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I'm opening my list again, for anyone who would like me to paint something for them. The list will open on Saturday 18th June at 12:00 noon BST (GMT+1) and remain open until Saturday 25th June at 12:00 noon BST. I will be at Glastonbury Festival then, working for Oxfam, and I won’t have any internet access. When I come home, I’ll then make a selection of paintings I’d like to paint from all the emails I receive between those two dates. Any that don’t make the cut, but I like anyway, will go onto a reserve list in case someone drops out. Don't email me before, I'll ignore it!
It’s going to be a bit different than last time, in that there are only 20 places available on my Oxfam painting list. This is so I don't get inundated with painting requests, and end up with a waiting list that took over 3 years to complete. I'm going to choose the paintings I do based on how much I like them.
So, how do you get on the list?
You email me at canvasandpaints@gmail.com with the following information:
• Label the subject heading “Oxfam painting”
• Your name and address.
• How you found out about my paintings.
• A link to at least one hi-res image of what you want me to paint, and if possible, a you tube link if it’s from a game (the picture to be in line with the "I won't paint anything violent, exploitative or offensive, and I get to decide that, not you." rule. If in doubt, pick another image.)
• A commitment from you to donate a minimum of £50 to Oxfam. I will send you a link to the Oxfam Virgin Money Giving website once I have decided to paint you a picture. As soon as I tell you I am ready to start your painting, you will donate the money.
• A commitment to make a payment into my Paypal account for the costs of canvas, postage and packing, before I start the painting for you. You will have a choice of postage costs, which as well as varying dependent on where you live, will depend on which postal service you opt for. We can talk about your options once I’ve chosen your painting.
What you will get from me:
• Once you have a place on the list, I will let you know when to expect your painting.
• I will paint your picture on either stretched canvas, or canvas board, depending on the size of the image I paint. Most paintings I do are on 40 cm x 50 cm stretched canvas, but that depends on the ratio of height to width of your source image - sometimes I adjust the painting, sometimes I use longer or narrower canvas.
• If you want a painting larger than 40cm x 50cm, postage and canvas costs will be significantly more, if you want a smaller painting, costs will be less, but I will always let you know costs before I start.
• I will post regular updates of your painting's progress on canvas and paints, and on Twitter, @lewiepsmummy (of course!) so you can see how it’s getting on.
• As soon as I have finished your painting, and it has thoroughly dried out, I will post it to you.
Postage costs will vary; I will wrap each canvas in polystyrene, bubble wrap and brown paper.
The reason I’m asking for payment up front is a) I can’t afford to have someone not pay me for the postage costs (thankfully, most people have) and b) I want to be sure people really do donate to Oxfam (thankfully, again, most people have). The reason I’ll be sending you the link to make payments to Oxfam is that they’ve not sent me the link yet, and once I have it, I will be able to see if you’ve made a donation before I start your picture.
Any questions, PM me here.
Another way to obtain a painting from me is through a paid commission - there's a page about that on canvas and paints.
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"The power of the weirdness compels me."
edit: Oh, I should probably read it.
If faith is just a silent tribute, mine is just a desperate act.
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I really enjoyed painting this - its blue, what can I say? On its way to vegeta_666, and he's already paid me, thank you!
Grrr, Imageshack is being very slow and refusing to load. I'll keep trying. Not happy with it!
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The whole thing:
The top half:
The bottom half:
OK, I have to tell you all, LewieP has just taught me BBC!!!!!!!!!! I did image 2 with help, image 3 with supervision, and image 1 all by my self!!!!!!!!! OK, I know its not a big deal to most of you, but I'm well chuffed with myself
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You'll know if you read stuff here that LewieP's Daddy has lost his job. We're doing OK financially, but something wonderful happened over the weekend - our best friends were going on an amazing holiday with two other friends, but one of the other couple is ill, and they've had to withdraw from the holiday, and have offered it to us, the only cost being flights. Its a 5* villa in Kancal, Turkey. My mum gave us holiday vouchers at Christmas, we didn't know when we'd be able to use them, as we knew about the job situation then. The vouchers almost cover the flight costs. We couldn't pay for the holiday, so I'm painting this picture as a thank you - our BF's friends are very well off, and any thank you gift we bought them they could buy a dozen, but they've not got one of my paintings. They love the place we're going to, so i've found an image to paint, and I'll be doing that over the next couple of weeks. I'll post it in here, just so you can see what I'm doing.
Normal service will be resumed after then.
Source image:
Pencil outline:
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Steam: abunchofdaftpunk | PSN: noautomobilesgo | Lastfm: sjchszeppelin |
And I'll donate some money to Oxfam and/or Child's Play quite soon.
