Star Mother In Progress

If you have never read Star Mother's Youngest Child, you should. It's a sweet little Christmas story that I bought for my mother for Christmas this year. I was creating this painting [with acrylic ink & goauche for those who'd like to know] to go along with it--alas, I didn't get the painting finished as I was also doing a painting for my father. The end result, Star Mother still needs paint! But here it is currently:

[sorry for the pixels due to bad lighting and low res camera]

[close ups]

Star Mother

Crop from a sketch* for a painting I am working on. The Tempest sketch actually helped this one along. I will give you more info when the piece is finished... What do you think so far?

*sketch = not finished :)

Starting Over

I realized the other night that what I created for the Hope Project won't work and I need to start over. Why, you ask? Because I created those pieces trying to fit them to both my book and my grandiose vision for my BFA. In the attempts to fit both ideas behind the pieces, I realized my true artistic goal was never reached. Oh well! Things always are better the second time around, right?

And so this isn't just words, here is one of the pieces from Diabeasties:

Tempest Drawing

A quick drawing I did a couple days ago in black acrylic ink on watercolor paper. It was a little experiment with my new style on a not-quite-full-scale-level. I really want to start using lots of flat colors vs modelling, plus lots of patterns--it's what really attracts me. (NOTE: For any who might care, I did miss a word on accident, it is supposed to read, "We are such stuff As dreams are made on; and our little life is rounded with a sleep." Whoops! Maybe I will make another someday.)

The concept was based on my thoughts of what we are, what we are capable of, where we are going, how we get there, what kind of drive it takes, etc. A lot of those "new beginning" thoughts and emotions have been my companions for these last few months during this transition from school to real life.

The Cake Adventure

Everyone thinks that if you are an artist, you can do anything remotely "artistic" (even artists think this.) Well, it may be true to a point, but I have recently discovered that my calling is and never will be cake decorating (there goes that café idea!). I may make exceptions for certain people.

Here is how the cake turned out. (I did not make the cupcakes, but I did make the cupcake stand.)

I felt a little awkward taking a photo by my friend's wedding cake... can you tell?

My sister-in-law does a much better job at cakes!