Is this what every hot blooded woman wants to see?

Well, as promised, i stopped painting lovely ladies, and started work on a nice semi nude for all my friends to enjoy. lol

At first, I started playing with color- first i tried a touch of yellow with mint sheets, then green walls with a white towel  but i wasn't convinced it was right .......

 

Then i started to read a book my sister-in-law suggested to knock the socks off- and way and behold, i got my inspiration from Christian, and decided it had to be Grey, 50 shades, all the way.....

Ain't any of the playthings from behind the red door in this painting......

 Maybe the next one, once i finish reading the contract negotiations. lol

So What am i painting now??

After selling a painting right off my loungeroom wall, i set about replacing it with this;

 Then i started working on a painting (inspired by pino daeni's artwork)- women seated on a bed....
this piece i painted, to match my new bedspread- green with touches of pink....

Then i finally got sick of seeing beautiful women,  in paint,  on my canvas?
So all of a sudden my brushes took a new path.....

A few of the ladies at the last retreat suggested i try a bit of eye candy for them. 
So, by popular request- here's some new eye candy just for you!

Here's a sneak peak at my latest artwork....

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THE SURPRISE SALE

THERE IT WAS, SITTING QUIETLY IN THE CORNER DURING THE PARTY, AND IT WAS SOLD SHORTLY THEREAFTER.

We recently celebrated my husband's 50th birthday at our home, and invited around 100 of his nearest and dearest friends to see in this milestone.

We had a houseful of people, some who had never visited the house before, entered to enjoy the night. The food was fantastic, the slushie machine a major hit and the booze flowed freely all night.

For me, the most surprising part of the whole night, was my latest artwork piece, that had graced the walls for less than a week, caught a friend's eye.

After initially saying no, it wasn't for sale, i had a rethink after they contacted me after the party to see if i could paint a second painting exactly the same. i was so surprised, as i thought it was the drink talking for them, but low and behold, they WERE serious. They loved it and really wanted to purchase the original or get me to paint another for their home.

Rather than paint a repeat painting, the price was set for the original on the wall (at a discount, obviously, for a friend) and they returned on Australia Day to share a BBQ and they took the painting home with them, as they left.

Amazing, last thing i was expecting when hosting the party, was to sell my very first big artwork piece , and the best thing now is, i have a huge empty space on my wall, a brand new canvas on my easel and the world of possibilities has re-visited again.

HENRY ASENCIO HAS INSPIRED MY FIRST PROJECT FOR 2012

Another of my favourite artists is Henry Asencio. His completed artwork piece sometimes called 'untitled, woman in black dress' and other times called 'elegance'- is one of my favourite paintings, regardless of what it is called.

Whilst henry's painting features a vivid red background and a black dress, my version will be a little different, so it suits my loungeroom instead.

I LOVE the stance that his model had, so painting it with a view of hanging it in our loungeroom, i will be changing the color scheme.

With walls in a mustard color called "sandy beach"  in our room, and wanting it to keep this artwork piece similar to the other women in my loungeroom with red/burgandy textured dresses and motteled mustard color backgrounds, my artwork piece will look very different to henry's by the time i have finished.

here is the work on my 2012 project, so far....



after initial pencil draft, i added texture to the dress and hair



a three toned mustard color is added to the background.

A little detail added to the hair.

I have let the artwork piece sit for a little while in my studio and i think i still need to lighten the top and darken the lower portions, to give a real opposite feeling to the dark tones and highlights.

A few days later.......
On another day of my holidays, i set up my ipod on the speaker, with music blaring, i set to work on the dress and then the skin tones.

detail added to the dress, and you can see the old painting i am replacing here.

Here i am with my painting,
still being worked on.

the finished painting, waiting for it to dry
so i can hang it in the loungeroom

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DANCE THROUGH 2012, WITH MY ARTWORK CALENDAR

More copies available through Red Bubble Store.

A sample of January to June 2012 can be seen below.......



For those of you who haven't purchased your 2012 calendar, check out the link to my Red Bubble online store below- where you can purchase my Dance Inspired Artwork Calendar for a low $28 (plus postage and handling).

Have a year of my artwork delivered straight to your home.

Click here to enter Red Bubble online store:

http://www.redbubble.com/people/carolinemartin/calendars/7350815-dance-through-the-year?c=75312-calendars-from-28&p=calendar

2011 Celebrating a year of dance

2011 was a year full of dance. After attending performances of Tango Inferno earlier in the year and Swan Lake in mid December, i saw out the year inspired by music and dance.

Here are a few of my dance inspired artwork pieces;


Spanish Lady

 


Spanish dance



Rise to love (gifted to a relative)

 


The dying swan




Pretty in Pink (sold- Feb 2012)

 


Dance of Life





woman in red dress (sold)

 



Woman in red dress, dancing (sold)







Swan despair

 

Swan lake (donated to charity function)



The Dance of joy (donated to charity function)



Combining my two favourite pictures to create something new

male in blue, with pencil drawing of woman in blue

After finishing my male in blue artwork piece, i decided that i absolutely loved the blue paint splattered color theme in the background!

Wanting to then try out the next Asencio artwork piece, i decided to try out the same background for a matching female to don the walls in my newly finished family room at home.






So i made a start, graphing and pencilling in the woman on my canvas sheet.

original pencil drawing of woman in blue

Then i started to pull out the blue paints, and then the reds and yellows and a splatter of saphire too.

male in blue, framed, with partially completed woman in blue

Don't forget to come back to visit this blog to see how i throw some skin on and attack that figure hugging dress. If you add your email address to the top of this blog, you will receive a personal email with a link back here.
cheers
caroline

MY FIRST YOUTUBE VIDEO

Here's the link to my new youtube video- showcasing my figurative artwork

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tlg0tmS2CqY

featuring a fantastic look at some of my figurative artwork.

dymanic dancers, brilliant ballerinas and cosey couples feature in this moviemaker youtube video that i created to music myself.

feel free to view, share and leave a comment.

cheers caroline

SHOREHAM WAS A BLAST. OCTOBER 2011

semi nude reclining, in red, framed.

SHOREHAM OCTOBER 2011

Armed with a few henry asencio artwork pieces to inspire me, we headed down to shoreham.....

Well all 14 of us headed off to shoreham, most with scrapbooking supplies to keep them busy, whereas i packed up my brushes, paints and easels and with a handful of henry asencio paintings to inspire me, i headed off on camp.

check out this post to see my drafts, my finished artwork and the paintings completed by the few adventurous that picked up a brush for the first time.

I managed to finish off a handful of A3 size artwork pieces as well as finishing off the main artwork piece i wanted for my bedroom- the semi-nude reclining- my pencil draft can be seen here.

I started with my tried and tested flamenco style dancer....



Woman in Red dress, and Woman in red dress dancing.


then i commenced work on the main artwork piece once i was sufficiently limbered up....

And then on the last morning of the retreat, i worked on a fine looking young man with abs to kill. lol



Working on male in blue



I even found the time to let a few of the girls have a play with my paints, coaxing them nicely to be adventureous and they did extremely well ...

vicki with her flamenco dancer.

Sherryn with her aspendale sunset

Anne with her aspendale beach scene

Overall, the retreat was fantastic- plenty of wine, food galore, games played and so much crafting was done by all in attendance, and now the clock ticks down to the next retreat in March 2012.