panel 5 Octupus complete

the above photo is the varnished panel.

Well it was a very fishy day yesterday and I worked on all my sea creatures and net with fun strokes of color added to Octie , I feel he needs a name...what do you think T.R. look at him and see what you can come up with...LOL.

This is panel 5, things are going to get interesting now with panel 6.

As I mentioned before the mural has turned out to be longer then we originally thought so I have had to re sketch and make fit again .

After I am done, I hope to be able to join all photos together and get an idea of how she will look complete and together. This is a fun project .

panel 5 beginning Octopus

What a wonderful!!day....the weather outside is frightful!!!no kidding...actually I seldom complain about the cold but the wind today was fierce so I pretty well locked myself in my Gallery and worked on the Octopus panel 5.
Tomorrow I will add many more strokes, loving his colors but more is needed , not sure where I will go with it. Friday also will be a fishy day.
I wanted to share with you this evening rather then write in the AM. Chuck is at a meeting and I have been sitting and looking at today's work. So decided why not now instead.
Chuck took this shot of me below this AM when I was just getting started.

My thought is that the Octopus is hauling on the net angry that fish are caught in it , as he glares down at the diver finding the treasure he has been protecting all these many years.

Well this Octopus is tired and I believe there is something in the oven with my name on it..it is fish...LOL ....

check back :-)

Panel 4, Ships Mast Done

Slow getting started this AM..not to worry..big day ahead. Weather here leaves much to be desired and I refuse to go out into it..I say not!!!had enough...so I will be in all day painting. Chuck wants biscuits made..Hmmmmmm...we will see. He has a meeting this evening so I have the evening to spend by myself painting.

Here we have the Ships mast, complete and will be set aside shortly to make room for panel 5...yes 5 of 10, coming along nicely. Things will get interesting soon, I will say again stay tuned for after this one, things will change somewhat..you will see.

off I go...not so wordy this AM..... :-)

The house for sale next door to us..

I am waiting for paint to dry, and dare not sit in the same room with the Finished ship mast mural piece in case I keep adding to it and then will never get to varnish it, it is the kind of thing which could go on forever .... so I must as I say" step away from the mural"

So..I thought I would introduce you to the house next door to us which is for sale. No money comes my way if this House sells, but we are lovely neighbors and would like to see the house to sell to like wise. It is selling for $78,500 and is a sister house to our house and the house on the other side of us. All three built by shipbuilders. Our house use to have a veranda, I would so Love to still have it but no , not the case ,it was taken off way before we moved in. But this red house has the veranda still there as you can see ,also it has two out buildings, one a single story garage and the other being the wonderful two story shed where we have a summer guest room downstairs in ours , this out building is bigger then the one on our property but the same style...which is so cute.

This place would make someone a wonderful summer home or full time with a guest cottage out back ,sailboat stored in the garage in winter. And...we would be happy to watch over the ole place in the winter for anyone who wanted to buy it for a summer get away. I know , but we so want to see it sold rather then be turned into a rental. One other plus is that you have our side with a solid 6 foot privacy fence and the back and other side of the property has a white picket fence. It really is a nice property and house for the price and only minutes from white sand beaches ,golf course ,surfing, yacht club ,you name it and a Gallery next door :-) We are here full time and I swear it is a quiet street with no rentals around us .

In the one photo you can see our green house on the right ,in the other photo you can see the red out building / guest house , we call ours the "Bunk house"on the left and the garage to your right.

The property beside the red house is a vacant corner lot . When I was a child I remember there being a very large delicious looking garden there in that vacant lot.

The property is being sold by realestate@annthompsonrealty.com Rachel Dexter 354-8227

This may seem odd for me to be writing about this home, but you can see our fondness for the place. So go on in and have a look neighbor :-)

another day in the masts...

Good morning...slept like a baby last night..yippee!!!woke bright eyed and busy tailed!!!!

ready for a good days painting. I should be able to complete panel 4 today.

As my Dear friend Lynn asked ,do I have a dead line on this project, well lets say the elevator should be there and being installed as I type, the good news is that the mural will be able to be mounted after the elevator is installed,which will take a few weeks. We were not sure about this in the beginning...but the pressure is off now. But the way I work ,I never leave things until the last minute anyway, just me , you never know what will come up so I like to be prepared and ready. I don't rush, but I focus and put in a normal workday everyday,even with interruptions, I get a lot done daily. I am lucky to have help with the everyday house falling down around you stuff, that would be my Chuck as well he has all the panels ready for me to sketch on by the time the finished one is complete and put aside. I have always worked like this, never leaving things until the last minute. I think I would rather relax on the finished end instead of sitting and doing something else and thinking about what needs to be done.