Steam: abunchofdaftpunk | PSN: noautomobilesgo | Lastfm: sjchszeppelin |
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Here's the source image:
Here's the pencil outline:
Close-up left:
I forgot to take a close-up of the right hand side, I'll do that before I start painting it! Dozy me.
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"The power of the weirdness compels me."
For paintings in progress, check out canvas and paints
"The power of the weirdness compels me."
Also, major kudos on the interpretation of the Bioshock imagery. In particular I love the face of the Little Sister - it's got a nice embellished feel to it, without being overly cartoony. I don't know if any of that counts as actual art-lingo, but I like what I like.
Major thumbs up on the last few images, of course.
Here it is on my wall!
Steam: abunchofdaftpunk | PSN: noautomobilesgo | Lastfm: sjchszeppelin |
I'm at Glastonbury Festival now, complete with nasty tummy bug
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Anyway, I'm off to Turkey tomorrow afternoon, I'll be taking a painting with me, and if I can work out my friend's I-pad, I'll post an update.
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I've been painting the walls, they're still not white enough, so I'm going to paint them a bit more, then I'll start on the brickwork.
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Anyway, I've done some more on the Turkish Doors painting - I really want to get this one finished before i start on the new list.
Here's the wall finished, I think:
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Here's the background colour of the door and window started:
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I'm also trying to find an outfit for the Queen's garden party I', going to next Tuesday, and its difficult - sticking within my budget is always a challenge!
Ooo, and exciting news for us, LewieP's Daddy has a temporary job - a Rehousing worker, for 12 weeks!!!
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Bugger, I can't work out how to post a picture, you'll have to look on canvasandpaints.blogspot.com, sorry!
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"The power of the weirdness compels me."
The new pages, vanilla or real, are confusing me, I can't find the edit button, nor the things to click on to insert images, so thank you so much for doing it for me xxx
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This means I'll be starting painting the FF pencil outline very soon - I went to Buckingham Palace on Tuesday to have tea with the Queen (yes, really!!!!) and have been busy getting ready for that - hair cut, buying 5 complete outfits, 2 hats, shoes and 7 handbags - well, I don't do formal day wear, and I did want to get it right! I spent yesterday recovering, and then returning all the unworn clothes, shoes, hats ans handbags, good job they were all returnable!
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I'll do some more tomorrow, I think.
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Guild ~Wars - source image:
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Also, I need some suggestions of what else to paint for Child's Play - Willeth has agreed to take a couple of paintings for me, to save on the postage costs, so far, I've done a long painting of the 5 RB icons. Any ideas???
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MegaMan001: FF VII - started.
Andrew JD: Sonic
Malkor: Darkwing Duck
Willeth: Don't know yet
Jessie B: Guitaroo Man
PABosher: Don't know yet
SkidZilla: front cover of "Vice" magazine
Nova_C: Prince of Persia
Nathan C: Portal 2/Half Life 2
Nic R: my choice of 3
Kyler V: Zelda
Sirialis Maybe okami or Zelda
Junpei: Don't know yet
Radiation: Link or My Little Pony (for his daughter)
As you can tell, I only have 14 on this list, that's fine, cos it will take me 14 months to paint these, but if anyone else would like to get on the list, now's your chance!
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Here it is:
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I'm taking LewieP and McMonkey to Indietracks tomorrow, hopefully, I'll paint when I return home
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I think I'll do some more of FF VII tomorrow.
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FF7 is looking absolutely delightful. No worries about spending more time on your commissions over me, I absolutely understand.
Of course, this plays into my nefarious plot as we inch ever closer to my graduation when I will have an income again and will be able to throw money at you for more paintings.
I've done some more on the Guild Wars painting, I forgot to post it here, so here you are:
Sand dunes finished:
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I'm not too happy with the sand dunes in the right mid ground, I may re-do them.
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Anyway, I've done some more on the guild Wars painting - I've fixed the sand dunes I wasn't happy with, and have painted the dragon and the bones. Just Kitten and Snake left to paint.
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I'll probably finish this in the next couple of days.
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I'm aiming to finish Snake as well, then i can do some more of MegaMan001's painting as well.
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Next, I'm going to be flitting between MegaMan001's, my next commission, and maybe Journey for Child's Play.
Oh, and I've 4 bridesmaid dresses to alter for a friend. When I say alter, I really mean completely take apart and resew, as whoever made them made them all too big ...
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I painted Aerith's boots in exactly as they appeared on the source image, but they looked dreadful - far too clunky, so I'm going to paint them realistically instead. I'm very tired today, so I'm probably not going to paint today, I'm just going to rest and catch up with CSI instead.
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"The power of the weirdness compels me."