WIP Pink Day Lily Finished!

OK so here is what i am talking about it is 3:30 am, I was sound asleep and this lily was calling my name, finally I got out of bed and finished it.
I used more perm rose and perm + ultra blue for shadows. I used hansa yellow for center, used hansa and quin red + perm rose for the filament.
I hope it still looks good in the morning, as I finished it half asleep with no glasses on lol. Hope you all have a good nights sleep.

WIP Pink Day Lily Update 3 - Starting the Petals!

I started the petals, ultra blue and perm rose for shadows, worked on the stems some too (hookers, sap and sepia with a little transparent yellow here and there)
I am hoping to finish this one tonight or in the morning, I have another one on the go also. I will post my other one next.

WIP Pink Day Lily Update 2

Step 5: I have gone back into the background with some neutral darks (sap + sepia + hookers) to define some distant leaves and bus etc... softening the paint as I go. The background is good for now, I may have to adjust it a little once the flower is complete. I can't wait, it is now time to start working on the lily.


Step 4 : I went into the background with a small flat brush and lifted out some more highlights and details.

Best Obama Rap Video Yet!

These guys are pretty funny- Hey Jay-Z, 

why don't you do something along these lines, man?

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WIP Pink Day Lily -- help I am obsessed--

Added some more perm rose and tran yellow in spots. Then went over it with sap green. Added a little more of the tran yellow and green mixture to the center and went over the bud with more yellow.


layered some thalo green, perm rose and transparent yellow on the background. Then added some tran yellow with a little bamboo green in the center, Bamboo green + tran yell on the stems. I know you are thinking whats up with the pink! I use it allot when creating my dark backgrounds especially if there is going to be pink in the flower.



The start of a beautiful Pink Day Lily. Drawn out on Arches 140lb CP paper, with the center masked off.
I am also starting another lily (wine and yellow) I will post that one later. I have just been itching to paint, paint, paint. I did the roses and a new color chart since the weekend but it just does not seem to be enough. I can't sleep at night, I keep waking up wanting to paint. Does anyone else get like this?

I Love Color Charts!

I decided to do a new color chart of just my transparent and semitransparent colors. I Love doing color charts, mind you I love color. This one is 18 x 24 big enough to see when it is hanging on my studio wall. I find that making these charts really reinforces the mixing combos and what makes what. I will do a glazing color chart later. I am wondering if you make color charts, do you find them helpful,because I know I do.

Another Limo Liberal Out of the Ether

Mitch Albom of the Detroit Free Press -aside from being an authority in the sports world and accomplished author, screenwriter, playwrite, and musician- is about as left-of-center as one can be politically... or at least he was. For Mr Albom is yet another celebrity Obot who seems to have received a bit of a wake-up call upon the dawning realization that Obama's plan to spread-the-wealth does indeed include his money.

Judging by his column this week, Mitch is rethinking that November presidential vote, as yet another Pollyanna liberal realizes that Barack Obama misled the electorate as to the radical nature of his agenda... as well as to precisely who he and his Alinskyite class-warfare soldiers consider to be "rich".

All you other influential liberals and MSM "elites", you had your fun- and probably almost broke your arm patting yourself on the back when you got the Dear Leader elected by helping to convince the plebes he was some super-human-being that could help the country... rather than the arrogant, inexperienced Bolshevik thug that he actually is.

Now you are getting the taxes you deserve, as Barack Obama is going to bleed you dry. And you can forget writing off those local taxes on your overpriced eastcoast/leftcoast home mortgage... you'll be paying more on that, too. Plus here's the kicker: you'll be sending a lot of that money to people in red states... to people whom you can't stand.

New Yorkers, Californians, residents of the Northeast and the D.C. Corridor, politically fashionable media types- you elected Obama- so step-up and pay those absurd taxes without complaining. You wanted bigger government- try this on for size.

Those who live in places with more rational state tax structures will welcome you when you want to move there... well no, not really- LOL.

Not much to do now except head-out in the morning, jump in your Prius with the Hope-n-Change bumper-sticker on the back, and get to work... Barack Obama needs your money.

* Linked today at Riehl World View

Self-degaying, self-decaying?

So my latest therapy session was so critical, my shrink was very straight forward, put all his cards on the table and told me that he'll wait for an answer from me the next session about whether I want to be converted heterosexual or not!
I was expecting that so I sarcastically asked him about his "methods" to achieve the marvelous result that he and my parents are waiting for! He expectedly replied that now it's not the time to talk about the procedures and I've to decide first, so I acted innocent and asked him if I'll have to cut off my gay friendships? and again as expected he assured that that will happen at certain point of treatment! So I stopped at this point and changed the subject to religion, my mother, blah-blah, snore!
I laughed deep inside because he doesn't know that his technique with me became so obvious to me for the past few sessions, he thought that he's so sneaky that he finally put the noose around my neck and was about to kick the chair out from underneath me! And as if being gay is the saw in my fucked-up thigh/life but little did he know that that's ancient history; I'm the one with the power now and I'm so evolving past my parents' feelings and the whole therapy trauma!

