Summer so far...

Yesterday, I finally managed to get my Polaroiding in, poolside. Impossible PX70 Color Shade Cool film is the BEST. I hope you are having a happy, sunshiney summer so far! Swimming is my favorite thing to do in the world-besides Polaroiding, that is.

Summer is really flying by for us. Bee has been spending a lot of time with my parents. They found her a guitar teacher that makes house calls, which makes us all very happy. She is learning it so quickly, it's wild! I'm impressed with her new skills.

My creative urge has morphed into painting walls in the middle of the night. I have self-imposed insomnia. I need so many things for the new place-but the main things I need are curtains, rugs, and most of all a new sofa and a new coffee table. I want a new dining room set, but I will hold off and just paint the one I have for now. If I re-sign the lease in a year, I will tell the landlord I will only do so if they replace the hideous carpet and blinds.

Other than that, we have a very cozy little place that's shaping up slowly, but surely. 

Tuesday morning.

We enjoyed Regina Spektor during breakfast and beyond.

I don't understand this. haha

So happy to finish a roll.

Bee's watercolors as they are right now-she's in the middle of something.

Always wonder how things get piled-up...

I really need to recycle those empty Polaroid cartridges. 

Advertising...where shall I stick these?  I want to support the Impossible Project, it matters!  I already put one on my luggage...

Color palette + mixing experiments.

Golden fluid acrylics doodles.

From last portrait session with Bee.

Cleanliness is Godliness.

My mom's old pastels vs. my pastels.

Perfect mason Ball jars + high school coil clay jar.

Beloved dress form.

Left-handed embroidery by Bee.

Lovely threads.

Researching a professional medium format set-up.

Confusion...no, I don't need a Contax T3, I need a professional system for work-portraits and events-*sigh*

I got new paints, soooo happy!

I really have not been happy with my watercolor experience, so I finally broke down and bought a little starter set of Golden Fluid Acrylics. I already had been using Titan Buff, the metallics, and their mediums, but I had yet to drop cash down for the colors. I needed something with more vibrancy, something more substantial, yet capable of holding both opaque and transparent qualities. These are the answer to it all. I love these.

Golden Fluid Acrylics 1/2 fl. oz.,15mL in each mini-bottle.

Titan Buff is my favorite, and the metallics are also nice.  Fluid Matte Medium alleviates gloss.

I like having two water jars, one for warm colors rinsing, one for cool colors rinsing.

My source film still for a practice piece, Michelle Williams as Cindy in Blue Valentine.

Started with a rough sketch in blue, my favorite color.  

I never care to make a drawing exactly like the source photo, except for the mannerisms of the people.  I just adore Michelle Williams, she is absolutely brilliant, right? 

In-progress.  I don't know if I will complete this into a final drawing...I really wanted to just try these new paints.  I always like to end up using colored pencil for details.

I live at this table.