Hadara and the Sun King


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elusivetiger fixed my feng shui issue with my painting location (we're doing a lot of work to the house, which means things are constantly in flux; for the past few weeks I haven't liked the area I used to paint in). The result was that I was much happier and spent a lot longer working tonight than I expected. On to Hadara's robe with its finicky patterns!


Here's me painting the first layers over the frisket film.


And peeling it away... you can see how delicate it is. I was using the "extra tack" version of the film; I think in the future I might try the normal low tack, because this one stuck a little more than it needed to. Running the paper through the printer already abuses it a bit, and the film on top of that was just too much for the surface of the paper. I was basically pleased with the result, though I had to be more careful painting over the filmed areas than I think will be necessary with the lower tack film.


Where I stopped for the night. I painted the background of the patterns in, then put down the basecoat on her skin (I'm going to have such fun doing that warm toffee color!) and worked a little on the Sun King's robes before I gave up for the evening. You can see the book of patterns I was using propped up against the wall.

The scan's a little skewed, but it gives you a better look at the patterns at least:


Hadara's Robe of Stars

I have so much to do it's just falling right out of my head lately. But I think having this new painting place will help me immensely.


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I kindly got permission to post all five of the Balance Card paintings I finished recently.

Here's what they look like when I pull them for you:



And here are the last five I sent out:



A couple of you have asked about readings... I'm too swamped right now to do them. I'm hoping by March to get back to the One Card Draws, though, since I really enjoy doing them. I'll post for sure when I'm open for readings and paintings. *crossing fingers*

(Also for those of you who've been with me a while, I've changed the pricing structure. These paintings used to take me half an hour. Now they're averaging about three. Readings are still cheap (or free for the One Card Draw). Paintings are more expensive.)

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