Up and around again ...

Hello me hearties =)

How are you all doing?

Been working a lot lately catching the deadline for that Nightwish days exhibition finishing my Scaretale painting ... And I made it! :D Already sent the scan over so it's gonna be a part of the show now x)) Here's the finished painting:

 

My sister says it's creepy but I think it's not creepy enough xD I've added glow-in-the-dark paint as an extra gag, so now the teeth, the eyes, the stars on the suspenders and the eyes of the little skulls on the clown as well as the bigger lights on the tent masts are glowing in the dark :D

I've also a lot of new ideas for further imaginaerum pics ... sketches flying around for Slow love slow, I want my tears back and Arabesque x) For the rest I have to see what my mind gives me.

But for now I'm packing my bags (nah ok more having a load of laundry out in the sun and waiting for it to dry .. the rest is already packed -.-) .. I'll be going to Ingolstadt again for 2 weeks watching over my bosses cats. I'm also planning on doing a lot of stuff in that time I'm up there such as visiting my "brothers" again with a friend I haven't seen for a very long time again now, wanna go to czech republic once more to walk through the Soos again ... For everything else I'm gonna see but I'm sure it's gonna be a litlte more relaxed than last time ... And this time I've got a better camera with me means there's gonna be amazing night photos of the refinery out there ^^ Can't wait to take them :D
Maybe I'm gonna make a video of that trip... we'll see. Keep your fingers crossed for me I'm gonna stay healthy this time because I'm strangely always getting sick when I'm there -.- (I blame it on the stuff that comes out of the refinery ...) But this time I'm armed with a lot of highly effective medicine to kill the germs. They're not gonna get me this time Ò_Ó

So .. yeah... I'm gonna keep waiting here now for my clothes to dry and wish you all a lovely day =) Cya! *vanishes* 

P.S.: Trying to get myself into vacation mood now and thought I let you be part of it :D And you'll probably also gonna hear from me if I can make it to catch the new Amberian Dawn album while I'm away. :)

It's coming back to life.

Hello me hearties :)

How are you all doing?
Another big sorry for being away so long, I had a few health problems in the last weeks and another ton of stuff around me ears ... but I guess slowly I'm getting back on track, kicking the a** of my muse which apparently seems to have gone on vacation down to the beaches where my mind is on vacation too these days ... I totally lost my spirit in some way ... But now I'm starting to get it back =)

First of all - since I've got the "Life and times of Scrooge" album lately I am obsessed with wanting to be able to draw those disney characters ... also because I would so love to do a disney style watercolor painting for one of the songs but it seems this is gonna stay a dream since I'm not really talented in that way -.- I'm not getting the proportions right at all... but see yourself:

Still I've sentenced myself to practise drawing that stuff now because it's something I always wanted to be able to do. I have that book here and I will not stop until I can draw proper McDucks xD 

As for the album ... I don't really wanna do a review for it since I've got a strong personal aversion against Mrs. Kurkela ....  I won't tell anything further. But the album itself gets 8 ouf 10 points from me, minus the 2 for that hypocritical singer. The rest is arranged very well (Who wonders about that anyway? That piece is done by a genius.) and I can partly literally smell the fresh air up in the Yukon. Really great piece. Yeah, just so much for that. And is it just me or do I partly hear a Vangelis influence out of that soundtrack?

The positive side of that new musical material is - besides wanting to be able to draw Disney stuff - that my inner eye begins to work again means I'm sketching a lot in the last days. Here's two pieces I put down yesterday. One for "A lifetime of adventure" and one raw idea for Amberian Dawn's "Guardian" ...

I chose to trash the first version I did for lifetime of adventure because it's crap ... or better - I can't paint mountains. Need a better solution so I begin anew. 

But for now I'm gonna call it quits and move my lazy a** upstairs to get some sleep ... gonna continue working tomorrow, need to finally do something again and catch up. 

Have a lovely sunday everyone and see ya next time! :)