Speaking of Art...

...this is my birthday cake from this year! Marko Head (MarkoHeadArt!) and Becky Funderburk made this little cutie. :) It's a beautiful piece of art!! The little Octopus is a Crayola bath toy. You hook it onto the faucet and water comes out of his legs! Marko added the beard and eyebrows.

My Favorite Shots From My Birthday At The Zoo!

EETS DONE!!

FINALLY got my Design II project done yesterday. It took probably around 6-8 hours in all to paint it. 4 hours on the foreground. I'm happy with it, but I wish I could paint better. Note to self: when you have two weeks to do a project, there's a reason. Don't put it off until four days before it's due.

Whew!

I finally finished my framing. I could enter three, and three I entered. I was taking a poll on Facebook about which rat design I should use and decided to use all three. I found an old, flood-survivor frame and made the back myself. Here's my finished pieces that I turned in today. Whew! It's over! But now the wait to see if I've gotten in or not. PLEASEPLEASEPLEASE!


BTW- Sorry about the crappy pictures. I used my phone. :P

Thoughts and Student Competitive #2

I'm really trying to do new things with art lately. It's all been digital/mixed media, but that's where I feel most comfortable. I'm kinda getting frustrated. I feel like I'm just waking up and trying to stretch my artistic abilities but I'm chained down. I guess I just don't have any direction. I look at this piece and wonder if it's a tacky horribly-done Illustrator piece. Like the horrible Deviant Art I see sometimes. I don't want to be one of those "artists". I want to experiment but I'm afraid it'll look bad. I feel like I CONSTANTLY must be asking questions and asking Marko what HE thinks I should do. Poor guy. He must really love me if he puts up with it so much. I played around last night and really wanted to draw a rat. I've fallen in love with colors and symmetry (I know, I know...symmetry is a dangerous thing to fall in love with...) and this shows it very much so. I'm going to enter it, but I honestly don't feel good about it. Gosh....I just want to be completely happy and find my thing in the art world. I AM proud of how far I've come in my little over a year of art experience.

No Plan....All Do.

Mr. Robert O'Nale and I worked on this piece today! No plan in mind.... It actually started with him asking me what to do. I replied. "Whatever. If I want to add an octopus with an eyepatch, I will!" "Ok! That's what we're doing!". Thus this piece was born.

I'd like to say I contributed more, but the prettiness is mostly Mr. Bob. I added the snail thing, starfish, and goldfish in love with the octopus. Everything else was all him! :) You should really paint more, sir. Don't let 8 more years go by without picking up a brush!!

Student Competitive Piece #Uno!

This is my first piece for the Student Competitive. :) I hope I actually get in! That's my goal! This is my first time to actually enter something like this (we were REQUIRED to turn in a piece for Art Seminar last semester....my piece is one of the ones in the Library, but I don't count that...I mean...I did get picked out of the whole group...but it's not big or anything.)!!

Please leave any feedback you may have. I drew the atomic bombs and rabbit in illustrator. The background is paint.