Work In Progress Wednesday: "Rainbow Row"

"Rainbow Row" 17" x 35" work in progress watercolor by Carrie Waller 

Here are my work in progress pics for my newest painting.  I finally have a title, my Mom came up with Rainbow Row (she lives in Charleston) and I think it's perfect.  I loved all the titles that you guys sent in as well and plan on using some of those for future painting titles.

I have this painting finished but I'm not unveiling until Monday so until then you can see the work in progress sneak peeks:)

Oh and as far as my laundry list of crazy tasks to finish that I mentioned in last post, my second child just got sick so I'm scratching the yard sale.  Feels good to type that:)  I had a dream last night that I was almost finished packing for our move and I packed the wrong house:)

Carrie

Kugels

"Kugels" 6x6 original watercolor on 260lb Arches by Carrie Waller

Hi Everyone,

Here is my newest painting "Kugels" 6x6.  When Brian and I were living in Germany I started collecting kugesl.  Kugels is the German word for ball or sphere and are the ancestors to the traditional glass Christmas ornament.  They're blown, thick, glass with many colors.  The colors aren't painted but melted into the batch of molten glass.  They are beautiful and I absolutely love them. 

I like this painting because it can be out year long, it's abstract and colorful enough to not be classified as a Christmas painting.

I will have a Friday feature up this week.  Last week I was running behind and was going to post it when I got home from dropping kids off at school and running a few errands.  By that time I had heard the news from Connecticut, and it just had me reeling.  I pray for the families of the victims today and I pray for all those Mom's and Dad's that had to make a brave journey to school today to drop off their precious cargo.  I held it together until I saw the flag at half staff.  Christmas break can't get here soon enough.

Carrie

 

Thank You!

Hi Everyone,

I want to start out by telling you all a heart felt thank you for your messages, e-mails and fb comments about the loss of our sweet kitty.  It was very comforting! It was a bit of a rough weekend since this was the first experience with loss our little boys have experienced.  Sam our 3 year old was immediately sad but our 6 yr old Steven had a delayed reaction and was sobbing into the mid night hours.

Due to our emotional weekend I didn't get a whole lot of painting done.  I couldn't keep my mind on painting and opted to spend a family weekend.  I have progressed some but it feels like the painting that will never be done:)

I'm sharing with you my work in progress pics so far.

wip original watercolor on260lb Arches 18" x 24" by Carrie Waller

wip original watercolor on260lb Arches 18" x 24" by Carrie Waller

wip original watercolor on260lb Arches 18" x 24" by Carrie Waller

wip original watercolor on260lb Arches 18" x 24" by Carrie Waller

Have a great week everyone, see you on Wednesday:)

Carrie

Work In Progress Wednesday

6x8 original watercolor work in progress

Hi Everyone,

I'm sharing some more of my work in progress (wip).  I'm working on this for the fabulous Crystal Cook.  I hope you don't get too tired of this painting because I'm planning on doing a large version.  The subject is pretty magical and I'm just itching to paint it at a large scale. 

I'm blogging this to you at 2:32 a.m.  A pretty typical blogging time for me, because I gravitate to night owl status very easily.  I thought I would share with you a typical painting evening at the Waller casa.  You would think that if I were painting into the wee hours it would be pretty quiet around here, but that is not usually the case.  Tonight I let the munchkins stay up a little later to watch the Olympics, I mean that is pretty exciting stuff.  The only problem with this is that when my kids get over tired they just get wired, so it took us a few books to get calmed down which now puts me at 11:30.  Then I had a little fb, website and blog business to tend to which always takes longer than anticipated.  My oldest child is still awake at this point (a natural night owl also) and he decides to "check" on me and see why I'm up so late.  So I went back in the boys room and tucked him in again.  I finally make my way upstairs to paint, I have a pounding headache but I'm going to paint my way through the pain and get some brush to paper.  The dog starts barking, have to go down let him out of his kennel and outside.  Put him back in his kennel, back to painting.  I'm happily painting away and get a text, it's my husband, texting me from the bedroom to check on Sam (I can't hear the boys from my art area and I "forgot" the monitor which is in the bedroom.  Go downstairs, Sam fell out of bed, still asleep, just crying in his sleep.  Pick him up, rock him, back in bed.  Back upstairs to paint again.  At this point I'm ready to hang my brushes up so I photo my work in progress and trudge back downstairs to blog to my wonderful blogging friends.  As I'm writing this my cat his meowing/ crying her little heart out because she wants me to come to bed, so she can sleep on me.  Guess I better wrap it up before the dog hears the cat and starts barking and wakes the boys up.  It's a regular circus around here:)  It's a miracle I ever finish a painting:)

See you Friday, I'll have a brand new Friday Feature:)

Carrie