PPF and more of my Cotton Candy Girls class!

It is hard to believe this was the last week of Natasha May's Cotton Candy Girl class!  It flew by & I just finished the girl for week 3 - that darn job thing just takes up so much time!  I had some trouble getting my free wheeling mojo up - lots of outside stuff going on!  Anyways, early in the week I was in the zone.... here is a pic of work in process - one for Natasha's class and one for Lisa Wright's class (yes, I am behind there also) -

I am really happy with the sketch of the Parrot, Rodney from a photo Lisa posted in our class!  I want to do him pure watercolor...I have avoided that for sometime now because of making muddy paintings...long story for another post.  Anyways, working on two totally different assignments FORCED me to let things dry.  I would do one part of the bird and move back to the CCG with the acrylics...wow, look how much better my watercolors work when I let each layer/color dry BEFORE I apply the next one:

I seriously have some value in the bird!!!!  I am sooooooooo excited....so now, back to my girl...I had to stop here and didn't get back to it for a couple days...lots had gone on with the family and my mojo magic was snuffed out!  I continued - not with Rodney...I have decided to be patient and come back to him but for my girl I ended up with a background I really didn't like, it totally flattened out the journal page!  She was blah! and had started out so much better than that, felt like I let her down.

I really was okay with trying something else BECAUSE in Lisa's Messy Book Group - mistakes are okay!  I decided to try nail polish remover to pull up some of the background paint to let all my sheet music show back through as it was supposed to had I done it right to begin with....I was okay with it if it totally wrecked the page...this isn't my Picasso so here it goes............

Nope, she is not what I had in my head when I started but I learned alot in the process...isn't that the point?! and, I do like her better now.
Enjoy your visits through Paint Party Friday, thanks to Eva and Kristin for hosting....featured artist this week is: Kat Sloma -another insightful interview!
AND DON'T FORGET TO CHECK OUT SUE BLEIWEISS BLOG!!!!  CELEBRATING THE RELEASE OF HER NEW BOOK, SKETCHBOOK CHALLENGE!!!  I have a sketch on page 27!!!
She is hosting a bloghop with over $1200 in giveaways!  A must see!


cheers, dana
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