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art post: New Year paintings

July 25, 2012 by kamaliaetalia

For several years, one of my family’s Christmas vacation traditions has been painting. Not everyone participates every year, but new paintings always get made. I typically end up doing my painting on New Years Eve or New Years Day.

Crooked Ukelele, 2006
I should have laid down the strings — or at least one of them — before I painted the bottom tension bar of the ukelele. Then it might not look quite so warped.

Fezant, 2010
During 2010, my parents frequently observed a wild pheasant on the grounds of their church building. They took lots of pictures of him, but I never got to see him myself. That year, my brother made fezes for me and BTH for Christmas. I couldn’t resist the punniness of a Pheasant in a Fez! The background is several layers of spattering done over snowflake stencils cut using TTT’s Snowflake Seeds method.

Moose in Cattails, 2007
I painted this picture over a canvas that was pre-printed with lineart of fairies flying around among sunflowers. As I thought about what to paint, the fairies in sunflowers morphed into dragonflies in cattails. Then I decided that it needed a moose. By the time the moose was done, I realized that I didn’t have a brush delicate enough to paint appropriately scaled dragonflies, so I left them out. I’m still ridiculously well-pleased with how it turned out.

Catnap, 2011
My five year-old nephew had poured out enormous pools of yellow and two shades of blue, so I decided to use those to make a portrait of my sister’s marmalade tabby as he lay napping in a shaft of sunlight. With a dark green backround, the result is quite delighfully pop-art-ish.

In His Own World, 2009
At the time that I painted this portrait of BTH, I wasn’t sure whether the trees and sky represented the real world that he was ignoring by playing a game, or the game world that he was immersed in in his mind. I’m still not quite sure which it is, and I rather like that ambiguity of meaning.

~*~*~
So, Mists is due on 25 September? I predict, therefore, that Patch 5.0 will be on 4 September because the pre-patch is usually two or three weeks before the launch of the expansion proper and 11 September would be a TERRIBLE day for the Horde to begin its attack on Theramore. That gives me about a month to finish up the Theramore quests with the alt who has been living there ever since late Wrath….

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  1. on July 25, 2012 at 11:44 am Cymre

    Ooh, I love the arty stuff 🙂
    What a great family tradition. We’re not that arty though as a family 😛
    I think the cat is my fav 😀


    • on July 25, 2012 at 11:50 am kamaliaetalia

      😀 I’m sure your family has its own fun traditions!

      The moose was hanging on my kitchen wall until I did the cat. Will I be happy enough with my 2012 painting to put it up in place of the cat? I guess we’ll just have to wait and see 😛


  2. on July 26, 2012 at 9:11 am tomeoftheancient

    It’s hard to pick, I love the moose but it’s hard to resist a little stripey cat with cute pink ears!


    • on July 26, 2012 at 9:15 am kamaliaetalia

      ❤ I'm glad you like him, too!


  3. on July 26, 2012 at 7:15 pm Navimie

    What a brilliant tradition! And your whole family is arty? That’s so cool Kam 🙂 I like the image of BTH 🙂


    • on July 26, 2012 at 8:02 pm kamaliaetalia

      It was my Dad’s idea. And yes, we all are, to greater or lesser degrees.

      Thanks! 😀


  4. on December 28, 2012 at 10:30 am Christmas paintings 2012 « Kamalia et alia

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