Im Arian. I gave up on going to art school and am living a small town life with my crazy dog. I paint, draw, read, and crochet. This is my life.
Catching Elephant is a theme by Andy Taylor
This is my Steller’s Jay, a close relative to the Blue Jay. I figured a Blue Jay would be well-represented at my group, so I picked his cooler-looking cousin. In nature his head is more black or brown and the rest of his body is blue. Figured since this is art I could get a little more creative with his coloring. Sometimes black, in certain light, can have notes of purple.
The Cyanocitta Stelleri. Front and Back
Im stumped with the painting I’ve got going right now…So what do I do? I start planning a new one.
I was inspired by some old “Turning Figure” drawings I’d done in Drawing class last year.
Time to get started. Maybe I should get off of Tumblr.
Im Tired
Work takes a lot out of me. I wish I didn’t have pesky bills and that dumb thing called “rent” cause then I would paint and draw and crochet all feakin’ day and its going to be awesome!!
Best run-on sentence ever!
It’s getting there!
I’ve gotten the dishes done and the groceries bought, so my to-do list has only one thing on it for the rest of the week.
PAINT.
Willy in her Halloween get-up!
Work in progress behind her. Im getting no where with it. It’s time to paint over it and let it go.
I literally moved everything around last weekend. The great reorganization! Willow made sure she was in the way the entire time. “Oh? You want to put the couch here? Well, Im laying here so….”
Introduced the new piece of art to the house…which is still not quite finished, but I like being able to look at it every day and think about it.
My arsenal. Coffee and paint brushes.
It’s almost there. There’s more greens to this one that the photo shows. It’s been nick-named “The Coffee Table Project”.
It’s a quirky title, but Im not sure if it will stick. I’ve also thought of “Synthesis” or “Blindness”. Synthesis was a book I read at the time, and Blindness is a Metric song I thought fitting for this piece.
Willy is watching me put the finishing touches on. She is such a great studio-mate.
I have been thinking about this all day, specifically this area of the painting. But I have been stuck at work, and when I finally get off Im too tired to pick up a brush.
Need. Coffee.
My new painting is morphing into something unexpected. Its a living work. Everytime I come back to it, it changes and gives birth to a new idea, a new possibility. I’m still not done with it just yet. I want to see how far I can take it. I have photos of the progress, and each stage looks like a different painting. Each snapshot could have become a completed work on its own, but sometimes when a work transforms itself like this one has, its hard not to see what it will become.
I finally set up my little “studio” room.
My new home.
This is my lovely old mantle!
Graduation
So this May I will have graduated with my Associates….in art.
How very useful.
And I was planning on going off to get my bachelors, but financial aid is a bitch, someone in my household was fired from her job for immoral reasons (coughmothercough), and grants are based off of the PREVIOUS year’s gross income… which is useless because the previous year won’t pay for this year.
Kinda hate how that system works, but what can you do?
I might delve off on another path, take a year off (because I can’t pay for it out of pocket), and do a shit ton of drawing/painting. And get a better job, which would be a plus, because then I can put “Associates Degree” on my resumes and hopefully better fish will bite.
ALSO! Im moving in less than two weeks.
Lot’s going on. Lot’s to think about. And it’s time to get my ass up and in the shower for work today.
The Stretch. It’s really rare to get both male and female models to pose for us together. I got some amazing drawings from this class. Really kinda sad it’s over.
