ILLUSTRATED LIFE

Welcome to ILLUSTRATED LIFE and the art of Jeanette Jobson.

I am a visual artist living on the northeast coast of Newfoundland, printing fish and painting water. Mostly.

Friday, February 27, 2009

Starts and progressions


Perhaps I'm the odd one out, but in pretty much everything in life I have several things going on at once. I ready several books at once, altering titles each night. I make several pieces of jewelry of various kinds. When I knit, I have a complex piece and a simple piece to do. And when I draw or paint I have several pieces that I work on alternately.

Maddy WIP
9 x 12, coloured pencil


Tonight, its three pieces I'm working on. The portrait of my niece, and a rough start of a piece in which I've laid down basic colours and shapes in oils and will now work on building it. This is a friend's daughter who loves dancing, twirling around in her 'princess' dress - a pale green confection of organza with roses and all the pretty things little girls love.

The third piece is a seascape a shoreline including rocks and water, but its not fit for human consumption yet. I need to make the rocks look more like rocks than balls of putty. It too, is in oils.

2 comments:

Jennifer Rose said...

I usually have 3 pieces I am working on. Helps to break up any boredom that might happen with one piece to be able to spend time on another. I always have more then one book being read. usually one book where I don't have to really think when reading it (romance), and a fantasy or sci-fi book where sometimes I do have to really concentrate, or an interesting history book. Just depends on how fast I want to fall asleep :p

very nice start to the oil :) nice sense of movement already

Dors said...

Your work is inspiring.. I also silently follow you in Drawspace.