Dedication

I think I need to get serious about art.

Setting Goals

I think I am going to set some goals. Make X amount of art, X amount of craft, and X amount of creative writing.

Right now, I am painting a mural (another one). Pictures coming soon!

Merry Christmas and Murals

Simple paint, but look how the snow came out! Soon it shall be decorated with cute colored snowpeople, tree decorations, and doves as colored by the little ones at our library. Exciting! My first public art project.

Another view. I love the stars!

I led a simple printmaking workshop - here's what the kids made!

On the very same day I hosted an "art challenge," where kids got a bag of supplies which had to be used in their entirety to complete an art project. They received prizes! This one was a fantastic finished piece, and was complete before any of the others. Look at all that modge podge!

I am getting better at photography. Here is my crazy cat trying looking for food. She is like a houselion.

More embroidery!

Here is one I am working on now - it's a hand-drawn sketch very loosely inspired by a selection autumnal holiday greeting cards. If you know me, then the subject of this one is likely not a surprise. I do love my furry little critters.

And HERE is the finished version of my gnome embroidery -- this is my very first attempt at embroidering, everything was either spontaneously stitched or hand-sketched and then stitched with freehand embroidery. You'll notice a variety of different stitches. It's not a very cohesive piece, but that's okay -- what do you expect from a test piece?

New project: embroidery!

Gnome embroidery project with a wonky flower. He needs a lot of filling in, and many more flowers. This is my first time embroidering EVER, which you can probably tell by the lack of quality of my stitches.

Recent Digital Illustration

Here is a more "finished" version of a drawing I've been working on in photoshop. It involves a source image and some careful tracing, but all in all it is hand drawn and colored. My first foray into serious digital illustration. It takes a lot of time!
Here she is again without much coloring! I am looking forward to finishing her and perhaps starting on other projects. I don't know what it is about isolating figured outside of a context, but I kind of love it. I am so into detail that sometimes everything I love gets lost in a sea of beauty, so if you pull out just a few things, the presence of a person or animal, or the shape and line of an object and isolate it, you get something just a little bit magical. Or so I hope ;)

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