Abstract 1

I wanted to put up an abstract that Sam and I had done, but I felt bad for not updating when I said I would be able, and I had this one on my computer. It's a small one I did by myself, but it's like how my brother and I work together.

It's rather small, and for right now I'm so sick of orientations for images not working that I'm not going to try with this sucker, though I might look at it later and cringe and I'll fix it. Though right now it's not bothering me. Though I should have been asleep two hours ago. Tomorrow morning I might just cry ;)

Well, it's beginning to feel a lot like fall here. We've had our first cool night. By cool I miean mid to lower seventies, possibly even upper sixties in the wee hours of the morning!! I didn't feel fall yesterday, but today I fought the urge to rush out an buy a pumpkin! Fall is my favorite season!!

Frog Person 2

Well, uploading it as PNG keeps the image in the correct orientation, though I don't see why it should have an effect. Thank you for the help!

This is my second frog person. I still love them! I doodle them all the time. I've got them everywhere. They are so creepy, and so neat! I can't wait to write out their whole sort of history or at least a specific story.

Anyway, once I get my car and get to all my other images, I'll post more. I hope to have my car in about two days... and two hundred dollars later. *cry* If it's not three tires its the brakes.

And if it's not the car it's me crushing my hand in the door of the cardboard crusher. Well, I had help with that, I'm not completely incopetent! I can type now (yay!) and the bruise looks better (yay!)

Then perhaps I'll get on schedule. I hope so, because I can't take many more accidents.

Frog Person

Frog Person

Ink and Watercolor on colored board

Tiny

I love my little frog people that I draw and paint. They are very macabre in their own little way. I've been working with developing a whole mythology surrounding them, and they are quite interesting.

For the most part, all people have to know about these creatures is that they don't matter well. They do not hold themselves together when they enter a world based in matter. They have to think about everything in so much detail, it is quite exhasting and most prefer to stay in their own little world. But a few are curious, and come out on occasion.

In one of my stories, Hermes would be considered a fairly well advanced frog person, though he looks nothing like a frog. I might post little excerpts as I post more of these creatures, or just little ideas about where these strange things come from, and what they want. Or don't want. They are complex for being so simple.

I think these things come about from my preoccupation with the sub atomic structure of the world and how it holds together.

I hope you enjoy my less realistic work!

New Schedule

Ah, it is good to be posting again. I have been working hard these last two months, doing art and writing and reading and learning all I can. And, of course, working. I should have posted updates, more regularly. I do not really have a good excuse besides being very lazy when it comes to my internet identity. I get into something, drop it for something new and shiny, and then come back to it later, completely revamp it, and then go to the next shiny thing. And I wanted everything to be only about art. But my interests are incredibly varied.

So I've decided doing one thing everyday is probably not the best idea for me. I need to do different things throughout the week, and post about them as well. I know this is an arts and craft blog, so I'll try to tie everything back to that. But this is a Separate Piece. It's something different. It's its own slice of art. There will be plenty of art and paintings to come. Perhaps articles and book reviews. I've also been working on more video for ustream. But I am also getting a degree in physics and learning another language and these things are going to affect what I blog about. There may be a few blogs where I talk about some new advance in science, and then about some color that was used in old paintings. I hope it will inspire me to blog more.

So on to the schedule and what you can expect:

1. A new painting once a week.

This is the only thing I am going to schedule out in advance. I know I have to keep content regular, and I know I won't post one a day (I've been doing good painting one, but not posting.) This will be my regular content. I will be posting either Sunday, Monday, or Tuesday, depending on which days I am working. I hope I can post mostly Sundays, but for some odd, strange reason, I mostly close the weekend and I am usually so tired I am about to fall over.


I've been working on two projects. With one project I've been doing large acrylic non-objective paintings with my brother. It's really fun and he's learning a lot. I kind of like what we come up with. The project I am doing for myself involves my frog people. I paint really, really odd and macabre frog people. They are small, tiny little things with strange figures. You'll just... have to see them. I can't do them justice. Simple little, creepy things.


2. Rants about books I am reading


This I am quite looking forward to! I love to read, and I usually have a (fairly strong) opinion of the book. I'll be doing mostly art books at first, but I have a fairly large library of over two thousand books and I'll read almost anything. After awhile, expect the unexpected!


