So sorry for the lack of updates over the past few days. I have been working my tail off to finish this painting, and to get everything in my house cleaned up before I leave for San Francisco, (I am updating from the airport waiting to board my plane!).
I am really happy with how this painting turned out. I didn’t get a chance to take a nice photo of it, I will have to do that next week when I return to San Diego.
The text on this painting reads:
You can really have no notion how delightful it will be,
When they take us, and throw us up like lobsters out to sea.
Cedar, May 20th 2009 |
Tags: Painting
Posted in Paintings
Last weekend I whipped up some business cards for myself using my beach painting. Since I recently printed out some photographs of my artwork to carry around to show people, I decided it would be stupid not to also get some business cards made up.
They should be coming today or tomorrow, and I am so excited to see how they look in person.
Cedar, May 15th 2009 |
Tags: Random
Posted in Random
Last night Russ and I went over to my dad’s house for dinner. My sister, who is in the process of moving out of my dad’s house, was scurrying around the house trying to pack up her things while we were over. Among them I noticed three large rolls of art. I asked her about them and she said she dumpster dived them, and that there were around two hundred pieces of crappy art on canvas. Bless her little heart, she offered me one of the larger rolls.
Thrilled, I decided to look through it first to see if any of the art was worth saving. We found one piece, that was a portrait, which my sister decided to hold on to. This afternoon I am going to go buy some gesso and stretcher bars at Blick so I can get down to business.
Cedar, May 14th 2009 |
Tags: Projects
Posted in Projects
No posts since Friday–how dreadful!
I spent the weekend working on a paper that was due in my class yesterday. It feels so incredibly wonderful to be finished with it, and have an entire day free to do whatever I please! I plan on working on my painting (below). It is coming along pretty nicely, but it is due next Monday. I have so much work to do on it still! Painting classes can be so frustrating at times, I can never get as much work into a painting as I would like. Because I work with oils, a lot of times I have to wait for portions of the painting to dry before I can add more details or work on that section.
I have so much other things to catch up on as well before my last day of class next Wednesday….and as soon as I get out of class I am going to rush home, pack, and hop a plane to San Francisco. Exciting! Time is really going to fly this next week.
Here is where I plan on spending all my time until then.
Cedar, May 12th 2009 |
Tags: Painting, Projects
Posted in Paintings, Projects
Whenever I am dry on ideas for art, the first place I turn to is Flickr. I regularly spend hours doing searches or browsing various groups. Lately there have been two groups I have been enjoying more than others. They are 100 Years Old and The Smiling Victorian.
I have hundreds of images saved in my favorites on Flickr for future inspiration. Every now and again I come upon an image that I just can’t get out of my head and stands out among all others. This image is one of those. I came across it in the 100 Years Old group, and can’t stop looking at it. The look on his face is so eerie yet serene. It is pure perfection.
Ralph Snider in Mirror
Cedar, May 8th 2009 |
Tags: Inspiration
Posted in Inspiration
This is the page from my naughty ABC book that I finished a few days ago. I will probably re-illustrate it fifteen times before it is done, but here is what B looks like at this point!
Cedar, May 7th 2009 |
Tags: Book, Drawings, Illustrations, Ink, Projects
Posted in Drawings, Projects
This painting was due last week in my class. I had to put a few last finishing touches on it this morning before I could photograph it.
Our assignment was to go take a photograph at the beach and paint it with something added in. I was pretty intimidated by this assignment, because I have never painted a scenary before. It was a ton of work, and I had to expirement and make up my own new techniques…but I am quite pleased with how it turned out. I think it may even be my favorite painting I have done thus far!
Cedar, May 5th 2009 |
Tags: Painting
Posted in Paintings
Last semester I took a drawing class at school. As our final project in class we had several options. The one I chose to do was to write and illustrate a book that parents would not approve of.
I decided to write an ABC book. I spent a really long time on it, but I could only illustrate it so well, since we only had a few short weeks to turn it in. The story turned out so well. Everyone I show it to laughs their pants off and wants a copy.
Since the semester ended I have been wanting to redraw many of the illustrations that I rushed through first time around. This morning I sat down and started on the first one. It is going to take me a while to complete this, but I really hope to get it published when I am done.
Cedar, May 4th 2009 |
Tags: Book, Drawings, Projects
Posted in Drawings, Projects
I finished this painting up a few weeks ago, but had to present it to my painting class for critique just this past Wednesday.
The subject matter was to be ‘the street where I live’, from there we can do whatever our little minds come up with. Well this is the street where I live. Obviously not in real life, but perhaps a bit in my head. I was playing with the idea of putting a little girl under the ground for a few weeks, and then once we heard the subject matter, it was easily transformed into what you see below.
Cedar, May 2nd 2009 |
Tags: Painting
Posted in Paintings
This morning my sister and I wathced In the Realm of the Unreal. It is about the artist Henry Darger. I only heard of him recently, after I saw this amazing tattoo, I had to find out more about him. I went on Wikipedia, and found out a documentary had been made. To the top of my queue it went!
It is a fascinating story about a recluse type man, who created amazing stories through his art about children and wars and all the likes. It wasn’t until after he died that they uncovered all these amazing works.
Cedar, May 1st 2009 |
Tags: Inspiration
Posted in Inspiration