I know exactly what I'm going to do, I'll go along with him and his stupid therapy so that I can get it out of my system and get it over with! I know I'll be walking in a battlefield loaded with tricky land mines and that I'll have to be very careful where I step or I could be blown to pieces, I know what I'll be doing is such a waste of time and effort, I know that many of you right now would totally say "God! Nordine, would you listen to yourself?!", I know that also you would think that I'm about to make my own bed and the time will come when I'll have to lie in it with all my grand forfeit, I know that I might very soon find my doppelgängers with the excessive pretending I'll be doing, but I also know that I can do it, I have to trust my powers, I've to remind myself every second that I always get what I want no matter how long I wait, so yes I CAN do it especially that I've a great point on my side; my mother HATES my shrink because she hates the fact that he can see directly through her and she denies this fact and believes that he treats her like she's stupid and ignorant, she believes that I outsmart him & I'm manipulating him and them and she also doesn't like that he's christian as she totally believes that religion is the main ingredient for my de-gaying.
Therefore, if anything in my plan went in the wrong path, god forbids, it will be so easy to toss my shrink away and replace with another one or maybe with no one else!

I'm only worried if self-degaying will be self-decaying? Will I get too involved in my plan that it might stop me from enjoying my life? Would I do it better if I've someone in my life who I'd love to live in his pants for many years? Or Do I need a huge support from my friends? But isn't codependency something that I shouldn't need in the first place to be able to be strong enough for my plan? Shall I keep hibernating my emotions? But I've a great grip of my life now and since you know that power is my ultimate aphrodisiac, I'm feeling very sexcited lately! So Do I need not to get totally drunk with power? How can I balance myself....? BLUKH!

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WIP Wild Roses Finished

Used some thalo green + ultra blue + sap green to darken the leaves some more. Quin gold for the brighter spots and center. Layered some more Quin Magenta to get the richness on the petals. Used Ultra Blue to send some of the leaves back.

Watercolor 5x7


Started to darken the background (washed it with Thalo green, then glazed the darkest parts with perm rose) Started filing in the petals with mixtures of Perm Rose, Ultra blue, Aliz Crim and Quin Magenta.

Back to Business Again WIP Wild Roses

OK back to painting now that Bloomin Artist is over. These are wild roses that I took a picture of in Hampton. Started the background with a mix of sap green and lemon yellow, and I masked off the center.

Bloomin Artist... What an Amazing Weekend!

Lutz building

Daisy from Hooper Studio`s garden

Black eyed Susans from beside the Legion on Main St

A house on 1016 Main Street

I had a fantastic time at Bloomin Artists this weekend, it is amazing how well organized and fantastic this is run. I thought I would have a hard time painting this weekend because you are on location and they were looking for 2 to 3 quick pieces per day from each artist. I normally paint very realistically, I knew that would not work for this event. I decided to use ink and watercolor for most of the pieces, allowing me to work quickly. Unfortunately I was so busy I forgot to take pictures of some of my completed works, but here are the ones I managed to get. With the ones I brought in ahead of time I submitted a total of 12 pieces, luckily all 12 were sold in the auction.

The Obamapologists

Obviously, with the MSM so in-the-tank for Team Obama, and having bet all their chips on blue some time ago- they will now be finding it difficult to extricate themselves from the role of knee-jerk apologists for a president who's popularity is in steep decline. 


Surely many have been caught by surprise by Obama's collapsing support, and will rapidly formulating a Plan B they didn't think they'd be needing for awhile... if ever. For people with a business to run, their blind support of the Dear Leader seems to have been a reckless gamble... perhaps fueled by liberal hubris and delusions of their own power.

But many of those who have painted themselves into this corner will not be able to reverse course, and their residual credibilty will evaporate. They are actually complicitous in covering-up Obama's shady past and dubious credentials, and in the process saddled us with the most radical and anti-American of presidents. 


These media figures -the Courics, the Gibsons, Williams', MSNBC- will likely go down with the USS Obamamania, while those who put a little more effort into seeking the actual truth -like ABC's Jake Tapper- will be recognized for fulfilling their duties as more principled journalists.

The entire American media scene might be shaken to the core, and in the wake a new landscape with the traditional MSM in smoldering little bits- and new media emerging as the most likely victors. 


Obvious exceptions would be Obama pumpers at Daily Kos, HuffPo, and other online toadies who will be recognized as the propaganda organs that they actually are. It will also be interesting to note just how many people will still be reading these rags when Americans wince at the mere mention of the name Obama- and George Soros' son Jonathan isn't putting them on the top of the Google Blog Search results any more.

There are supposedly free-thinking American citizens still be deep in the ether, cheerleading as Obama re-arranges the deck chairs on the Titanic. Many seem oblivious to the fact that this administration is far more focused on quickly and irreversibly inflicting a radical liberal agenda upon this country than any practical management of our actual priorities. Monotonous drones appear on political forums and blog comments, and continue to be accomplices with MSM- willing to put a substantial, sustained effort into creating excuses for Obama's habitual dishonesty, hidden past/agenda/asscociates... as well as serial incompetence and shocking ignorance for a man with degrees from Columbia and Harvard... one purported to be "the smartest president ever" (hat tip: American Thinker).

