big picture day ...

last post, no pics ....

this post, plenty o' pics .....

these first three pics are details of my second four foot by six foot canvas ..... i couldn't pick it up and take a good and true photo of it, because the glue isn't dry .... 
but you get the idea ... until tomorrow ..... 

allison was over to paint today ..... and cheered me on as i finished my giganto canvas ..... when that was done and drying, i pulled out fifteen six inch square canvases .... and covered them in maps ...... 

then i glazed them with a couple different yellows, dry brushed with some heavy body turquoisee .... and stenciled them with a light yellow ... in a (loud) moment of inspiration, i shouted out to al that OH i'm going to do a branch series .... so these fifteen paintings will have branches .... and things that go with and on branches .....the backgrounds probably need another layer or two or three of something or other ...... and then i'll start with the foreground .....

i'm not sure how much paint time i'll make this weekend .... but at the very least, i'll snap a final pic of the big fish ...... hope you have a grand and happy weekend ... and make time to do something fun and creative .....