Never paint stripes...

Alright, I said it... For a week I have been painting Dominic's room.

We got the crazy idea from his comforter set. It has a matching border and lightswitch cover. So we took the border in and matched the colors at Home Depot with their cool paint computer!

We picked 3 shades of blue (although I argue with Amy that the lighter shade is more purple than blue, but she just ignores me.)

Amy and Cindy cleared out the room, and then took down these strips that covered over where the sheetrock panels were seperated. Amy then mudded them over and used this sheetrock paper stuff to cover it (which we ended up ripping down, cause it bubbled and looked bad) so we just sanded down the mud.

So then we marked the colors and taped out the darkest color. I then painted it, and we let it dry after a few hours and then went to tape up for the medium color. I biffed and went to reposition the paint and it ended up peeling the dark paint. I was pissed.

So I IM'd my good friend Kiki (named changed for security reasons--LOL), who used to paint as a job, and she told me what to do.

So I had to sand the walls, (they were pre-wallpapered panels that had this vinyl like wallpaper) so the KILZ would hold. Then we had to put on two coats of KILZ, then remark the rooms, then tape up for the dark.

So we painted the dark and waited a day for it to dry. IT COULD NOT BE TACKY. Kiki stressed that a lot.

So we then decided instead of doing all that work taping up for all the colors, we decided to have white stripes in between each color, so then I was able to paint the medium and light in one day as well.

So we let that dry, and then peeled off the tape. BUT, the paint bleed underneath (because the vinyl wallpaper stuff is textured), so the lines weren't clean enought for me. So Amy went with white and filled in the white lines.

So, after all that was dry and everything was peeled off and cleaned up, we put up the border.

And we are done! I hope you enjoy the photos.

More art......so suffer

I hate possession, BUT I LOVE MY WACOM! THANK YOU K!

Here is more art:

This one I did with Digital Watercolor. Very different to use, but I really like the texture and the "brush" look.

To make the spray "dots" I used a brush called "Salt".

I think it turned out pretty good,now I just need to learn detail....

I put a spell on you.

I am sure your thinking...."what is up with the title?"

Well, it happens to be the song I am listening to right now. Queen Latifah's Dana Owen album. Great songs.

Anyways, I thought I would put up some more artwork. I am getting a little bit better with the wacom tablet. The hard part now is the brushes in Painter IX. When I used to paint, I would just grab a brush that "looked" right. Not what it was made of, or its size.

Well, with painter, there is picture of the brush as well as what it does and what size it is. So I have to use a trial-and-error approach until I learn them all.

Mainly I have been using the Simple Round Wash and the Runny Water Bristle brush. Especially with this peice. I would paint with the Simple Round Wash and then go over it with the Runny Water Wash Bristle (with white) so that it would just use the color that is there and make it runny. And I used a bit of the Wet Sponge brush for the bushes.

Hope you like it.