Real Human Bean

Figure Drawings from the past couple of weeks.  I think these were both all day poses.  The top one is from last week and the bottom is from ... 3 weeks ago?  I can't remember.  I like the top one better, the bottom is kind of cartoony or something, maybe it's the foreshortening.. and the line weight?  I'm not sure.  Oh! All of my figure drawings have been about 18 x 24"... if anyone was wondering.  I think I'm finally getting comfortable in this class... my teacher likes my drawings now aaand the model told me she liked my shoes, what a nice lady!  Now, if my other teacher stops telling me that my drawings are "cold" just like I am (not in a nice way), I'll be floating on a cloud of bliss.  Can't win 'em all.  

I'll be posting my finals in the next couple of weeks once they're all finished! 

Anybody get that title reference?  

Art Party

I wanted to share Paul's blog and concept art page!  I'm so proud of him ... It's inspiring to turn my head and see him working so hard.  I don't know how he does it... but it sure does pay off!  Look at it!  I would be lying if I said I wasn't a little jealous of his enthusiasm to work all night and day.  He's helped me so much with figure drawing.

Here's two of my favorites (they're all my favorites.. and I'm not just being sweet!) of his digital paintings.  I'm sure you can guess why... does the song You're So Vain come to your mind, too?  ;)

Here's his Blog 

http://strangepurpleart.blogspot.com/

And Concept Art (more things here) Page 4 is the most current!

http://conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=221438

He's the best! 

2 Girls 1 Color

I promise the title has nothing to do with anything about this project.  I don't even have a concept for it, I just wanted to draw some girls in cool clothes!  My teacher was asking a lot of people in the class what the  title of their pieces were during critique.  He didn't ask mine.  Maybe that is a good thing.

Anyways!  I think these turned out pretty nice.  I like them.  I've wanted to try incorporating cut paper into a more "traditional" technique (does that make any kind of sense?) for awhile.  I just wasn't sure how to go about it and I didn't really have an open opportunity to experiment until this assignment.  The girls are photo studies.  I found them on a street fashion blog.  I drew on clear vellum so that the cut paper could be pasted underneath.  (By the way... vellum is so amazing to draw on!  So smooth) For class presentation I hung them on t-pins so that they were about an inch away from the wall on which I had BFK cut to size as a base.  I was hoping that there would be a shadow of the studies with a silhouette of the cut paper cast onto the BFK, but the lights are fluorescent  in that classroom so it didn't really work.  The images on here are just scans so... no shadow here either (sad sad).

I definitely should have gotten some darker darks into this one.  

And here is the all day life drawing I made that day of class.  The hand and the shadow on her chest are... not so great.  I spent the most time on those parts... go figure (punny!). 

I hope your weekend is filled with lots of chocolate and flowers and soft socks.

Happy Spring!!

I am so thankful for this warm weather.  Sleeping with the windows open is truly one of the best things in life.  It is a little different here in Baltimore when we have police helicopters buzzing around at all hours (say whaaat?) but still, the fresh air is nice!  And they add excitement!  It's like I'm living in an episode of The Wire! (Not really... I am snug in this little apartment.)  The noise is actually comforting in a weird way anyways, I like the feeling of living in a city.  It's nice to know people are always around.  Also... I saw Paranormal Activity 3 last week and had the pants scared off of me so I'm not in much of a mood to be alone.  My phone rings and I jump.  It's fun.  

I made this yesterday in my collage class.  We were assigned a letter of the alphabet and had to make 2 images.  1 for a young audience and 1 for an adult audience.  This is the one for the small folks.  Next week I'll be working on the one for the bigs.  

E for Elk

Springstagrams

New York was wonderful! So many things have happened over the last week!  We saw old (but golden!) friends, ate WAY too much food (but it was all delicious so I don't care!), went to a meeting at Little Brown, pet some soft animals, saw some amazing art, watched movies, met a cat named CornMuffin and had some serious relaxing time.  The best kind of times!  I couldn't have hoped for a nicer break.

The tiniest cream cup

I love tiny things

A sweet little cup 

Beautiful Massachusetts

Kara Walker

It was the best!  Although, both Paul and I agreed that we need to take more pictures with people in them.  We saw some great friends and I wish we would have gotten a picture together.  But the memory is what matters, right?  I hope this wasn't too many pictures.. I just couldn't choose what to leave out!

Oh, in the picture where that kitty-pie is on my lap... I was living every dream I have ever had (I'm kidding.. that would be really depressing).  But, really.  Does it get better than a warm snuggly cat? (Hint.. the answer is no!)