My Violin and Piano painting

Here is a painting I completed recently. It is of my violin and piano and painted entirely from life. I set up in the lounge with palette and easel and worked on it every day for a week. The violin is one I was given on my 18th birthday full of enthusiasm to learn, but as painting has taken over I have had to drop many things in order to give that priority. Still, no excuse really, I should practice sometime! 

But I do play the piano every day. The music in the painting is Chopin's nocturne no.2, one of my favorite pieces at the moment. Though you would find it hard to tell from my loose rendering of the notes!

Music Piece 16":x20"

Here are a few photos taken during the process. Forgive the bad quality of the images; taken with my phone.

Yes I have two pianos! Lucky girl, though the one I'm painting is atrociously out  of tune.

I loved painting the piano keys, so much fun figuring out how to bring them to life with as few strokes as possible.

Too Many things I Wish To Do...

  For all my natural lack of motivation I have always been one of those people who think if you want to do it than do it, for where there is a will there is a way. This is one of the reasons I began to play the piano again, and learn to play the violin, and teach my horse useless tricks like Spanish walk and rearing, and write 25,000 words last June, and think I can do all the things I would love to do, and then come up against an unrelenting wall called time. I wish there were more hours in the day or more days in a week, then I would take the violin more seriously and have lessons, and spend more hours in Deliberate Practice. And I would learn to dance, and learn a different language, and travel, things I have always wished very badly to do. But time is something you can't reason with and the only way I can ignore him is by dreaming.

Taken by my brother at Peter_NZL

 
  Would you call me an over achiever, or a want-to-be-over-achiever? Well whatever it is I wish I were not, I wish art was the only think I want to do with my life, then I could be so much more focused and produce much more and better work. But never minded, I only complain like this because I have nothing else to complain of, my life is pretty blessed really, I just sometimes need a kick in the head to make me realize it! Anyway, now I've touched on it, let's carry on dreaming...

  This is my dream home, I shall live somewhere much like this one day. Big leafy trees, old, old, buildings, avenues, stone walls, chimneys, dappled sunlight, garden seats, vast green park grounds and beautiful horses in the fields.

Versatile Blogger Award

Thank you, Faith, for awarding me the Versatile Blogger Award!!

I am much honored. And now I would like to pass on the award to five fellow bloggers.

Rachel from The Inkpen Aurtheress: My very talented writer friend from the other side of the world.

The watercolourist over at Adventure with Colours: Who produces beautiful works of art to feast your eyes on!

Colette from Wildlife and Pet Portraits: Always a new post about her latest stunning and realistic portrait.

And another writer Abigail from Scribbles and Inkstains: If you love reading good writing, this is for you!!

And finally Gurney Journey: Who posts a regular and interesting variety around the subject of illustration.

Congratulations everybody!

If you have won the award see rules below:

First copy the award and put it on your blog.
Award five bloggers
Tell seven random things about yourself!

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Well now for that last bit:

No 1. If I look out my window I can see a tree full of pears

No 2. I play the violin

No 3. I am one of six children

No 4. Faith is my middle name

No 5. I have 400+ books in my room

No 6. I love the rain and it's raining

No 7. I have seven pillows on my bed!

That wasn't to hard, now enjoy writing yours! =)