You know that moment when you're typing words and start to think they look weird? Well, they don't look weird when I include "Cher". So there.
Now, get ready for horrible photos of things I have created!
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"Boy Scout Mountains" No idea if that's a real thing,
but I called this painting that because I was inspired by a tin of boy scout
popcorn with a mountain design on it.
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"Boy Scout Mountains 2" This is a different version
that I really enjoyed painting mainly because the canvas was horizontal
and I had never painted on something this shape before...
even if I paint of rectangles all the time it was just a squattier one!
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I was trying to talk my dad into getting business cards printed up by
drawing this for him. It didn't work! But I was inspired by something that had
really groovy 70s inspired illustrations on it. Maybe a magazine or
something, I don't remember. I have since then picked up learning the
guitar and quite enjoy finger picking and recording myself so that
I can send the songs to my friend in Massachusetts.
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These were apples I photographed and then painted. We have an apple tree
in the back flower bed that gets attached by squirrels the minute they start to grow.
We'll never know if they even taste good! I wish they would
grow so many that the squirrels would get so full they
left them alone...along with the peaches!
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This is a painting created on a broken heart. My ex boyfriend loved otters and
I was trying to win him back by sending this to him "stalker-mode" style. I was in a
very weird place. I just hope it didn't end up in the trash.
OH...and it didn't win him back THANK GOODNESS!
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I was planning on doing a whole series of dogs from the place I worked at.
I lost interest after the second one/it was really hard to get pictures of the dogs being still and cute.
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I wanted them to be psychedelic so it wasn't just another run of the mill
(bad joke when referring to dogs Emily, geeeez) dog portrait.
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I enjoy sowing when I have a working sowing machine. I made this apron that ties
to the side instead of to the back...but I made it out of a dress someone gave me! I baked a lot when
I lived at my parents house and my only job was to hang out with dogs half days.
I don't bake as much or as creatively now, even though I could probably
do so just fine.
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I painted this for a friend from band (I play the trumpet too!) who needed
wall art for his band office. I hope it still lives strong! I just loved drawing and
painting the trumpet. I knew it's parts so well that it was fun and easy.
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Weird shots of my legs done up in henna. I was a paid henna artist at
a vendor's market in downtown Austin for a bit. I loved being able to interact
with the customers a lot easier, especially since I was working with a really
great friend that I had met at the market when I sold my pottery there.
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Henna was fun because I could draw on people rather than on paper.
It took some time for me to work up to having strong and steady hands to
really give people nice pieces of art to take home with them and
wear for a few weeks.
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After doing henna, I got really into mandalas and creating
them with the large collection of markers that I own. I sent this piece
to a girl I was sort of mentoring at church. But then I because a middle school
sponsor and I couldn't be her mentor anymore since she was in
middle school. It wasn't fair, but the changed the mentor
program anyway into something I didn't agree with.
But I lost, and I still try to send her notes occasionally.
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This is the shell of my tiny house. The outside is actually not near completion
besides a few final touches to the roof, and putting a door in. I am looking forward
to working on the inside soon! My dad, brother, and myself are the main people
that have done work on the house, though I did invite my best friend to help
as well, and it was pretty funny how awful we could be at hammering nails.
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This is a commissioned painting I did for a friend's niece. I was at a graduation
party for her cousin, and she came up to me in awe over the painting I did for her aunt and uncle (below)
and asked me if I could do a painting of her on her pony. This is the first animal and human portrait
I had ever done in acrylic. I hope she loves it for years to come!
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This commissioned piece was done for my best friend's parents. I had visited this place a few times
and was happy to immortalize it in a paint...with a few adjustments. It's their families inherited land in Fayetteville, Texas.
A great place to watch the stars, walk the town streets, and hang out with great and hilarious friends.
It's even really fun to share my elbow grease and help clean up spider droppings...I'm serious! It's fun!
So I moved the water tower and added a windmill and spruced up the fence and mowed the lawn, all in this tryptic painting, and I didn't even break a sweat. Ha!
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The following is a baby's head shaping helmet. A friend hired me to paint it so that
her kiddo could be more stylish as her head slowly got reshaped. The photos are a little milky
looking because I had covered the helmet in mod podge which looks pretty milky before it's dried.
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I picked up embroidery really quickly a few months ago. I practiced a few stiches and then got
to work on creating this sunflower for a amazing friend's baby shower. It was really fun watching it
all come together and normally processes that take a long time make my anxiety just awful, but
this was actually relaxing! She lives in New York in a small house, so I wanted to make sure I was
making something that could easily find a place in her home.
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My try at making a collage of cacti and succulents. Since then I think I have even added another plant.
Weird I can't remember, but I look forward to using the tan linen I recently purchased to
make even more designs!
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I did this just the other night. At first I just started putting flowers all over the page and thought,
this looks to crazy! So, I almost started over and left this as a practice page....but look!
I forced myself to make it work, and it did!
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| Groovy dude. Another pen and ink drawing I did some other night. I finished watching The OA and that's when I realized that it was 1:30AM and time to go to bed. I was just so happy to be drawing again. |
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I think of my great friend whenever I see or draw sunflowers. The same one I did the sunflower embroidery for.
She once commented on the sunflowers that had popped up along the sides of the road and how much she enjoyed them
and it stuck with me as important. Though I love drawing flowers more geometrically sometimes, it's
really nice to draw organically as well.
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