Little One

Beck I've always loved them.  Sea Change is my go to album :)

Wow! It's June! So this summer is not being the productive art summer I imagined and wished for when I was in school.  I've hardly finished anything, but I still doodle everyday. Even a little drawing makes me feel like not such a lazy artist.  So here are some the better drawings I've done this month.


Facebook is really a good source of reference material for facial expressions.

Done for my Boss's birthday, it's her baby :) Drawing children has always scared me and rightly so.  This looks retarded.

A very Mucha inspired horsie.

A friend of mine asked me to draw a seraphim for his band.  I kinda like it.  I may do other versions, but this one turned out pretty spiffy.

Drew my puppy napping next to me.  I love this guy so much <3

I'll try to be better about posting, and try to finish some stuff, but who knows if there will be any sort of consistency. 

She was born to be the woman we could be blame

Jezebel Iron & Wine.  I get to see them on June 3rd! So excited!


Don't have a ton of stuff for this post, but I do have this awesome piece of Banjo Rat!! I miss doing art about him, I really need to get back in the swing of it.  Just Trumpet Muskrat and Banjo Rat jammin away in the Bayou. They are so happy :)

I really like how the trumpet turned out, so shiny!

This is just a page from my sketchbook.  A fellow cashier at work wanted to draw a rose and he likes polar bears so I did this for him.  That white gel pen on the toned paper makes me so happy.

I am working on a painting, and I've got another gallery opening soon so that's all quite exciting.  I'm also learning to play the banjo! Banjo Rat will be such a well developed character :D

The Cascades

Fleet Foxes Just discovered these guys, I like 'em quite a bit.

I've got some older drawings from my last sketchbook that I'd like to post. Creepy Rabbit Guy doodle.  I really love making full blown drawings with ball point pen.  It's a surprisingly versatile tool.  I never finished it, but I'd like too. Creepy Rabbit Guy is fun to draw.

My friend Christian again. 

A really rough sketch, but I like the idea a lot. I may paint it one day.

A Banjo Rat doodle done on a scrap piece of paper. Very very rough, but I love the pose.

This is a comic I did with Banjo Rat. It's the first time Banjo Rat opens his eyes! He's really socially awkward when he's not playing the banjo.

This is the last piece in the Rabbit Lady series.  I submitted this to the senior show and it got in! Getting into galleries is addicting! I think it's a pretty strong piece and I'm pleased with the end result. 

Oil on panel.  18x24.

I've also been accepted into a local gallery in a show all about pets. I submitted the portraits of my dogs and my rats.  This is the first gallery that isn't related to a student show that I've gotten into.  With the semester over I've got so much time to focus on whatever I want.  It's fun, but also intimidating.  Hopefully I'll keep up with all my sketchbook postings :)

 

Let me sing you a waltz

Before Sunset OST A really lovely movie, fast becoming one of my favorites.

Lots of sketchbook stuff today!! The semester ended and I'm actually really sad.  I enjoy school and I'm worried this summer is going to be boring.  Well I suppose I'll just have to make it full of art!!

First up is a pug I drew. I've been interested in the different head shapes of dogs. I plan on doing portraits of brachycephalic, mesocephalic, and dolichocephalic. It's fun to say and I feel smart that I know that stuff :P

My friend Christian is a rockstar.

I like how this one turned out, but there needs to be somethings else, maybe a bird of some sort.

My classmate, Alex.  He was just writing in his notebook and I really liked the pose he was sitting on so I had to draw him :)

Carousel horse!

European Hoopoe, really neat looking birds.

My boss, Mitch.  He asked me to draw him so I did.  He's a hipster.  

Oh filling up my sketchbook makes me so very happy.  Maybe the summer will really just totally rock with lots of awesome drawings :D

One more chain I break to get me closer to you

Rufus Wainwright I've loved Rufus Wainwright for a long time

This post is really just to share my excitement about recent happenings.  I submitted two of my paintings for the student show. I got one in, the Rabbit Lady, and I was really excited! I've never been in a show, and even though it's just the senior show, it was still juried and it's still an honor to be accepted.  So here's me with my framed painting on a gallery wall!

The professors also hung up the works that got rejected on the third floor of the art building, so here's me with my cute little rejected painting.

I was productive today though.  I finally finished a birthday present for a girl I know.  Her birthday was Feb 4 so it's 2 months late, but you can't rush art! It's her horse, Sugar, and my god this painting was so time consuming and hard.  I'm glad it's done and I'm never going to do a painting for someone's birthday again.  It's acrylic on canvas, 18x24.

So that's that.  I'll post some more sketchbook stuff soon, I like showing my drawings more than my completed works.  I think they are much more interesting.

Scattered shadows on the wall

The Weepies again. Lovely lovely artists.

Well, I've been busy with the end of the semester approaching.  Working on my final projects and what not.  First we have the continuation of the Hare lady and Coyote lady narrative.  This piece went surprisingly fast, only about 10 hours.  I'm really happy with it too, so much emotion! It done in oil on an 18x24 panel.

Next up we have my Advanced Figure Drawing final. The instructions were to have two figures to create narrative.   I was happy about that, I'm big on narrative :) So it's a self portrait with my doggy.  Done in Charcoal 14x17 on Bristol paper.  It's pretty much an exact copy of a photo my friend took of me, but I loved the image so much I wanted to draw it. I might also use the same image for my Painting final, we'll see.

I am so excited for this semester to be over so I can focus on what I want again. This is all very beneficial though.  It's also kinda scary, because I only have one semester left and them I'm done with college! Crazy!

Please speak well of me

The Weepies Love this whole album

Here are a few paintings from one of my classes.  First is an Indonesian mask that my professor had.  It's very light and I used a lot of turpentine. I like it though, it was fun :) 12x 12 oil on wood

This was drawn from a big stuffed goose my professor had. I made a very kitschy painting, but I like it.  12 x 12 oil on wood.

These are a few pages from my new sketchbook that I really liked.  The figure ones are from the Saturday morning sessions I always go to.

I wanted to try drawing something besides animals and people, turns out I can draw cars! It was actually a lot of fun, I think I'll do more in the future. Smart cars are so freaking cute.

Drawing Banjo rat, I love that guy. I'm trying to understand rat anatomy more so that I can abstract it in a believable way.  Their skeletons are really long.  And look! Banjo Rat with his eyes open! That very rarely happens :) 

Just having a grand 'ol time drawing away.  I'll be happy when the semester is over and I can focus more on my personal rat again.