Painting Class #8: Are You My Husband?

Painting class was pretty uneventful today. I got a lot of work done and think I am close to being done. I started by avoiding trying to paint Danny's face and painted in a detailed bee flying in the top left area. (See detail at the bottom of this post.) I need to wait until next week for the bee to dry so I can paint in the fine details of it.


After the wee bitty bee was painted I knew I had no choice but to finally paint Danny's face. Here's the thing, painting someone you love (with all my heart I might add) is very difficult. Especially if its a face you know well, but have never painted before. I will be the first to admit, it does not look like Danny. The dark hair makes him look like Elvis. Again, once the hair dries, I will put in the gray next week. The eyes are not done either --- they are just a flat green right now. Okay, I guess that was a big fat lame disclaimer as to why I don't have the skills to paint the face of my own husband!




Well, I do plan on trying to paint him to look more like Danny next week.......

Painting Day #7

Painting day number 7 was terrific! I have been avoiding doing much detail work on my painting as I was in need of smaller brushes. I thought I had some but couldn't find them and have been tempted to go purchase more. BUT Danny found them in the storage room and I have brushes galore!! There are like 25 brushes of all shapes and sizes for just the small detail work I need them for. PRAISE GOD!!! Plus they were practically new!

During this class I finished up my portrait mostly concentrating on my eyes. I am very happy with the results. I also darkened the background and love the overall color/texture effect. In addition, I started filling in Danny's face. I am feeling pretty good about the direction of the painting now. I'm sure that will change next week.

The instructor Don will be making me another scarf --- a skinny one like I had hoped. He will be making a green one for St. Patrick's Day. Furthermore, he is on such a knitting frenzy, he will make a matching green scarf for Danny too! How cute!

In this post, I have included more than just a pic of the painting as a whole but also some of the detail.

(I love this detail. I wish this were a painting all by itself.)

Friday the 13th and Valentine's Day

What a full weekend we had! Michael headed to VA and Lauren shut herself in her room due to large amounts of AP U.S. History homework. Ahhhh......

Danny and I are not big Valentine's Day people but since we are newlyweds we embraced the 'holiday' appropriately and enthusiastically. In honor of Friday the 13th I made heart shaped brownies for Danny and Lauren. And yes, I even dusted them with powdered sugar.

That night Danny treated me to dinner at Bonefish Grill. If you have not been, I recommend highly. Its sorta comparable to a seafood P.F. Chang's. Its a chain but you can always count on it for a great meal. It was wayyyy yum and my hubby was smart enough to know that reservations on the 14th would be crazy.

On Saturday we had a wedding to go to at church for a young couple in our SS class. It is his first and her second. This was suppose to be 'low key' and casual and simple and for the purposes of just getting married. Their plans are to have a larger ceremony and reception in May. Anyway, congrats to Kozue and Keagan! The bride is Asian --- how could he go wrong???!

(Check out Danny's tie; it was my father's!)

Lauren got me dark chocolate for V day. But not just ANY dark chocolate. Its Lindt Chili dark chocolate and its FABULOUS! I'd been wanting to try it for a while and can't believe she was thoughtful enough to get it for me. The taste is dark chocolate but then this KICK. N I C E ! The best part was the note she attached with it that read: "To the woman who taught me to be a little sweet, a little spicey and a child of God. Happy Valentine's Day!" I feel so loved :)


Saturday afternoon Danny and I went to see the movie Defiance. It was a GREAT movie, and definitely worth checking out on video if you miss it in the theatres. If you like Holocaust history, this is one movie that is "uplifting" considering the subject matter. I don't know what it is, but even after working at the U.S. Holocaust Museum and knowing much more than I wanted to about this subject, when you haven't been around if for awhile, its still shocking to relearn the horror of those atrocities.

On a side note, when I was checking out the Defiance website, I went to the bottom of the site and clicked on the link "Resources" and no surprise was a blurb about the U.S. Holocaust Museum. The cool thing is they grabbed a graphic from the Holocaust site that I designed. I know, it seems dumb, but I immediately recognized it and knew my work. Its just kinda cool. Or perhaps I am so pathetic that I am living in my past gory. I mean glory.