I am and always have been a work bee,ask my body,she will tell you .

Today My fish need detail and I want to do a lot more on the masts etc. I love old wood and I love to paint on it or paint it to look like such. Detail...detail...detail...

You know the old saying? "how do you eat an Elephant?" one bite at a time...and that is just what I am doing here.

Now if I had to work on this on site it would be a different matter, way slower indeed with travel, setting up ,cleaning up etc. right now my Gallery is "Mural room" all I have to do is clean brushes ,close paint and turn off the light. As soon as I hit the bottom step in the AM, I turn the lights on ,sit here at the computer with a cup of "Joe" and then off I go. Which is what I am about to do right now.

I hope all who are watching this grow with me are enjoying what they are seeing and I hope you will stay with me throughout the progression. If you get a chance ,let me know what you think. I would Love to hear from you . And remember if you would like to see the finished mural complete and mounted it will be in the Mariner King Inn Cranberry addition ,11 King Street Lunenburg, N.S.

So off I go for today.

Ships mast panel 4 begun

Another day and still in paint. Yesterday was a great day with the beginning of the ships mast.

It is blocked in and ready for detail today.

Not much to say about this panel ,you can see where all the work will be, right now it really looks like a Ghost Ship....that will change, keep posted.

Yesterday while painting, I had a feeling I was being watched,when I looked around there were all my needle felt dogs looking at me...I put them all up in the window, since I took over the Gallery for painting and kind of forgot about them. I like them there, talk about well behaved pets. Check out the above picture.

For Christmas I gave my friend a felted dog, her dog "Laura" who we puppy sit on a regular basis, Laura is like our adopted daughter, she is always here while her Mom flies all over the World on business. I call my felt pets "pocket pets" because you can simply put them in your pocket or suitcase and take them with you where ever you go ,not to worry about pee breaks or feeding but they are with you always. Well she does take her felted Laura with her when she flies. So sweet indeed. I do commissions of people's special pets , and yes I do cats as well as all animals.

panel 3 complete "shipwreak"

Good Morning, first thing I want to say, I noticed in my blogs the blog clock shows the time to be something like 4:45 AM or something like that !!!it is wrong, for instance the time right now is 7:10 AM. I will see to fixing that. I know I work hard and at my age if you get my drift ladies out there reading this, I at times toss and turn as I did last night, but I never rise at that hour , I make sure I stay in bed driving poor Chuck crazy, how you men sleep or go back to sleep after putting up with someone like me in the room ,let alone in the same bed....shoes for a "King size Bed" oh yes....

Bless him is all I can say. Tonight, I am promising myself to stay up until at least 9 PM so I will have a chance of sleeping, yes that late!!! of course my mind is busy these days as you can see. I am writing to tell you about the finished Panel 3 not to complain about tossing and turning.,so here goes she is done , the shipwreck finished .Remember I had 10 panels to do, 7 more to go. Yesterday ,Sunday was a very relaxed day for me, no company , no cooking, either of us. We have a little Sunday out of the home job we have been doing for a local company for almost 20 years now and we still hobble our tired old bodies there every Sunday morning ,yesterday bringing me home from there excited to bring my ship wreak to rest you might say. There was really only close up detail work and fish, then varnishing the piece. So late afternoon was mine to share with Chuck and do nothing, I hoped for a bit of mindless TV...BUT!!! sorry to all you sports fans out there..... Olympics!!!!! please I am a proud red blooded Canadian female who use to Curl ,Kayak, and cross Country ski..even snow shoes...no wonder I can't walk today.... ...there is nothing else on TV these past days..and when an ole girl like me needs to relax and not fall asleep I need an easy mindless movie. Well we managed to make it till 8:15, way too early for me, as proof from what I mentioned above, so I may end up painting more in the evenings as well. I try not to, We worry I will burn myself out, but I don't think so, for painting is what I love to do, so ...Nah!!!!

We put the shipwreck aside with the other finished pieces before we went to bed and now panel 4 is on the pew/easel and I got a chance to do a light sketch ready for today. As well I had to redo the original last sketch on paper. I had to work out some things which had to be changed a bit because of the extra length. All worked out well and when it comes time to sketch it on the panel I then will know for sure.

So sleepy head Chuck just woke, all bright eyed and bushy tailed so I guess I didn't bother him too badly with my tossing all night...he just said"No you didn't" :-) "men" lucky devil's!!!!

I will leave you for today and will hopefully have a great day of painting.

Come on back and see whats next.