Doodles...

Hubby was kind enough to get rid of some junk from my computer today so that gave me some free time to get a few pots washed and a little bit of ironing done.
I'm also working on a new series of paintings, it's almost a collaboration with our two year old daughter as her doodles/drawings have given me a lot of inspiration.
It's amazing what some of her scribblings resemble. There are fish, dogs, birds even one that looks like the devil, but then she was born on 06/06/06 so I'm not that surprised by the last one.
I've just done a few simple sketches in my sketchbook at the moment, still mulling over how to do the background, but I'm going to have a look at some landscape photos online to see if any catch my eye.
Once that's decided I'm all ready to paint, paint, paint!!!

Mixing Paint

What is it everytime I mix up paint I always have to recoat it a lot of times just to get it right and a nice solid block of colour...

I think I'm going to make the effort and surf the net to find the exact colours I am after.

I really wish though I could be one of those people that manage to mix the paint to the perfect hue and paint as much as they need to and it to stay the same colour and to not run out and have to mix some more and end up with a totally different colour, but if I was one of those people if I did run out I'd be able to mix it up perfectly the second, third or even fourth time around.

there's a little bit of jealousy towards the elite mixers but a lot more awe at their skills.