I will probably post every other week or so. Or if I happen to read a spectacularly good or terrible book, I'll post whenever.


3. Updates on different, less art related projects.


Yes. Lots of fun projects, I have planned. I won't blog about these for awhile though.


4. Thoughts and ramblings


Surprisingly enough, I do have an opinion!


5. My takes on shows and music


Hey, it's art related.


6. More art stuff!


Yes, I have been not posting at all on anything, so of course I'll post more about what I should post to begin with!

Expect the first ghost when...

I mean, I will be working on digitizing a few paintings today, so look for new art as early as tonight or tomorrow, depending on how well I can do this on a computer without any good image program. The desktop needs replacing before I can use it again, and with going back to school, money is something I do not have.

Though my papaw is so excited about my going back to school in physics (his major) that he might show his appreciation monetarily. Probably not, but he is extremely excited.

Gonna go take some pictures now.

Ja!

Craft: Dressmakers Doll

Dressmakers Doll

Packing Tape and Garbage Bag

Hehehe! I had such fun with this little sucker. It looks so... weird! Mostly because it's me. I've been wanting to do this for a long while, I've had the tape and everything ready. So I have no idea why I decided to do it today. Besides my being off work and cleaning out my studio. That might have something to do with it.

Basically I cut head and armholes into a garbage bag and put it on, and wrapped myself (carefully!) with packing tape. A lot of packing tape. I really had no idea what I was doing, but it came out looking exactly like I wanted it to, though it almost looked like I was posing. I hope that doesn't mess with what I make clothing-wise.

I won't be doing a whole lot of clothes making right off the bat. So I feel kinda odd making that. But I wanted to make something. I was getting tired of cleaning and listening to my boyfriend studing Japanese.

I'm getting ready to update more, as I said in the last post, but I don't have everything together like I want. Until then I will update with small crafts that don't take awhile to do, or drawings or something. Not quite daily. Maybe I'll post pictures of how my studio is getting clean. Right now I'm trying to find out how to store all my fabric. I have so much I just have to find something to do with it. The sad thing is I have patterns and everything and I still haven't broken out and done much.

Painting comes first though. I might use some of the uglier pieces for canvas and stretch it and use the clear gesso that I have and see what happens. That might be fun. Well, I'm getting all my fabric up before I go to bed, so the only thing left is the tool box.

Then on to painting, and then, daily blog updates! And maybe I can work less and create more <3

Ja!

Regular Updates

Regular updates with art (that might be) worth seeing and some new articles (that will be) worth reading: all to start in a week and a half. First post will be a map up of a working schedule and what to expect, then everything after that will be content, posted regularly.

Hope you enjoy.

Vi

Rick's Angel

Guardian Angel

A coworker at work, Rick, wanted me to paint this for him, as it means a lot to him. So, after a bit of trial and error with the substrate, I got this painted. I'm actually really pleased with it. I worked fairly large, larger than a 16x20 for sure. I also did this in acrylics, something I'm still not used to working in. The only thing that needs to be done is I have to spray it and give it at least a satin finish, because the matte acrylic just looks way too chaulky for me.

My palette was fairly large (for me) and I had a white, a black, a warm red, a cool red, a warm blue, a cool blue, and of course yellow ocher. I used liquitex heavy body acrylic medium on shellacked vellum. Yes, odd, I know. Worked well, too. He asked for it on very thin paper, and nothing wouldn't wrinkle so I had to seal it. 

I was so sure I would have so many more problems with this than I did, I'm terribly pleased with the way it came out. I haven't done a master copy (can I refer to this as that? It was what I was thinking while I was painting it) in so long, and I didn't want to paint it exactly, and I didn't want to go way out on a limb. I think I hit a pretty good balance. I painted loosely, but everything still pulled together well. 

Hopefully, in about five or ten days, I'll have the other painting finished. And then I can move on with my life. Yes.

Ja!

New pictures soon

Just want to let everyone know I haven't completely disappeared. It's just been very, very hectic.

