1 mirror down another 2 to go. yay ... the other mirrors are for xmas tho so i can put them aside for a bit .. these are fun to do and i enjoy switching from acrylic to cp... and i find i am coming accross many similar problems in both mediums but i am fixing them so thats great :)

anyway here is a post of the latest mirror, lorcan loved it and had a good 2nd birthday :)

Boys mirrors

Here is two more boys mirrors i am doing as presents. One will have a car theme an another will be dinosaurs.

One is for a birthday in a week or so, so i need to get these finished before moving on. :)

Mirror Sophia

Here is my latest in my line of mirrors which is for a 2 year olds birthday. I wanted to do a girly one and decided to do a pattern this time instead of pics in the background. I like this one not 100% on the colour of the letters but i need to finish it off so i dont mind it :) I think i will use the pattern in future ones.

Isn't it funny what you come across when you through your computer files...

I was doing a bit of housekeeping on my computer and looking through previous artworks when i came accross some old work i have done. I have been reading various blogs from oil painters lately and it has reminded me of how i enjoyed using them (but dont so much now as its a bit hard with the two kids) and hope to do some more in the future.

Anywho i came across these two oils i did some years ago, which i had totally forgotten about. I still have them on display in my Dad's showroom, hmmm maybe i should ebay them ? I love the background on the fruit pics, at the time i was experimenting with trying to show different textures. The other is acrylic which i also enjoyed i think i was experimenting with impasto on that one.

Well yay i am finished ! Theres a few things on here i am not happy with, i ended up erasing a few sections of this a couple of times which the paper didnt like so as a result i couldnt lay down as many layers as i wanted to in the end result. I had hoped that spraying would allow me to add a few more but it didnt work as well as i hoped.

Nonetheless i think this one came out not too bad for a first attempt. I learnt a few things with this one. One big thing is when i work so large i need to remember to work the "same" area in the one sitting. As i am frequently called away from my work i tend to work on small areas and become really focused without sitting back and working all over the place. This is one reason why i am choosing to do underpaintings as i really tend to struggle with this. Something to be mindful of in the future.

I have some really good ideas and subjects for my next pieces but i need to finish a few other projects i have going first. Stay Tuned!