A spaceship for my brain

Doom and I celebrated being married for 2 months at a Greek food festival (mostly we were trying to forget the stress of this semester!)

Earrings I bought from one of the vendors at the fest.

 Art, I miss you, stay with me, don't go....

I apologize for my lack of blogging. Not only to any readers I might happen to have (har har) but to myself. I need a spaceship for my brain sometimes, something to take me out of this hectic life of breathless panic.
I should post more. It gives my right brain satisfaction and gives my imagination substance.

DIY Wedding Invitations

 

The supplies: shimmery aqua-colored scrapbook paper, cream cardstock paper, little fabric flowers in shades of aqua, bird stamp, gold stamp ink, glue stick, liquid glue, pattern paper cutter, pattern scissors. Additional resources: dafont.com fonts! :D  

Cost: Approx. $50! But a lot of what I bought turned out to be more than we needed so you could easily go under $50. 

 

First we stamped the cream paper with golden birdies, then we sent it through the printer with the text repeated 4x per page 

 

The final result! Now, I must say, the pattern paper cutter thing was very difficult to use at first, it took  me a long time to get used to using it. There is a lot of variation in my invitations! The sizes vary, the pattern varies (in many of them we only paper-cut the vertical sides, instead of all 4 sides) and the amount of flowers varies too. 

Thing's I've accomplished this spring break (part 2)

So I have school tomorrow, and I'm gonna suck it up and not be baby about it. Or at least I'll try. The funny thing is I haven't been able to sleep in late since my dogs wake me up early, so hopefully waking up won't be difficult for me.
Unfortunately, I have not finished my painting like I was hoping. But it is a BIG canvas, so I'm not too disappointed. I have been working on it though!

Slooowly gettin' there

I've also been playing Skyrim, and to answer Blogadog's question: No, I don't usually play games at all, I just watch Doom play. He has a PS3.
But I'm glad I did play this spring break because it was something new and different and fun for me. Once I got used to the whole walk-and-look-at-the-same-time thing, it wasn't that bad! Oh, also Doom had to put it on the easy setting for me so I don't die every time someone attacks. ;_; haaha
And in addition to getting Feivel groomed a few days ago, I groomed Titus today!

No more scruffy face

Both of them before grooming

Lookin' all dapper

Thing's I've accomplished so far this spring break...

Okay so I'm halfway through spring break... what have I to show for it?!

• Worked on my painting some more, I'd say I'm about 1/3 of the way there... It's taking longer than I expected! :O

The whole canvas!

• Just got Feivel all groomed and bathed, he smells good now and isn't all greasy/gross/matted. Yay!

•  I've cleaned my rooms and sprayed for bugs!
• Aaaand I've mostly just relaxed and been lazy and such. 
• OH, and I've been online 'shopping' for stuff I don't really need at all. Etsy is addicting, okay?! haha
• shiiiny 
• oooooh 
• overpriced but teeehheeee 
• I love this persons artwork but it is way out of my price range 
• Not really a typography fan but I kinda like it 
• I've been looking for really green jade but this was cool too 
• green! 
• also shiny 
• Okay, okay, I know. Enough. I shouldn't torture myself. I could probably make a few of those things myself if I was feeling crafty anyway. And as for artwork, soon I shall have my doggie painting to hang up! 

Do I haaaaave to go back to school next week? :( lol At least I should be starting some real research after the break! Hopefully I'll have exciting things to say about that. But for now I shall continue my break!

Babble Scrabble Dabble Yabble

So last night Doom and a couple of our friends, Chickadee and her boyfriend Orangutan. Justin bought me Hazelnut Baileys, the first alcohol I've enjoyed since being 21. I luuuuurv hazelnut... the alcohol part was nasty but oh well ;)
Then today I went to school, wrote a paper, submitted it, came home... aaaand I got hooked on painting. I just couldn't stop. Its nowhere near being finished but I'm pleased with the progress I made. When Doom came home he was feeling down cause he had a shitty day at work so we went to the movies and saw Burt Wonderstone, which was entertaining (I like Steve Carrell and Jim Carrey, I must admit). When we got home I took Titus for a jog, then started painting again. I had all kinds of intentions on doing some studying today, I really did :( Tomorrow I shall though. This post had no specific point to it really, twas just an excuse to babble while I do laundry, and submit pics of my painting so far.