I'm going back to school, my friends just had a new baby, I've been helping another friend watch her baby, I'm working on two projects that I'm going to have finished soon (they are both turning out better than I thought!) and someone has been in contact with me doing some wax sculpting for them which I am really excited about. I've also been working on learning a new language and getting caught up to speed on physics and math. Not to mention I'm working full time and my cousin is going to move away soon. Poo. 

I promise I have been drawing everyday. I just haven't been posting. They are really small little ink drawings from life, though, nothing terribly informative for viewers. I like giving you all something with substance. Or a little note telling you I will soon. Like this. I've just been noticing a lot of new traffic to the site, and I don't want people to think I've completely given up. (Anyone seen my wand of motivation?)

I'm hoping I'll have one painting done tonight or tomorrow morning, and another in about five to ten days.  I've been kind of down for awhile, which is why I haven't been posting, but I think I've been mopey enough and I'm going to try to get back in the scheme of things. Posting book reviews, little art articles, and, of course, projects I'm working on. And just painting.

Drawing a Day - 9

Ah, it's the little things that keep me sane. Like doing these doodles of Justin when I have a spare couple of minutes. They're much more fun than working on the giant painting.

I did paint online yesterday, but I did not twitter. I am glad I got some of the painting done, however I did it. I got the book laid in, and one of the hands looks really good. I also played a bit with lace and her neck, but that's all going to get covered up. Next time I should have the hands, book and rose all done, and then I'll post a picture on the blog. 

I also started something yesterday, but completely trashed it. It's been awhile since I've done that. Not really so much for the bad painting (thought that didn't help my decision) but because it would not have worked. My client would like it to be sealed onto his car, and what I thought would work would have been a disaster. There is a reason we should all take chem! Yay for science! I forgot a couple little facts. Ah well. I'm preparing my substrate better tonight, and hopefully get the drawing done. I will not paint until my foundation is good. 

I hope to have this done before the weekend is over, and then work on the Adams image. 

If I can get these two things done, I think stress will be a lot lower. I'll twitter when I'm working online next time!

Ja

Drawing a Day - 6, 7, 8

So, I've been working on some large pieces for some people, and I have not done much that I could post. So I did these, and as I don't have my camera with me, I scanned these images and tried my best to save them in photoshop. I've really got to practice that, or just go get my camera.  Justin is good for posing a couple of minutes at a time, and I'm getting better at speed so he doesn't have to sit there and read so much.

The first one was hard because I had not done sketches from life in awhile. I've mostly been working from photographs and imagination and it took a minute for even that to pop off the page. And he looks so old and terrible. Perhaps that's just because that's how I was feeling while drawing. Sorry Justin!

The second one turned out pretty well. We were at Books-A-Million and Justin was reading my newest find, Tales from Outer Suburbia by Shaun Tan. Shaun Tan is an amazing artist, and his books are a wonderful mix of painting, writing and design. On his website http://www.shauntan.net/ I love his paintings. A couple remind me of Wayne Theibaud (in design, not so much subject, but there is that first landscape that gives me fits every time I see it! The color! The abstraction!) Go, read his books, visit his site. <3

In any event, the picture I did of Justin turned out better than I would have thought. His head was moving all over the place, looking at the illustrations, but I managed to get it down. At least he looked younger.

The last one isn't too bad. It's Justin's favorite and I slapped it together at the iHop. Over a fruit crepe and ice cream sunday. I liked his expression, but I'm still picking them all apart. I only posted because I know I've been neglecting my little blog here. I really need to clean up this sucker a bit.

In other news, I will probably be painting online later today. Still working on Mrs. Adams, but I've got something else I've got to work on as well. It won't be as interesting to watch, so I suppose I will spare you all. XD No use running everyone away. 

I am also going back to school in Physics. I think that will be fun, as it's something I've always been interested in. Oddly enough, more people are saying "What are you going to do with that?!" than they did with the art degree. I will never understand people. I am a bit nervous about it. I haven't looked at physics since highschool, apart from pop science books that, while fun to read, aren't exactly as informative as they should be. I'm going to be brushing up on my math as well. Ah! My Calculus! I have forsaken you and you are such a cruel mistress!!

I'm also working on something that will keep me from having to work at what I hate. Anyway, I'm not going to let so much time pass again before I post. And maybe next time it will be informative!

ja!