Oops!

I completely forgot to blog last night! My baaad. I had a crazy day though, which ended in the return of a long lost friend. I won't go into details. Let's just say Mother Nature ganged up on me.

Anywaaay~ I am still working on this mermaid. It's proving to be a tad more intricate than I thought. Not to mention I spent most of the day yesterday doing a photoshoot with my sister and editing said photos.

I also uploaded a few more random photos I recently edited onto my Deviant Art account. I am going to finish editing the photos from yesterday's shoot and get them up on DA soon. For now, I leave you with a little preview!

Good day!

Mermaid

So today's slip was a mermaid, but not Ariel. (She has her own slip somewhere in there, haha.)

I brainstormed a really great multi-media project for this. It is kind of intricate and I have to wait a lot for drying, and I am also trying to get my room around, so it is going to stretch into tomorrow. I also took a break and made cookies. ^__^

I won't go into details about it until it is finished so, this is it for today!

Double Day & Pictures

So because I slacked off yesterday I did two slips today. Yesterday's cheeseburger and today was balloons.

For the cheeseburger I decided to use one of my tiny canvases (5x7in) and acrylic paint. I thought about what I should make the cheeseburger look like and I decided it would be sweet to make it a Krabby Patty. For those of you who do not know the wonders of the Krabby Patty I bestow upon you this. I realize that my painting does not have visible cheese, and that is because the reference picture I used did not have visible cheese. Fear not however, there is cheese. I really had a great time painting this, it was a lot of fun.

Now to the balloons. This project was so fun fun fun to do. I decided to use old deflated foil balloons from my birthday last year to make mini balloons. I found a good size peice of cardboard and cut it to the size I wanted, about 12x18in. I covered it in a lime green tissue paper-like "fabric". It's basically the same kind of thing as dryer sheets are made of. I then compacted tissue paper into circles and stuffed the backs with plain paper to give it a flat back and keep it in shape. I cut the foil balloons and wrapped the circles in them, giving them a little "tail". Then I tied ribbons to them and used double sided tape to attach the balloons to the "canvas" so to speak. I twisted the ribbon down and secured it in the back of the piece. I am really happy with how it turned out and the photos just do NOT do it justice. I will try to take better ones in better light when I get the time.

Last but not least, as promised, here are the (not the best quality because my room is pretty dark and they either got washed out or were a tad blurry) photos of this past week's projects:

The Idea Can

Crazy Design

Abstract Ishkaboo

Song- "You Don't Know Me"

Krabby Patty

Balloons

So there it is! The pictures really don't do much justice, but my room is terrible for lighting at the moment and I just wanted to get them up. I have reason to believe someone had their mitts on "Abstract Ishkaboo" because I see weird spots on it so, ignore them please. Eventually I will try to get pictures that are truer to how the pieces look in real life.

As always thanks for looking!

Fail

Okay, today's slip was cheeseburger, but I didn't do anything for it. Unless you count making cheeseburgers for dinner. Which I totally did.

Anyway, I did however actually upload some things onto my Deviant Art account so you can head over there if you please by clicking here.

I know I promised pictures on Sundays but I got a little off whack so expect them tomorrow, along with cheeseburger, and whatever tomorrow's slip is, art.

Song

Today's slip was a song. It seemed like a good idea when I wrote it but I don't know if it was just me or what but I wasn't into it at all.

I used a piece of sketchbook paper, a mechanical #2 pencil and colored pencils. The song I picked was "You Don't Know Me" by Ben Folds, because it's been in my head all day and it was the only song I could think of an idea for. I drew two little people looking defeated. I had them each saying the same boring thing and I drew thought bubbles above them with things they liked, but they were somewhat opposite of each others. I colored the people in black and blue and pink respectively for the male and female. I didn't get to coloring the rest because frankly I just wasn't into it at all.

The idea however is something I might come back to, possibly in another context unrelated to the song itself. Hell, I might get the whim to finish the coloring of this one, but as for now it's done.

Ishkaboo

Today's slip was Ishkaboo.

It's kind of funny that I picked him out of the can today because earlier I was thinking of what I would do when I did pick him. I was laying with him on the couch watching Cold Case Files (lol) and I was looking at his face thinking of a cool way to do him in charcoal.

I picked a piece of yellow/tanish/orangish pastel paper. It's a little heavy and textured for charcoal but I liked the texture of it showing through for him since he is peppered with light hair. I shaded the whole paper in charcoal and blended it in with a napkin I had nearby. Then I used my artgum eraser to wipe out the bright parts of his face. It turned out pretty abstract so I went with it. I used the charcoal to darken some lines to enhance his cat stripes.

It was a quick piece but it turned out pretty neat and it's really the first time I've done anything with charcoal. I really liked the reverse drawing aspect of using the eraser to actually draw it. I am leaving it propped up against the wall until I can get spray fixative for it. I am putting off any further charcoal adventures until I get some, as it is really fragile to have on paper and wipes away easily.

Crazy/Random Design

I decorated my idea box today. I covered an empty cappuccino container with black paper and cut out a yellow light bulb for the front. I made a little pocket in the back for blank idea slips. It's really cute, I think.

Anyway, my first slip was Crazy/Random Design.

I decided to use the medium paper from my sketchbook and my Crayola Supertips markers. I brought wavy lines out from the center to make it look like they were coming out of a hole/tube type deal. I added straight lines behind them, also looking like they were in a tube. Then I made a huge swirl over top of them. I made the swirl hot pink and the wavy lines black. It looked really sharp, until I added the color to the straight line spaces. I alternated teal and purple. It still looks okay but it looked a lot better with a white background instead of the teal and purple spaces. All in all it turned out okay. It was fun to make anyway.

By the way, I'll be updating with pictures of my daily projects on Sundays.

Ideas

Sometimes, well, most of the time I find myself stumped for ideas of things to make/draw/paint etc. So I decided to make an idea box.
I took plain white paper and wrote a bunch of things I like or am interested in and also just random things on them. I put them in a little container and every day if I don't already have something I want to do I draw from the container. Every night I write at least 2 things to add to the container so that it is always growing.
I write things like "still life" multiple times because I can set up still life things as many times as I want. I also have ideas written for different series of paintings/drawings so I only wrote them once and plan to just return them to the bin. I wrote multiple still life's because it is something I need more practice with.
I hope this will help me become more disciplined in actually practicing every day instead of doing things I am already good with, since I am pretty much forcing myself to experiment with doing different things.