Hellooooo I'm Here....Honest!

Well I have been painting like the very devil hence why you haven't heard from me on here for a while!  I'm deeply engrossed in Tam's M3 course right now and as I said before I wanted a set of four Goddesses, one for each season, on canvas for my new dining room.  Well I had them all sketched ready and new exactly how I was gonna do them, what they would look like and so on.  But as usual things change, the ideas I had suddenly morphed into other stuff!  So right now I have completed Spring, she is very loosely done in the style of Klimt, and I do mean VERY loosely!  Probably the only thing Klimtish about her is her hair and the flowers in it!  Summer, on the other hand, has changed dramatically.  She started out as my dear blogland friend, Kelly, in a sarong on a beach.  Then I decided she was going to be in the style of Mucha so I changed the background.  However, our third project on M3 was mermaids in the style of Marc Chagall.  At first he did nothing for me whatsoever!  I watched the video and decided that Tam's approach made Chagall look a little more appealing.  Then the idea hit me like a steam train and I got REALLY excited!  Kelly suddenly leapt up off the beach dived into the blue waters and grew a tail!  Not only that she lured her darling hubby into the depths with her!  I sneaked a peak on Kelly's facebook page and found a photo of hubby and away I went!  Unfortunately poor hubby looks rather like a young Noel Edmonds in my picture, however I am quite pleased that I managed a man's face at all!  Fortunately Kelly says it's kinda cute even tho it doesn't really look like hubby.  Anyhow enough blurb, here is Summer Mermaid so far.  Still quite a long way to go with this one before it's finished, much depends on dear old Canada Post's delivery schedule as I am waiting for some lovely gold leaf and mica flakes to give it some magic.