Ok so i had to redo the 7-days of creation post, because i was only missing one day of drawing, and i dated the sketches wrong…whoops, so here is the correct version of my COMPLETED 7-days of creation.
DAY 1
11/5
DAY 2
11/6
DAY 3
11/7
DAY 4
11/8
DAY 5
11/9
DAY 6 & 7
11/10-11
(this was a compilation of 2 days of drawing)
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This is actually something i owed myself weeks ago for completing my 7 days of creation challenge….it’s not moleskin, i didn’t like the idea of having something made from an animal skin anyways. I found this today made out of cardboard with heavy paper…i love it!
Oh! crap i just realized i didn’t post all 7 days worth of work….once i get my scanner working, i will post. I did complete the challenge, i promise, otherwise this new sketch book will be my Christmas gift from me.
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I hope to start working on a couple portraits for X-mas….yeah! i know i have 4 days…lemme tell you..i draw and paint pretty fast…and best under pressure! So once i get my house in order, i can focus on the ART! I promise, next year to do something with my artwork! I can’t sit on this anymore. Although I love my job at the coffee shop, I’m not making enough to make a living off it, so i will have to be resourceful and use my God-givin’ talents!
til’ next time!
BTW! yay! i found Vintage Black pin-up!
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I’m here.
I have come up with a challenge for myself. I call it 7 days of creation, influenced by Genesis, you know that first book in the Bible. I’m not about to preach to you, i’m just gonna say that 7 days is a good start to making something a habit. I learned that i need to set small goals for myself…gawd! here i am going off on a tangent like i ALWAYS do. ok..i was saying my challenge is called 7-days of creation, the point is to do SOMETHING creative once a day, (it’s better than nothing, right?). If i miss a day i have to start the 7 days all over again, until it becomes an everyday thing, sort of like my journal writing in the mornings, unfortunately i can’t do it every morning, but I am learning to eliminate things that cause me to miss my journal writing, for example, going out and getting myself a hangover the night before.
Currently I am on Day 3 of my challenge, although i would love to scan these pretty sketchbook drawings in, my freakin’ 3-1 printer, scanner copier, needs ink….errrr! at $40 for 4 cartridges, i must wait. At least I am doing my challenge.
i also plan to redesign my site. I want it to be me, i want it to be what it is, i don’t want to sugar coat it for anyone. I think that when people know i paint and draw, they may get the impression that I do fine art, well this here, ain’t no fine art, it’s more what you call cartoons, i know some people in the art world think cartoons are just for fun and a little laugh, well my cartoons…they’re me, they’re what i do, i love them, they have character, they don’t bore me like the art museums, with splattered “contemporary” paintings on the wall….i don’t do abstract, i don’t do landscapes, i rarely do still lifes, i hate doing realistic portraits. Don’t get me wrong i CAN do it, i’d just rather not waste my time doing it. You could say i’ve “been there, done that.” gawd! i sound stuck up, i think i’m just tired. Picasso could do realistic work, but what did he end up finding joy in…uh! huh? Cubism!
ok after all my ranting…goodnight world!
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i am currently working on this painting, i call it “pretty birds”. i am trying to take pictures of the process as i work. here i started with my sketch book drawing and transferred it to transparency, to use on my old school overhead projector. the canvas size is 24×36, i love that size, it’s like the perfect proportion.
i have a few projects, portraits actually that i need to be working on for other people, but i have to complete on painting for myself before i’ll feel comfortable moving on. i have wasted my gift this year, and now i feel i am trying to make up for it. well at least i am doing it, right?
here is where i am now, updates coming.
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i found this technique that i read the old masters used to use, mostly dutch painters. it’s called the flemish technique i love it, it’s basically what i have been looking for through all my trial and error in painting. i drew a still life, of a munny doll. i found my steps for this technique here. i hope to do a few more still lifes and then portraits.
here is what i have so far, i’m not sure where i want to go with the color. excuse the crappy pics, my scanner is down.
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So things in my life are looking up now, my mother is in the hospital improving, i’m feeling motivated at art, i just got a cruiser (bike) from my best friend and i have been having some good hair days lately, i never have those.
I have to do 4 portraits soon, one i’m getting paid for, so i’ll hopefully be posting the progress on those.
i decided to check the length of my hair to see how much it’s grown since i started doing the henna ( i must say is the best thing i have ever done for my hair), which means i straightened it. here are the results:
more updates to come.
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my 3-1 printer is out of ink, therefore it will not let me scan my drawings, so i took pics of them. i did most of the under drawings for them in orange col-erase, but it didn’t show up on my camera ( i guess the settings affected it). in school they told us that col-erase don’t show up on film, but i never believed it until now. i did a lot of shading detail using the col-erase…eh! oh well…enjoy!
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I’ve been in doodlin’ mode and hopefully it will lead to starting a new painting.
I have these post cards that i got at an exhibit Glenn Barr had in Dallas, i put them up on my wall in my “art studio” area, and they are very very inspiring….he is a must see….check him out!
i know, this blog would be so much better with daily artwork posted.
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it’s really sad that it takes something traumatic, like death, to make us realize how precious and short life is. although there are so many bad things in life, i really don’t want to leave it, i hope there is an afterlife. it’s hard to imagine, this not being it. this post isn’t meant to be a downer, but lately i have been thinking about death, but not in a morbid way, just it’s all around us and i feel like we ignore it as if it can’t happen to any of us, just me typing this makes me uneasy, but i have to ask myself, why? death, it’s apart of life. it is exactly what reminds us that we need to live in the moment and not get ourselves hung up over things that REALLY don’t matter. i love life, and i am happy i appreciate it. i will from this point on, make the most out of my time in this world.
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