More of The Little Train That Could

I've carried on painting this - its such a lovely painting!



Here's where I'm up to, the sky and the mountain on the top right:

Then I carried on and did most of the green:

  

I'm trying to get it finished over Easter, but it may well slip into next week, as I've a couple of bridesmaid toile fittings to do...

The little train that could

This is an A4 painting I'm doing for someone who was the successful bidder in the Solid Saints auction I contribute to every year.

It shouldn't take me too long to do, here's the source image:

Yes, I've flipped the image - Ketar (who it's for) sent me a lower res image without the text this way round, but the image was too low to use, so he sent me the cover art instead. I flipped it so it was the same way round as his original image, but will be leaving off the text.


Here's my pencil outline:

I'm going to work on it today.

Vice image is finished!

Here it is at last! it's taken longer than I expected it to, for a variety of reasons, but it's heading off to it's new owner tomorrow:

Vice magazine cover almost done

I've painted hard for a day or so - really need to get this painting finished, as I've a small matter of 4 bridesmaids dresses to make in the next 8 weeks! I start them in a week's time, and have a small Child's Play painting to do as well, before I move on to the next person on my list.

Here's where I'm up to:


Whole thing:

Close-up left:

Close-up right:

I've realised I've made her body too thin, I'll widen it slightly.

Vice magazine cover for Zilla update

As the title suggests, I've made a bit more progress. 

It's getting to the stage where I'll be changing colour every 10 minutes, and I'm having to hold back on starting any outlining. 

So tempting, as it will completely change how the painting looks, but I'm going to hold off until I've finished all the colours!

Close-up left:

Close-up right:

The whole thing:

More of Zilla's painting done

I've done the clothing now, quite enjoyed painting concentric circles!

I'm hosting a Fair Trade coffee morning tomorrow, so I probably won't have much time to paint. Maybe in the afternoon!

Stripes re-done

Well, I spoke too soon: I started the stripes, then realised that I'd drawn too many and had to start again! Grrrrr.

Waaaay too many stripes here - almost double what I needed. I clearly got carried away with myself!

I then painted out two out of every three stripes. this was not fun:

I then repainted them - made some wider, and painted one new stripe for every two I'd painted out:

Thankfully, I also remembered to paint the shading of the stripes in. Here they are close up as well:

This was frustrating - I hate it when i get a painting wrong, but there was no alternative, I had to repaint the whole left hand side, it would have looked silly if I hadn't, wouldn't have matched the source image at all. It would have made placing the smaller things difficult as well.

Next step, the orange and yellow top!