Today's accomplishment

The finished apple in colored pencil.

Artist Trading Cards

The Hartford Art School is having an Artist Trading Card event planned by the alumni committee this saturday from 1 to 5 and I've been thinking of participating. I haven't officially registered yet, but I have been doing some pieces for it. I have four planned, but only two actually being executed at the moment. The pieces are 2.5x3.5. Tiny, which is awesome for me as I like to work small. The first piece is an attempted likeness of my sister from a photo I took last year. "So close and yet so far," to quote my sister. Obviously I didn't quite succeed. The second is an apple from life in colored pencil that I started today. It's off to a good start.

What are your thoughts?

What it has become...

Remember that blank canvas from months ago? I had painted it shades of blue a few months later and just last month and last week (I think), this sort of just emerged. My camera skills are seriously lacking, but that will get better with time. When I started this painting, I at first started painting with a small brush, then I remembered someone saying along the lines of, 'always paint with a bigger paint brush than initially intended.' I feel like I heard that from several sources, but I took that advice, and painting this was faster, easier and a lot more satisfying. It didn't feel so clumped together, but free and considerably more cloud-esque. It feels a little grey at the moment, but I intend to go back into it. What do you think?