Wishing You All A Happy Saturday!

Headed into the art studio now...

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                                 (¸.•´ (¸.•´        Chaunine Joy

Learning to Use Watercolors With Miss Cleo

Concept sketch and final painting of Cleo the Goldfish from Pinocchio.

One of my favorite characters in Pinocchio is sweet little Cleo the goldfish swimming in her bowl in Geppetto's workshop. She is a forgotten Disney Princess if you ask me.
She was an easy choice when I was looking for something fun and colorful to paint and learn a little more about working with watercolor paints. I am still in the process of learning how to work with watercolor and how each new layer affects the layers I put down before. A few of the highlights that I add at the very end are white acrylic paint or white gesso.


Here you see the pen and ink outline I did of her before I started to add layers of color.  I started by first adding the soft pale yellows as a base to start building up layers of color and eventually end up with her beautiful, glowing, golden color.


Newman, true to form is as close as he can get to the artwork I am working on.  He would be sitting on it if I would let him get away with it. He is supervising me as I paint and thinking that Cleo would probably be pretty tasty.

 
Overall I'm really pleased with how this cute water-baby with her flirty eyelashes turned out.

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                                 (¸.•´ (¸.•´        Chaunine Joy

Singing Jack-O-Lantern - Haunted Mansion Holiday - Nightmare Before Christmas

One of the singing pummpkins from the Haunted Mansion
Nightmare Before Christmas Holiday at Disneyland.

When two of my favorite things, The Haunted Mansion and the Nightmare Before Christmas come together, it's a beautiful thing.
I'm working on my watercolor painting skills. In the past I've used watercolor pencils quit a bit which gives me a lot of control on where the color goes when I'm working on a piece,but I love the glow that you get when you work with watercolors in the more traditional sense.   

I started with this concept sketch of some of the singing jack-o-lanterns to get a feel for what I wanted to do. I just love the blues and whites of the snow in contrast with the orange and yellow glow of the pumpkins.  That color combination is one of my very favorite combinations to work with in acrylic.  I was excited to start experimenting with watercolors and see what they could do.

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¸¸¸.•*¨*•♫♪   They're busy building toys and absolutely no one's dead   ¸¸¸.•*¨*•♫♪

In the end I'm really happy with the way the colors came out and already onto my next piece of Cleo from Pinocchio.

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                                 (¸.•´ (¸.•´        Chaunine Joy

A Peek Into Chaunine Joy's Art Studio

A Pirate's Life For Me

"Ye come seekin' adventure and salty ol' pirates, eh? 
Sure ye come to the proper place.".... into the art studio we go.
They say that you are a product of your environment - explains a lot about me!

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                                 (¸.•´ (¸.•´        Chaunine Joy

Chaunine Joy Landau Hat Box Ghost Featured on Doombuggies

Chaunine Joy Landau's Hat Box Ghost haunts a page from an Edgar Allen Poe book.
Posted by DoomBuggies on Thursday, January 22, 2015

Great Grim Grinning Ghosts!!!  My Hatbox Ghost Portrait was featured on DoomBuggies Facebook page today! 

Edmund's Journey through Narnia

Creating this piece was a very special experience for me. The Chronicles of Narnia are the the first series of books that I read from beginning to end as a young reader and left a deep impression on me.  Later when I was a little older, I was fortunate enough to play the part of Lucy in a theatrical production of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe.  I am still dear friends with so many of the people that worked on that show with me.

One of which played the part of Edmund. I was blessed to be asked by him to create a painting for him of Edmund in Narnia. 

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                                 (¸.•´ (¸.•´        Chaunine Joy

Carving Pumpkins Make Grim Happy

Watercolor Painted on a page from Edgar Allan Poe's the Pit and the Pendulum
I love imagining that Grim carries his pumpkin around with him like a teddy bear.
"Love it, pet it, call it George"

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                                 (¸.•´ (¸.•´        Chaunine Joy