I know this needs some work still

Adding progressively distant objects is HARD 0_0

Feiboo! :) I'm happy with he came out.

Hello old friend (me and my paintbrush)

Could it be? Munster picked up a paintbrush? Why yes, yes I did. I've had a big ol 24x30 inch canvas for about a year now and I finally decided to do something with it. It's such a daunting size however that I found myself over thinking what I wanted to paint! I finally settled on a subject: my dogs, in a natural landscape. At first I wanted to be ambitious, with mountains and streams and trees and and and... But again, its such a large canvas that I was afraid to plan out such a complex thing. So today, I buckled down, picked out a couple of refs and sketched it out, freehand, on the canvas. Of course, at some points I wanted to cry, I'm so danged clumsy with acrylics. But I left on a positive note, painting some plants in the foreground. I need to tackle this one section at a time, rather than doing 'layers' like watercolors.

Blurry pic--bleh.

Now I'm fighting the guilt I have over spending the afternoon painting rather than studying! >_< aaah, you can never win.

Sculpting Ideas for my restless hands!

Although painting is my main love, every once in a while I get the itch to pick up some sculpey and make something, but everytime I make something I think "Now what the heck am I gonna do with this?" I can't just have random sculptures hanging around, clogging up my tiny rooms! So I decided to browse teh internet for some inspiration on functional ideas.
Cake toppers ;)

•  Metallic, nice!
•  Cute dragons
• Doggies! 
• Love birds 
• Cherry blossom birds! 

Jackalope jewelry holder

• Like this, but I just want an excuse to have a giant jackalope in my room  ;)

Pendants, of course.

• Wolf! 
• Its neat to find new designs! Never would've thought of this. 
• Yussss GoT! 

Light switch covers

• Eh 
•  Meh
• Cuuute 

Chess pieces (not that I play chess ever, but maybe I would if I made my own set!)

•  Pern!
• Eh 
• Unicorns! 
• Pokemon! 

Anyone got any other ideas?

My 2013 project!

I've finally given myself a project for this upcoming year, and its a blog called Seasons of Lyor! Instead of another calendar project (which I did consider) I wanted to do something different. Basically I'll just write stories for some characters, forcing myself to illustrate and stick with it(atleast thats what I hope is going to happen.)

Remember these guys? Yep, they're the stars of these tales.
Here is some of what I've started for it:

Electricity pouring through me

Yeah, I went ahead and dove right into my acrylic paints again... Seems I'm bent on giving myself a headache! Large areas of blended colors are nearly impossible to create with acrylics, unlike watercolors! I still couldn't get the sky to look quite right, but oh well. I am pleased with the basic composition of my newest painting, though the details are lacking in some places. I might go back and work on it more later, but for now I shall consider it FINISHED.

Crappy quality picture, it's too big too fit in the scanner. :( 11x14in.

WIP pics:

close up!

Other than painting, I'm in a weird mood lately. Introverted sometimes, other times I enjoy time with my family. I love the holidays, and I blame the nonstop pace of the semester for making it so hard for me to adjust!

Mojo (Warning: Boobs)

Guess I've got my mojo back for now! And who would've guessed it would be acrylics that did it?! I spent today painting this little guy:

I was excited when I realized it was the right size to be scanned! Which is fantastic because all I could get was glare or miscoloration when I tried to get a picture of it.
Here are the work in progress pics:

 I am indeed loving this new art setup my dad got me... even though I was a skeptic at first.
Now, as far as the painting I 'ruined', maybe I didn't ruin it but its certainly not what I intended to create. It is definitely different from what I normally create though so I'll share:

"And I've turned into this smiling, snarling monster, As I watch the walls descend, As I watch the walls descend like stars." Rocket Collecting, Milla Jovovich

Looks like I need some practice with watercolors!