silhouette + houses

Here's a little drawing for an upcoming holiday show at 323 East. 

5" x 7" ink on paper

I'm doing a small collage of frames with various silhouettes, boats and victorian houses. 

Pretty much my favorite things ever ♥


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Also, a group show I'm in in Oakland opened tonight. 


Sadly I wasn't able to make it as large portions of Oakland are currently rioting & those sorts of things make me uncomfortable/freaked out. San Francisco rioting over the Giants winning the World Series is different. That was celebratory. This is not. 


Anyway, I have two paintings in the show which will be up for a few weeks. Sad to miss the opening of a show with such a spectacular title! 


xx

blog facelift + progress pictures

Every so often I get really bored with my blog layout and make a radical change. Today was one of those days. I've spent the better half of this fine Tuesday eating burritos and doing html coding. ( I did some heavy reconstructive surgery on this theme, and the overall feel was inspired by my bff Morgan's tumblr )

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Anyway, haven't worked on my painting today, but here are a few more pictures of the progress:

I finished the tattoo sleeve the other day, (the camera doesn't pick up the lines too well), but I'll be scanning her when it's all said and done. I am contemplating doing a chest-piece, but I feel it may be too much. What do you think? Perhaps  I'll save that for my next piece, which I'll be starting this weekend! Clealry I'm an artaholic. 

The words are difficult to make out in this light, but it says "thy eternal summer shall not fade", which is a line from a Shakespeare sonnet that I hold close to my heart.

I have also pretty much decided that I am going to treat myself to a victorian house tattoo(s) once the funds allow it! Excited.

Hope you and your Tuesday is going beautifully, thank you for stopping by.

xoxo

Charmaine

Work in Progress

Thank you so much for the sweet comments on my previous post, it sure is good encouragement!

Here are some preview/work in progress pictures of my next piece for the show at Gallery Hijinks.

Oh, and some little drawings from the airplane home. 

There's something really therapeutic about drawing on planes.

xoxoxo

Housekeeper

Oil, acrylic & ink on wood. Hope you like it.

Sneek Peak

Little preview of a new piece I'm working. Oils on wood.

My palette:

yellow ochre, titanium white, alizarin crimson, burnt sienna, ultramarine blue, cadmium yellow, black

dino

detail

Little ferocious dino. A commission for a wedding gift.

Acrylic paint, india ink & micron pens.

Now I'm off to the post office to mail it!

It's raining today in San Francisco, as it usually does in winter. Joe's foot is doing a lot better! He still can't walk, but it seems to be healing well.

Are you excited for winter? I am :)