And I have made a bit of jewelry,View them all @

Now that I have completed this commission, (with the patron approving)  I wanted to share what I have been working on, it was definitely out of my venue :)
Its called 'Hydrocity" You can see the progression. Enjoy!

Available here

Original Oil Painting Canvas Santorini Bougainvillea 24 x 30 by Rebecca Beal

Time passed

It has been some time since I have posted,  Life has changed for me.......
While caring for my dearest Friend, my momma....I had to leave painting for a while, I started making gemstone jewelry as it was easier to leave the creative zone as often as I needed too.

My dear momma has now passed on to "home" as she called it. I am back working with a hole that can't be filled right now, I think she took a piece of me with her. She has left me wonderful memories, laugh's and wise advice, thank you Momma!
Till we meet again........
Here are the creative endeavor's
I have been working on since we last talked.

 

My paintings can be found here:

Rebecca M. Beal

My Jewelry can be found here:

KnottedUp

please visit me at Knotted Up Jewelry
and also a new website here

Lakhovsky coil

I listened to the most interesting video yesterday from Project Camelot.
Kerry was interviewing Maria Wheatley speaking about the Lakhovsky coil. 
Not to much to be found on the net but I did find out you can make one with a #10 copper wire. This is normal house electrical wiring that is insulated.
I will not go into the explanations here, you can look it up if your interested. 

Today was a painting day, a bit unusual for me, my son's are opening up a gaming store and asked me to paint a dragon on the floor, it was a bit painful.....bending over all day.

So I just stopped and picked up the #10 just large enough to fit around my waist plus 2 inches overlap.  Got out to check my mail and knew it was going to be a hard night, left side, hip and knee were screaming at me. 
I though what the heck and put the Lakhovsky coil on. 
What a wonderful surprise, a couple moments later I felt the pain just melting away! I laughed, I cried! Unbelievable!

I am currently busy with so many commissions, I love it. This is Old Havana Night for a Preparatory School in Texas.

This is my concept, time to add some color,

My usual blocking in or layering color and then I move onto the oils

This time when I moved to the oils... I could not do my usual stone flooring because my female dancer was not showing up like I wanted her to....
I changed the stones, you can still see some of the senna showing through. This really softened up the painting, a dreamy night!
Click on any picture to see it larger.

Hope you enjoyed following along.
Next I am off the Santorini for a commission :)
Maybe...... then I can get back to more boats for the boating fans!