Gallery wall

Still missing Motte's portrait but it will take some time until I get this done. Don't have many photographs of him.

I'm not thrilled with the two small scale watercolors which I added recently.
They picture Linda and Opa.

Linda's shape is okay but the painting looks a little pale and powerless.

Opa... well, I did him twice and never got the proportions right. Not a big deal to try them again. They are very small and I can change them out in the frames easily.

If you look closely you'll see a tiny stick-figure-like birdie, in the little square frame above the cat.

This is a scribbling my friend did and I thought it was super cute, so I kept it for many years. Now it's between the others.

Wasn't easy to take a good photo from the paintings hanging in my corridor. Here is one showing a little more of the environment so you can see, they are all really very small.

Tilly

Not sure if I mentioned this before,

I'm creating a small gallery wall in my hallway. It will be from paintings and drawings of my deceased pets and perhaps I will add some photos too.

I had some problems to find a nice way to arrange the pictures on the wall because three of them already hung and it's quite difficult to add something without re-arranging everything completely new, which means pulling all (or most of) the nails and hammering new ones into the wall. I absolutely dislike unused nail holes in the wall!
But I think I got it now. Will show a photo when it's complete. Still three birds to go.

This is Tilly.

Although I liked all of my birds, he was probably the most special one to me.

He was such a kindly and gentle soul. I still miss him a lot. He always went away from any fight. Now, when I think about his personality I like to think that he might have been the reincarnation of a Buddhist ;-)


The above photo shows the water colour painting before I darkend Tilly and the background a bit. The light version surprisingly looks better on the screen but absolutely got lost on the wall beside the other paintings.
This is the end result! Don't you just love the ornate frame?!! It's from plastic but you really don't see it. I have a small mirror with nearly the same frame from wood!

I actually love a more loose style of painting. And in this technique I made the very first version of Tilly, seen below.
Wasn't so happy with it in the end so I started new for the more realistic version.
I have to practise loose style painting a lot and perhaps I never will like my results, while I absolutely love it when I see it from others.

Doesn't look all that bad on the screen though... that's what always happens...