To Omaha!

I have communicated some with some of you, but here's an Omaha update.

I'm moving to Omaha/Council Bluffs towards the end of June to work on a new website that Jocelyn's mom is starting to sell contemporary furniture, contemporary art, and much more! It sounds like I will managing the online art gallery portion of the site as well as photographing pillow for the partner pillow website, staging and photographing furniture, and doing miscellaneous graphic design work.

Hopefully everything will really take off and it will be a good way for artists to sell their work as people come in to buy contemporary furniture designs from the Google ad words. We also need to write a lot of blog articles about all things art/design/furniture/interior design/modern/contemporary related, so if you see anything awesome on the internet, or artists we should know about, send them my way. Or once the site is up post them yourself!

I'm leaving tomorrow to look for apartments in Council bluffs which seem to either be in a bad neighborhood or be out of my price range. Prayers are appreciated during this transition.

I hope the gallery will be a smashing success and I can sell all your beautiful contemporary art : )

Portrait

This is a photo I took a few weeks ago of my best friend's nephew. He was so interested in looking out our front door hatch! Wish I had though to be patient and get a landscape shot. I feel like the flowers might be a stronger composition that way. Sort of feel they're sticking out of the edge this way.

Final post on this painting...

So here is the final image. I was able to hand it over on Mother's Day and the client was happy. I will take it back to do one final adjustment, which is good because then I can take a proper photo of it.

Best part about this whole thing? Finding out that when the little girl saw the painting she pointed and said "Mama" and "Me" - which is makes the hours painting, fretting and repainting worth it. The bird is symbolic of the father/husband of the family, so this really is a family picture - which I think is cool.

I think if I had more time I would have liked to give this painting a little more of my style, but as long as the client is happy, then I am happy.

"Help" Update

Sorry for the glare, but this is the latest picture. I think if I spend several hours on it tomorrow I might have it finished by Mother's Day....

I also was able to get a better photo of the daughter and think that will help greatly getting her face to look like the darling little angel that she is...

And be honest. If you see something that looks horrid or way off whack, tell me. I'll post more pictures as I go, if you don't mind.

Also, after working with watercolors, I now realize how "Plastic" acrylic paints are... really looking forward to trying oils now.

Help! ... am I on the right track?

I am working on a painting for a client and I feel like I've spend my entire time reworking their faces and while I know I need to add in a zillion other things, will you please let me know what you think of it so far? Also, there will be a tree off to the left. I've added a picture of my set up just for fun. Oh, I've only included one of the pictures that I am using as a source just so you have an idea.

Also, I want to work to get their faces right and then play them up a little so it's more "painterly" as I am not a fan of photo realistic paintings.

Ugh... the more I look at these pictures the more I want to redo everything. Please tell me why drawing is so much easier than painting?

I wonder if finishing their bodies will help me be less frustrated...

But please, tell me what you think...