step process for new painting day one

This weekend has been art packed basically…
I worked my shift yesterday in the gallery and during the first hour sold out of my magnets. So sorry anyone in the Enid area that wanted a magnet! They are out and I don’t think I can get another order in before Christmas. 25 magnets were purchased. LOL I thought I enough. : ) but hey I’m not complaining.
Next, I will taking a new batch of business cards into the gallery as well. I am out of those too!
There was an open house today from 2-4 in the mall gallery. I was not able to attend because of congestion.
I have four limited edition signed archival prints that I took in yesterday. They are framed and priced at only $25 each. One is 1/50. I will check tomorrow when I take more stuff in if that is still the case after the open house. I have priced them at $25 for the holiday gallery sale. Most of the prints have sold for $65 or more. So this is a bargain.
dat ta da!! and here is the exciting news for anyone in the area. I wasn’t planning on doing this, but I will be putting an original 11 x 14 inch acrylic painting on wrapped canvas ready to hang in the gallery in a few days. I have pictures of what I have finished so far. I will be pricing this at $50!!! yes you pay $50 plus Oklahoma tax, which tax in Enid is 8.35% on the dollar and it’s yours.

I did some research for bears that used to be in Oklahoma, and they are black and or brown bears. I’m going with a brown bear for this one…

First off I draw the complete picture on the canvas… they I love to start off with the skin color…

after painting on and off for two years now I have come up with four colors that I use in making skin… this has the start of my shading

next I decided I would make the hair black…which I found out the using a really dark gray actually works better than going full on black…

I have the basic under painting for the bear. I will be making him/her (I haven’t decided) a cinnamon colored bear. The girl is not finished either. There are several more steps left to finishing the painting. This is where I decided to stop for the night. I will be painting and documenting more tomorrow. If your interested in the painting, I would look for it in the gallery more than likely on Friday after 11 am because I need to get out of my morning classes before dropping it off in the gallery.