Second Two

I started work today on the second two degrees panel painting. The underpainting is done...Very exciting. I know it needs more work on it, and the first panel painting needs a bit of tweaking too. This newest one needs some fussy close up detail work to do the sheet music in the background. Can happen tomorrow. And I will work on getting the underpainting stage done on the third panel.

Here (above) is a shot of the first and second panel paintings together. I love how they look !

Here is the original post I showed these three panels' compositions: http://bluekoistudio.blogspot.com/2010/01/creating-new-compositions.html:

Very exciting. Stay tuned for more tomorrow.

Butterfly Shadows

I have been quietly working on an old canvas I had done a background on some time ago. I have picked it up and created a flight of butterflies on it, painting their silhouettes. I know they don't look like much yet. The canvas was originally done in oils, so I need to keep with that, and oils take longer to dry for me to move to the next step.

So, right now the canvas with their shadows looks very dark. But when they get their little colored highlights, I think it will brighten up ! Stay tuned, for more on the weekend !

New ! Blue Koi Studio Paintings Gallery debut

Check out the new Blue Koi Studio Paintings Gallery on top right of the blog page. I am still learning to set this up, format captions, work out how to make it look nice, etc. It's all a learning process, right ?! This means, I will be making improvements as I go along and learn how to do it.

If you hover your cursor above the gallery, at the bottom of the gallery window you should get an option to pause the gallery slideshow or to continue to advance it, or forward or back arrow buttons to move forward to next or back to previous gallery slideshow images. At the end, it stops and you should get a right-arrow button to allow you to play it over again. Anyway, this is what I can see and do from my views, hope you can too !

Hope you enjoy the gallery :)