A sweet day together with my ChocoBots

Gary Moore is keeping me company while I’m painting today :) Since he couldn’t be here in person I have to settle for his music, which isn’t bad either ;)
Robin is helping the landlord with something outdoors…in other words, he’ll get really sick again within the next few days :p And it’s grey and boring weather.
That’s that.

I’m still painting cases today and I’ve outlined the case on the third bot as well (to the far right). Next thing to do is to actually paint them, get the shadows and highlights right and some sort of texture. The golden case already have a texture that I added the first time around, which I will keep and correct a bit. The other two have nothing but the basic color so far.

And I’m changing the bot in the middle. It looks a bit boring compared to the other two. The first bot is still not done, so that needs more details too.

Last I’ll do the overall atmosphere, shadows on the surface where they’re standing…and the canvas itself will be bigger. Need a bit more “air” around them.

More to come later (unless the fever grabs me and drags me to bed or something silly :p).

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ChocoBots & their cases

I’ve spent the past couple of hours painting for the first time in a few days. And I don’t mean a few brush strokes here and there without any plan, but some real changes that you can actually see :p

I was painting on bot number 1 (the one to the far left) when I realized that the cases looked like crap and that I had to do something about them. So that’s what I’ve done for the past hour or two. Instead of the flat metal cases I’m painting the more traditional paper cases that are used for candy, muffins and so on. I will however keep the metal finish on them and in the same colors as the bots are. So the copper bot will get a copper case, the silver bot a silver case and so on.

And it’s fiddly. Takes a lot of time to get it right and if the sketch is important overall it’s even more important for these kind of things. We all know what they look like and I’ve got a lot of cases like these in the kitchen cupboard since I usually make my own candy for Christmas.
Although, they are in plain paper and the highlights and shadows are not there until I put them there in the painting.

The first bot also had some more details added tonight. I’ve given it an eye and some “claws” that are holding onto the chocolate. More details to come on that bot.

But now it’s time to close Photoshop before I fall over :pp

More tomorrow :D

PS. The Lightbox, which is a plugin that makes bigger images open up with a transparent black background here, doesn’t work any more. I think it’s the store plugin that I added the other day that wrecked it. Sorry about that.

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My birthday plans :D

We’re still sicky-poo’s around here today. Not as bad as it was yesterday, but still very tired and without focus. Right now I’m waiting for Robin to bring back the car from his mom so we can go and do some shopping. There won’t be any big huge shopping this afternoon since neither of us have the energy for it, but the cupboards are getting empty. More necessary than anything.
And I need to buy a frame for the  painting of my grandson so I can get that sent off before his birthday.

The picture in this post is from Chatsworth House here in Derbyshire. We’re not that far away so we’ve been there a few times already. It’s a beautiful place that you can read more about if you click the link in this post.
Usually we take a trip to the Butterfly House outside Sheffield on my birthday, but this year I really want to pay a visit at Chatsworth again since they opened up rooms that’s been closed to the public earlier.

A part of the house is sealed off for the public since it is the home of the Duke and Duchess of Devonshire, but there’s plenty of rooms to walk through. Of course, if you’re not interested in history or architecture, it might not be for you.
Personally I love it since the beauty of it all does wonders to my soul. Not a lot of things can bring me more harmony than a beautiful room :)

Besides, the Duke and Duchess of Devonshire are very generous in the way they opened up their home to us regular people :) The garden is huge and it’s almost impossible not to bring a picnic if you pay a visit in the summer :D

We’ll see what happens in the end of this month and if we’ll make it there for a day or not. First of all everyone need to recover and stop this nonsense with fever, headache, cough, sore throats and runny noses :p Then we can decide :)

Now it’s time for me to get ready and try to look human, even if I don’t feel like it today :p

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A copy of his dad

I just had to snatch these photo’s from Heléne’s blog (Alexander’s mom). The first photo is my son, Peter…and the second photo is Alexander, Peter’s son and my grandson. Maybe this is why grandchildren are so close to us, because there’s always something about them that reminds us when we raised their parents. If that makes any sense at all?

Peter was a big bag of mischief when he was between 7 months and up to 4-5 years old. He had that kind of smile and a spark in his eyes that made me take a deep breath and wonder what he’d done this time..heh
Alexander’s got the same kind of smile (he’s digging music in the photo above), the eyes look pretty much the same as well :D
Although, it can change with age.
Peter is about 8-9 months old in the photo above, and I think the photo of Alexander is fairly new, so he’s a couple of months older. So around the same cute age :D

There’s been no painting today at all. No focus because of a achy head, so I’ve cleaned the kitchen :p Robin’s up and about right now, mainly because of Paracetamol I think, but he spent most part of the day in bed with fever and a headache. Think it’s bedtime soon for both of us. We managed to get to bed just after 11PM last night and it was so nice since I slept nothing the night before. And I didn’t get out of bed today until it was after 10 AM :p
I did need that sleep though :)

Hope your Monday was/is a good one :D

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ChocoBot I

I’m not working today since the flu managed to get a good hold on me. And the same goes for Robin. He’s actually doing worse than me, and while he’s in bed not having the energy to do anything, I’m cleaning the kitchen :pp
My brain doesn’t work very well, but the rest of me does…so I can’t just sit down…or lay down for that matter.

Anyway…this also means that painting is not an option right now. Might be able to focus enough during the upcoming weekend to finish the ChocoBots, but I don’t dare to promise anything. There’s a slight chance that I will end up flat out in bed in the end of this week.

What I’ve done so far since the last time I posted about this is what you see on the picture in this post. I’m working on Bot Nr I. And I’ve focused on the “body work” so to speak. Details will come a bit later. I haven’t done a thing about the case he’s standing in yet, so that’s why it looks a bit rough.

Well, now I’ve got some lunch to put together and then we’ll see if Robin wants some too. It’s soup so it’s easy to eat :)
Hope you’ve got a sunny and nice day :D

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