Cemetery Hill on a Lazy Susan

My Lazy Susan is finished.

For the past couple of days I rushed home from work and sat down at my desk to paint. I didn't clean. Laundry is still in the hamper. I ate bread and snacks all week for I didn't go grocery shopping. Phone was left unanswered.
I just put music on and painted. I would love to come home to one of these houses. Alas, my home is an apartment in a large block of apartments but a girl can dream.

The trees are turning golden in the crisp cool air of fall. I added some tombstones around each house.

And all the houses got details going on. Wooden boards and window panes.

Some effective shadowing and a gate to the neighboring cemetery. They say those are the quietest of neighbors.

And bats are patrolling the sky in search of pesty little bugs.


I enjoyed painting it but I feel it took me way too long. If I want to do this to make a happier living and reduce my hours at the dayjob I really really need to speed things up.

It is a shame that there are only 24 hours in a day. From those 24 hours most of it is spend on sleeping and work. But I pledge, I vow that by this time next year I will work less hours at my day job and more hours in my livingroom studio. I just have to.

And now it is Saturday. Blissful Saturday. I have so many things lined up to do.... but that is for my next post.

Wishing you a wonderful weekend. Be joyful in whatever you do :)

I´m sure I was an...

...architect in a previous life. Like a good 140 years ago.

I just love to paint houses. Victorian houses. I only paint the ones I would like to live in. Oh, if only I could...

The Lazy Susan I started a few days ago is coming along nicely. The houses are build, touch need some touch ups. The landscaping has had it first layer. The trees are grown....
I love trees. I need trees. Trees are amazing. And the road is added too. We do need a road if we are gonna move in.

And as a reminder... here is how it started:

Still loads of work to be done. The bushes in the garden have to be added. The trees need more details, and no garden is finished unless it has atleast a handful of tombstones. We also need some bats and some fences. And last but not least .... a moon. A beautiful full moon.

Thank heaven it´s Sunday today. Not having to go to work and simply spent it with a brush in my hand makes me so very happy, I can´t tell you how joyful I am.

Time to make myself a nice cuppa tea. I think I´ll have coconut tea this time, gonna brew a large pot. Then it´s back to painting. Yeay !

Wishing you all a wonderday day, doing the things that you love.

My creative juices are flowing again.

Wow, I am feeling so very much alive. I'm seeing bright colors, and looking at people, buildings, cars etc when I cycle I see the light and shade of each thing I see. I am looking through painters eyes.

Nooooooo, I have not taking a happy pill.
No, I am not on drugs, nor did I have a drink.

Since participating in this E-course I am feeling so much wonderful energy of every "classmate", it's just bouncing of my screen. Every one of them is so damn talented, I feel very humble being apart of this amazing group.
And amazing enough, everytime I login to our private Facebook page the group seems to grow in numbers. Right now our group is 414 Flyers strong.
414 people who inspire me! From all over the world. This is an amzing experience!

Because of this I have started a new Halloween painting:

The first layer is up and also went in with some details:

Not by a long shot this is finished soon but I love it that I started it. I have had a creative block for so long, I was worried if it would ever come back.

And... because I can never work on 1 project alone I started on a new Lazy Susan as well:

I am feeling energized.

Lazy Susan

Last year I went to Ikea and purchased 10 Lazy Susan's with the idea to paint them with halloween images. I started with one and only worked on it in the beginning. Then other projects got my attention and the lazy susan was left in the cupboard ....forgotton and alone. Till in the first days of March of this year I told myself to finish the thing or get rid of it (basicly I needed more space in the projects area). So I did finish it and I want to show you the finished product form start to finish:

I first selected 5 of my favorite houses and put them together on a sheet to have the details with me while I painted.

Then I sanded the top of a lazy susan and gave it a background of warm yellow and orange. I then sketched the 5 houses with more or less the same distance between them.

Next in line was to add color to the houses. I never paint the houses the original color, I like to add a personal touch. And in my mind on this block (circle) the houses have these colors.

Then I added some roofs. Very essential item to have on a house. And I decided that they'd all have a low stone wall.

I then landscaped the gardens and forests behind the houses. Also the road and steps were added.

I then added a few more coats of paint to the houses and did some more layers of landscaping... added some rocks to the walls and gave it some real lawns and some trees that really stand out.

Some more detailing to the houses, and added some fences, some pumpkins, gravestones, bats and outside lights. And voila..... one painted Lazy Susan. I still need to give it a couple of protective coats of clear varnish but when that's done.... pass the ketchup please.