ermine/ferret

finally succeeded in drawing a nice picture of sarah :D!

lazy sunday

so i did kind of a lot of drawing today. after i woke up at around 1, i immediately began drawing from a copy of french vogue i found in my mom's studio. the sketchbook page for today is really nothing special. just loosening up my hand. actually since i suck so much at scanning my pages, this one cut out about half of my images..? it's not good enough for the effort, haha.

so i feel like this one is alright. i spent about 40 minutes on it and i am kind of happy with it. i still feel like something's wrong. i don't know if it's the values or the rendering or the colors or what? it looks better in person, i must say.
this was one of my first attempts at an "art nouveau" look..i wanted the hair to kind of look like stained glass and i knew i wanted some pink tones in the blonde hair. that's one of my favorite things ever :D pretty simple, but i like the end result.
this was just something i was playing around with. obviously it's very cartoony, but it was really fun to do. it was probably the most fun thing i did today. it took about 5 minutes but one of the most gratifying pieces. thinking of doing a series of these little thumbnails
there is one more sketch page that i was doing while i was attempting to watch tv...i leave blank paper and a pen/pencil around the house in pretty much every room so that if i get the urge to draw (and i usually do), then it's very simple. that'll be up tomorrow if not sooner. i feel like i need to push myself to be more and more self-directed. i am starting the painting of pam's house tomorrow if it kills me! i'm thinking watercolor now instead of acrylics. here's the pic i think i'm using for reference:

i'm thinking of a potential crop, but i haven't decided where yet. i really want to get in those beautiful hydrangeas! other than that, i really need to make sure that the perspective is in check. i think i am going to cut a few pieces of watercolor paper in varying proportions and sizes to practice :)

cracking down & loosening up

i woke up at 1pm

i woke up at 3:40pm

i woke up at 4pm

diet coke with lime

glaceau smart water

sun-maid golden raisins

nevermind

untitled

i am so depressed by this weather.

catching up

june 16th
june 15th
june 15th (II)

awake again

photo of my twin, lauren.
reproduction in graphite (the scanner left out some softer marks...ugh.)

me and a cat?

live from lo.ue's room

i'm doing an entry now because i have updated pics of my chocolate bowl. the final presentation is pictured as follows: (i ended up scraping off some of the white chocolate on the inside...also added the rice crispies and spoon for an extra element of "food art")
i also wanted to take a picture from my little area of my studio space. i am really going to miss it. since i have to share a room at home, this was sort of something i called my own. i had to clean everything up, take all of my work home, and all of that kind of thing. when i heard about the art assignments for over the summer, though, i got really excited! they wiped away all of my sadness because they sound so awesome.

something i've been working on for one of my last projects, inspired by a poem by ramon lopez velarde called mi prima agueda

awake.

OBVIOUSLY i'm still awake. i finished (and started) my art final today after school. i had so many ideas because the topic was so broad--"food art." my ideas ranged from weaving pull 'n peel twizzlers to edible clay to decorated cakes...but i finally picked an idea i loved. i made a bowl (vessel) entirely out of semi-sweet and white chocolate. the pictures suck so i'm taking them down.

amalgam

i guess i would just say that these are a mixture of different sketchbook pages i've worked on over the last few days. none of them are stellar but here they are anyway
(1) me as a model
(2) wow, bine is veryyyy small
(3) mixtures of textures, etc.
(4) done before syracuse graduation

still undecided

i haven't had much time to update recently, since i've been focusing mostly on doing well on my sats and finishing up school stuff, but i figured i'd just post to keep the momentum going. i am still struggling about the colors of my statuette...nothing seems to look ri

ght. i don't know why, but here are two different colour combinations i've been bouncing between:

draft 1., "milky" color scheme
draft 2., brighter and bolder

i'm thinking of combining the hair from the second one with the skin from the first. i don't know though, i haven't had much time to deliberate. i've got to go to my math tutor now, though so... BYE!

alright, so i've decided to change the skin color yet again. i think i may have got it now--a milky complexion with darker hair...definitely a more dramatic look. here is a photo: (granted not a very good one...my camera has the habit of not being very true-to-color)

i don't know if i like it...i plan to add little daisies of some sort being sprinkled all over the curls. i don't know...or maybe a veil of some sort? i'm looking to add an additional design element, something. i don't know yet. i also want to mount it on some type of platform. i looked in the art room today and found nothing. luckily, we have class tomorrow for a very long time +2 free pds.

undecided

i am so tired right now, ah! i did these contours of animals from my ref book which is pretty good DK eyewitness you can never go wrong...anyway i went on this site during my art class i hope no one finds it that would be terrible. i was really pissed because my scanner was being very temperamental and since the sketches were done with such a hard pencil they barely showed. i have a few more sketches that i did yesterday from my book and i have realized that regular pencils are so much better to draw with than mechanical ones, i have no idea why this wasn't more obvious to me before? but here's the first page of the day.

the beaver is a little hard to see, as is the top of the pig. oh well.

the "undecided" part of the blog today is that i'm still not sure what colors i should paint the sculpture. i had this good idea of a very light aqua-colored skin with turquoise hair, but i don't know. i was thinking that since i just did something "realistic" with the sculpey that i would rather do something more fantastical. i'll think about it...more pics later.