"Moonwatch"
Acrylics mini-painting on 4" x 4" canvas board.

Yay, my Stars Fall Home Seanan McGuire CD arrived this week! I'll be posting about this album soon. This past week, I've been listening to Seanan's CD and the Hairspray soundtrack over and over again in the evenings, while I'm painting. I find I can't listen to words with music while I'm writing because I get too distracted.

When I'm drawing (on the computer or non-digitally), I tend to turn up the volume full-blast. Fortunately my office is two floors away from Jeff's home office.

A MUSIC SURVEY: What was the last CD you listened to, from start to finish?

"Ghosty Unicorn"
Acrylics mini-painting on 4" x 4" canvas board.

Wow, I'm SO ENJOYING acrylics painting. It reminds of what finger painting felt like when I was a little kid except the pictures end up somewhat nicer-looking and I don't try eating the paint.

I know I should probably take a course, but I lack the time and money (I'd rather spend the money and go to more writers' conferences right now). Instead, I ordered two books from Amazon:

The Acrylics Book: Materials and Techniques for Today's Artist by Barclay Sheaks
The New Acrylics by Rheni Tauchid

I also decided to be brave and try painting on a 6" x 6" stretched canvas rather than my usual (well...usual since I started last week) 4" x 4" canvas board:

"Nightmare Bunny"
Acrylics mini-painting on 6" x 6" stretched canvas.

Acrylics are amazing! If you add enough water, they almost look like watercolour. You acrylics painters out there are rolling your eyes, I'm sure, but hey -- this is all new to me. :-) For the background of this painting, I also experimented with adding texture by scrunching up some paper towel and dabbing it on the paint while it was still wet.

I did the unicorn painting as part of my Don't Ask Me To Draw A Horse effort. Ok, so a unicorn isn't exactly a horse. But hey...I wouldn't even have ATTEMPTED it a year ago, so at least I don't quite suck as much as I did last year:

All the paintings above are for sale in my shop as of this morning, by the way. Just click on any of the images for pricing and more info.

I've started exploring Etsy more thoroughly. GREAT place. I've already done some Christmas shopping on it. AND I found a fellow that sells mini-easels! I ordered a bunch and got a bulk discount.

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