I'm back and almost as good as new! I finally managed to get a brush in my hand today and keep it there and it feels so good! As always, Nature gifted me with a treasure on my recent walk outside. I found this cute little feather while I was strolling around about dusk. It was the first time I'd been out of...

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Or in my case, getting blindsided by it. My apologies for not being around this week and for the lack of posts. I have been savagely attacked by either a severe case of the stomach flu or food poisoning, though I fail to see much difference. I am not yet feeling like myself, but maybe by tomorrow, I'll be back to painting and...

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. . . . to be an artist! I've lost count of the times I've drawn and redrawn Miss Sammy Jo. Here is the next to the last version I am now working on. I am working from a refined sketch of this sketch tonight. I have changed the context of the main image and have updated her to know fit within this new...

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Thank you for all of your comments in the prior post on the little girl. You all did a great job and gave me much to think about. Once again, I'm asking you to take a look at this little girl, Sammy Jo, and tell me what you think. Nitpick! I am getting closer to what I want to put into the final...

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I'm busy painting mistakes as fast as I can and I'm getting better with every one! At the moment I don't really have anything to share art wise. Perhaps tomorrow. What prompted this post was a recent (yesterday) conversation with someone who asked, "Does it bother you to post your mistakes on your blog?" To which my immediate response was "Nope! Means I'm...

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This little girl is "manufactured" so to say. In other words, she doesn't exist except in my imagination and I need your help - I need you to look her over and tell me if she looks like a little girl you would see on the beach or if there is something "off" about her. In the sketch above, these are both the...

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Here it is the end of the day on Monday and I still don't have any art to post! I've been fighting it out with a competition painting as I write this and at the moment, I'm not winning. Don't you hate that? When a painting gets the best of you? Arrrgh! Which means I'll probably have to start over. Sigh. That's not...

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I hope everyone has had or is having a fabulous weekend! I am seriously considering taking an online art class this summer. There seems to be quite a few classes out there and I'm hoping to hear from some folks with hands-on experience as to what the classes are or were like. So, I am reaching out to everyone in the blogsphere for...

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Strangers Among Us?Detail from Original Watercolor Painting by Laure Ferlita, © 2009 All RIghts ReservedThis painting has been ever so patiently sitting in my studio for nearly 8 months waiting for me to finish it! It is nearly unheard of for me to go back to a painting once I've abandoned it. It just doesn't usually work out well. For one thing, being the goofus that...

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Mother Nature stepped in and turned the lights out for over an hour. It's still storming and with the storms is coming much needed rain. This isn't a complaint so much as an explanation. Now that the power is back up, I've tried relinking to my documents for the post I was working on and I've got a corrupted file somewhere. Think it's time...

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Strangers Among Us© Laure Ferlita2009 All Rights ReservedThe image above is a portion of a larger painting I've been working on that may turn out to be a competition painting. It is not complete (as I hope you can tell). The white pumpkin still needs a lot of work and the shadows still need to be painted in. There is a companion piece...

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Here is the last portrait of Little Miss Priss. I think this one turned out better - in some ways - than the one below. I also like parts of the other one better. You just never know how these things are going to turn out. Am I overjoyed with either one? Ummm, no, but you knew that. I can (and will) do...

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Or maybe "How NOT to Paint A Baby's Portrait" would have been better! There are so many things that did not go right in this that there are too many to list. I'm going to have to paint her again since I've made such a mess. And I am so glad her mother will never see this. Gaaaaaa! ...

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Here is Little Miss Priss. This is the baby portrait that I started a few days back BEFORE I was waylaid by the Twilight Zone and a snake. I probably shouldn't be showing this portrait at this stage as she's really ugly with no eyelashes and hair. A lot of this is direct painting and is not quite right as I have some...

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Which one of you nominated my life for an episode of The Twilight Zone and forgot to tell me I'd won?!! It seemed like an ordinary day to begin with . . . . did my time on the Beast (exercise equipment), went to take a shower and there on the floor of the shower is a snake. In. My. Shower. Luckily, he...

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. . . . and sometimes it doesn't! I started a portrait of a baby tonight as my daily practice. It was a bad choice and I knew it before I ever made the first pencil mark, let alone brush stroke, but if I don't get out of those comfort zones . . . . I've been running around ALL day, which is rare...

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Blueberries in my Nature Sketchbook© Laure Ferlita, All Rights ReservedIn my artistic life, serendipity has a lot of presence. What do I mean? I mean I'm open to allowing things to happen that aren't planned for or even expected. Saturday, Chris and I went to lunch and then headed over to another part of town to check out an art show. On our...

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Broken Bird Egg ShellNature SketchbookNature almost always hands me a treasure if I have my eyes open when I am outside. And some of Nature's lessons are hard. Spring is the time of new nests, and courting, and nestlings. But sometimes, there's a dark note that we don't often see. When my husband and I were outside this evening, we came across this...

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Wren in Watercolor • Nature Sketchbookby Laure Ferlita • © 2009 All Rights ReservedAnother month gone! April was a particularly good month for me and May is shaping up to be great as well! I do love progress and I've seen quite a bit in the last month to six weeks. For some reason, I go on a walkabout and forget to use my day...

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Yippee Skippee! It is my lucky day as the lovely Ms. Susie of 1st Floor Flat has graced me with the Kreativ Blogger award! Susie has three wonderful blogs, and you'll find a really cool giveaway on one of them of a set of stamps that Susie has created! All you need to do is leave her a comment to enter and win!The...

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