Pictures of paintings

First of all, I need to state that I love making mistakes. Rather, I love learning from mistakes. Unfortunately, my mistake happened on the 16x20 portrait of Sherlock on art board. Now the learning part: do not try new things on anything big. Also: never accept a gift of a Christmas tree if you have a recently regenerated recovering Time Lord in the apartment. I'm watching Doctor Who on Amazon in the background, you see.

ON to the promised work: A bit much for all at once, but there you are. I'll limit myself to one or two works per post for the most part. But here's some of my work!

Landscape, tentatively titled "Future Path", a Christmas gift to my father

I'm not sure how this works, if you want to look at it more closely I think you can blow it up.

Molly, E.& Sherlock, WIPs

Watson, WIP

Random Collie, from reference photo. Also WIP

An experimental WIP for a 3' long panorama seascape for my sister

Princess Fiona, sketched in and barely visable. Oh well.

Luvie, gridded and barely sketched...but it's a start! Oh and the reference photo

Princess Fiona, 8x10 sketch from photo

Zeke, my overly gridded finished version and the sketch of try number 2

Heidi, Sherlock, and Watson, all complete and tiny

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Ribbed-To-Fit Boot Socks

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Mindless Knits

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Callbox Blue Ideas

The lovely ladies over at ModeKnit Yarns (http://www.modeknityarn.com) gave me a discount on some of their wonderful yarn for pattern creation. I have the Call Box Blue in ModeWerk Fingering. Now I just need to figure out what to do with it!

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