaws are long-lived, living for as long as 60 years in the wild. 

-    Like other parrots, they are very social birds, often living in flocks of up to 30 birds.

-    Macaws, like other parrots can talk and mimic human speech.

Envelope Drawing

I also had time to draw on a few envelopes.

This one I wrote a letter to a stranger, anyone can open this one if they can find it.

Here is a USPS mail truck.

This last one is some butterflies for one of my sister's letters.

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Charcoal Drawing

 Our Lady of Fatima

This picture was drawn in charcoal. I was going to do her crown with colored pencil but as I got closer to the finish I knew it was supposed to be all charcoal, I just like drawing in charcoal. It took a while to finish, shading her face probably took the longest, but in the end I really like how it turned out.

Here is the final picture.

Pen Drawing

I also drew this pen drawing of Jesus' Crucifixion. My mom requested this so it can be hung up during Lent this year during.

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Which picture is your favorite?

Candy Bars

This Drawing Has Learned Me Something

Here is another envelope drawing I did for my sister for her fifty-two letters in a year project. The Three Musketeers. Have you ever wondered why it's called the Three Musketeers and not Two or One Musketeer … I haven't either until I saw their advertisement! 

Because without 3, you can't double dutch

Because 2 musketeers would think they're looking in a mirror.

Because 1 musketeer can't use the carpool lane

Source

This was done with markers, fine liner pens, and some watercolors.

KitKat Fine liner Pen

This is the second candy bar envelope that I drew. Probably my favorite two candy bars, 3 Musketeers and KitKat, I like Twix too, so I might have to draw a Twix as well.

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What is your favorite candy bar?

What should I draw next on an envelope?

Wood burning & Watercolor

 Watercoloring Kirk Cousins

I sat down at the table, did a little sketch, and then dipped by brush into water …

    

That's how this piece began. And after the paint was laid - it looked just like the photo above.

Wood Burning

This piece started a bit different. Still with watercolor but it was first burned on a piece of wood with a hot tool called a wood burner. And even before that it was traced on to the wood … and before that it was thought about for some time, trying to find the best position for each player.

Now go forward a few steps and we return to the step where this piece is being painted. With watercolor.

After it was all done I decided to cut a little frame for it to nicen up the edges. This piece features quarterback, Kirk Cousins, wide receiver, Adam Thielen and Justin Jefferson, tight end, Kyle Rudolph, and running back, Dalvin Cook from the MINNESOTA VIKINGS. 

My plan is to get all of their signatures so if any of you are reading this blog, yeah that's you Kirk, Kyle, Dalvin, Justin, or Adam. You guys should come sign this artwork for me!

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-Who is your favorite Viking's player?

This could be my last …

 My Last Saints on 7.25 x 9.75 paper?

Saint Dymphna 

It brings me great sadness that I must abandon this project with this last piece of Saint Dymphna. The last 'Saint on 7.25 X 9.75 Paper' - I had high hopes that I could finish all fifty-two drawings, but as I shuffled through my folder I discovered only one page left that measured 7.25 by 9.75 inches, it is the one you see below, Saint Dymphna.

• Patron saint of the mentally ill

But I will continue … only it'll be different size paper.

I'll have to use 7 X 10, only a tiny difference of 0.6875 inches in area. - They won't take as long!

Video of this Drawing - 

https://youtu.be/KFobOQYVRUs

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More Envelopes

Envelope Painting

Here are a few more envelopes

A smell this envelope with a lotus flower painted on. The flower didn't turn out how I liked so I added a message to cancel out the perfection.

A little chickadee watercolor.

A blue jay, this was my first envelope bird.

A cardinal.

This is my favorite in this series, a can of Bush's Original Baked Beans. I might have to do a larger version of this.

I hope you enjoyed these envelopes.

 

Saint Benedict with Video!

- Father of Western Monasticism

-Saint Benedict of Nursia-

I've finished letter B, next I will jump to letter D, with Saint Dymphna and Saint Dominic, as I have already done the C's. I like to jump around the alphabet, just to confuse people that like orderly fashions. Isn't it boring if everything is in line, perfect, and in an order that pleases you.  Never in real life is there perfect order and reason for things - same goes for this series, whatever letter I feel like doing next will be the one - F doesn't have to come after E.

-     Here is the finished drawing done in colored pencil on 7.25" X 9.75" paper. I have updated the page, "Saints on 7.25 X 9.75 Paper."

I have also recorded this drawing as I drew, the video is down below. I have had many requests to do another time lapse video from my many followers, so here it is, maybe I will record the rest of this series.

https://youtu.be/-c14mCT0Fxk

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