But these poeple who are enabling this Bolshevik con-artist are doing a terrible disservice to this country, as he is doing everything possible to bring us down. His otherwise inexplicable disregard for things the rest of us hold dear -while lying to our faces about his true intent- appears to be part of a plan to gain from an orchestrated crisis- per the Cloward-Piven strategy.

This is a man who hates America because he had a bad childhood and was raised by far-left freaks... and unsettlingly appears to be a clinical narcissist in the mold of Hitler, Stalin, Kim Jong Il, Idi Amin, and Pol Pot. Yet there are those who still never tire of telling us how great, kind, wise, and cool he is... while doing their level-best to keep a contrasting focus on the "disaster" of the Bush Administration... just so we all realize just how good we've got it now.

Back in reality, it has become apparent to most that Obama is not only completely unqualified and incompetent, but he's little more than a racist, arrogant, self-absorbed Chicago Machine hack. His divisive comments on the Gates arrest -and nomination of a La Raza member to the SCOTUS- shows you just how far he will be setting back race relations in the country... for decades.

Many wishful-thinking or guilt-tripped voters are finally waking up to all this... although conservatives have been warning them for over a year. And Obama's disowned Chicago allies -felons Blagojevich and Rezko- haven't even started talking yet. Yet still we have those unwilling to see, many of them perhaps liberal one-issue voters who see no home for them in the GOP... and/or are directly involved with the DNC.

I'm really not that interested in the Birthers' crusade- for purely pragmatic reasons, as Biden is even worse. And you can bet that Obama planned it that way, since narcissists need to be surrounded by obsequious sycophants to confirm their omnipotence.... as-well as provide political security as an upalatable alternative. 


But as the Obamapologists aggressively try to bury the birth-certificate issue, one has to wonder why they show such energetic concern... as with Sarah Palin, if she's so silly and irrelevant... why the obsession? Is the president again hiding something? He's already been proven to be a shameless liar... perhaps even a compulsive one. I'd like to see any such issue resolved in a comprehensive manner- I'm sure not going to take Obama's word for anything, after the 12 mos of his habitual dishonesty, his credibility is already non-existent.

And the numbers don't add up here: you have a guy that is supposedly so smart... yet he will spend over a million dollars to have a bunch of lawyers fight these kind of cases in court... rather than just cough-up 20 bucks and be done with it? And why seal all his records?

And the reality that they are attempting to obfuscate is that Barack Obama has not only scrapped myriad campaign promises, is not bipartisan, and is not post-racial... but that he has actually accomplished precious little in his first six months except spend trillion$ that we don't have, reach out to the scum of the earth only for them to spit in his "extended hand"... while creating new, deep divisions in this country financially, politically, and racially. All of this is in direct conflict with his past pledges and "soaring rhetoric", of course.

Why will some people defend Obama regardless of his failures and lack of moral clarity? Is this the remnants of the Totalist Cult mentality that many of us saw developing last summer? One of the most common traits of cult members is that they don't realize it's all a scam until it's too late. This is indeed a luxury that we can't afford in this country as a whole.

If these relentless Energizer-Bunny Obamapologists aren't paid by David Plouffe's "Organizing for America", they must be willingly ignorant, and/or they really need this one to work out... bad. That, or they're as naive as an 8-year-old Girl Scout. A lot of dopey wishful thinkers voted for Obama, a terribly irresponsible act without doing their DD on his past- especially since the MSM covered it all up... while only vetting the Republicans. 


But with America's admirable tendancy for self-correction, a lot of these voters are now realizing their mistake, or at least starting to ask the questions they should have last year. This fact is made clear by Obama's plummeting support among the independent voters.But why would anybody still making wall-to-wall excuses for this guy still at this point? The preponderance of evidence would make any thinking person re-evaluate their support of Obama, you would think... or at least adopt a more nuanced position of support.

Myopic, delusional, or DNC volunteers/posters paid by David Plouffe... what else could they possibly be thinking?

Obama in Crash-n-Burn Mode

Today's Rasmussen Report puts the approval poll differential number at negative eleven (-11%)... yet another all-time low for the incompetent post-turtle currently occupying 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.

And who's surprised, really? Just add 95% of US police officers -along with any thinking persons who know a racist when they see one- to last week's pitiful -8%... and presto -we have a record.

40% of Americans now STRONGLY disapprove of Barrack Obama's job performance... somebody better call DHS's Janet Napolitano QUICK- these right-wing extremists are multiplying like rabbits!

What's in store for the Dear Leader in next week's polls? It's hard to say of course, but I can't imagine too many people warming up to Barack's policies as he's cutting off military aid to Honduras (hat tip: Gateway Pundit) whilst he and his Bolshevik buds Chavez and Castro attempt to re-instate the unloved leftist thug Zalaya. Supporting non-violent pro-democracy protesters being shot in the streets of Tehran would have been "meddling", according to Obama... but restoring and propping up a deposed dictator in Honduras isn't?

Huh?

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