Groovy

I did this little drawing this afternoon.

If I had a website, I'd have something like that in flash for the homepage. With actual links instead of random sayings...

Hope the Thanksgiving holiday was nice for everyone.

Things I'm thankful for at this second:

• The RA on our floor has really good candy in the bowl in front of her door. (she sets it out there for us. Mini Butterfingers and Mini Crunch bars.)
• Lifetime shows Frasier late at night.
• Holiday Breaks.
• House shoes
• People who I can talk to anything about
• The cheap pack of markers I bought
• My yellow hat
• My family
• Being able to see my high school friends over break. and it not feeling like we've been far away too long to be able to talk.
• Walking in the dark down my street
• Yellow Ginko leaves on the ground from the tree next to my window.
• Nachos

I braved the cruel day called Black Friday this year with my friend Emily.

The dark grip of capitalism filled the air...

I bought some stuff. I kind of wished I could have made everything for Christmas this year, but it's hard to do that. Some people hate scarves, and really like DVDs and video games. oh well.

Yep.

Whispering your secrets to the goat.

"Whoever wants to know something about me... ought to look carefully at my pictures and try and see in them what I am and what I want to do."
--Gustav Klimt











This is my sketch for a painting I'm working on. We had to take elements of a still life and compose/change/add/whatever to them to make something interesting to us. Maybe tell a story, I can't remember....
Mines about death and grief.

It's been a rough semester for me.
I can't wait for it to be over.

BFA and paintings.

I was accepted into my school's Bachelors of Fine Arts program in Painting and Printmaking a few weeks ago. I only get the one degree, but they'll let you explore two concentrations.
You have to apply and they make a bit of a thing over it. Application and deadlines and whatnot.



The painting above is of my friend Morgan and a victorla. And swirly things. It's better in real life. That's an awful photograph.


My letter says

"During the portfolio review the committe made the following observations and suggestions:

...use of color is interesting. However, she needs to venture out of 'tube' colors...
...exhibits nice compositional skills...
...needs to 'lock down' her vision -- her work goes in too many directions...
...shouldn't rely on outline so much -- this needs to be discussed with her painting instructors."

We had to paint a still life with colors different from what they are in reality. It's my elephant statue, my crab toy and my flute.

I asked my painting teacher about that last one. He thought for a second before he shrugged told me it was something I shouldn't worry about. He makes me smile.
I'm happy he doesn't mind.
The strong outline around figures comes from my learning to draw from comic books, and my undying love for the form.
Superheroes don't really interest me, but I like the form a lot.
What can I say? I'm a comic book snob, although I've not had time or the resources to read as much as I would like to. Comic books or otherwise.
I've not even made my own lately.
I think that needs to change.

This is what my life has come to.

This message appeared to us out from the night.
The Gold Star Chili sign holds many secrets to the universe.
This is what my life has come to.

Hat Comic

I like my hat. :)
Click on it to make it bigger and to read it.

Sketch Pages

Jokers and Owls.
The fortune says"Birds are entangled by their feet and Men by their tongues."







Some sketch pages.
I'm gonna post art here more.

Louisville TMBG Pictures.

I went to the They Might Be Giants' Concert in Louisville Kentucky recently. I took some pictures. Enjoy!

Happy weekend.
I'm posting some paintings from my painting 1 class.

Happy Father's Day

This is what is going to be part of a postcard printmaking project. I am doing seasons, and this is fall. It is also a father's day card.

Happy day for fathers, grandfathers, would-be-fathers, men who inspire people like fathers, uncles, nice boys. Anyone who is deserving. I know it's a hallmark made holiday, but it doesn't mean we don't love you.

The truth is, we don't know anything.

I drew a self portrait this evening.
I think it's.... okay.
I forgot how much I like to do them.
That sounds vain, I know. Oh well.

"I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best."
~Frida Kahlo

Judy dreams of accordion androids.

Yeah, here are some more lino prints.
Full paper sized ones, not the tiny ones.
Anyway, this is judy:

and this is creepy scifi accordion dude:

They both say hello!

Sushi tests

I have finished the 'accordion accordion' book, and have moved on to my next project.
Tiny sushi stamps.
I think I might turn them into little magnets and maybe try to sell them?
anyway, here are the stamps:

Okay, below is more work on what I hope to be my etching design.
Hope you enjoy.


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Accordion Printmaking

As I might have mentioned before, I like printmaking. Here are some recent linocut prints of accordions. I plan to make an accordion bound book about accordions. A pun, yes, but I do like accordions.

A night in Berea (pt 2)

...I just think it's funny.
My high school friend and my college friend going to the same preschool.
But not as funny as the fact that he knew *exactly* where his baby book was.
...then again that could be kinda cool, not funny...

A Night In Berea

Visited the coffee shop today. Where Liza Minnelli followed Leonard Cohen on the speakers. We found that although the music might have been dance-able, after she started singing, it was only downhill. :)

mostly, a very good day.

Existential Crab

A breakfast fit for a king

Sorry for not updating for so long. (any of you who actually read this. haha)
Ah. The internet. Ah. Doing nothing.
I hate my own apathy.

Animal Crossing

Oh... Animal Crossing: Wild World.....

My (mostly female) friends and I love to play this game on the Nintendo DS.

Now, I enjoy it, although I do find it as pointless as The Sims and other games of its kind.

But for about an hour the other night we all played for about an hour, sitting on the floor, DS to DS connecting and playing in each other’s towns.

In Animal Crossing, the best of all the capitalism simulations, you buy houses, collect furniture, make friends with woodland creatures, and watch the small business in your town turn into wal*mart proportions. While running around shaking my friends’ fruit trees and seeing what new clothes they had at the clothes store, I am reminded of my childhood.

I am reminded of playing house with my friends. Dressing up in aprons, talking about our imaginary animal friends, generally doing similar things that this little virtual world has laid out for us.

And I smile because my actions haven’t changed, only the medium I am doing them thru. I smile because maybe I’m not as grown up as I thought. Maybe I can live in that world where I can play with my friends a little longer. Thru Animal Crossing, going to dinner, or just sitting and talking into all hours of the night.

I used to play with my Dad too, but that 's not really something that so much supports my thesis, as much as it tells how addictive the little game could be.

Well, I’m off to shake trees. Nookingtons’ is closing soon.