strange kid

self portrait

Based on a camera phone pic from last year. Gouache and colored pencil, two hours. Hitch-hiker thumb!

stuff I've been doin'

Hey, guys! This is what my desk looks like when I'm painting! It looks like one of those I Spy pictures because I'm pretty messy. Things to note:

• That's a gouache painting of Eira and James that won't fit on my scanner.
• My palette is an IKEA dinner plate, purchased at Goodwill for 99 cents.
• I haven't bought a new desk calendar since last year. Still living in November 2009!
• Can you spot a piece of the photo scrap leftover from this painting?
• Yes, the lighting in my work space really is that bad :(

Also, I was getting annoyed at the blank wall behind the bed, so I made a clothespin hanger-thing from which I hung some CD inserts. I also spray-painted the clothespins blue, though it's hard to tell from my bad photo. Is the lighting this bad everywhere in the apartment? Answer: Probably.

status: still busy painting!

Here's a painting project I'm actually quite font of. The idea was to take sections of two photographs and combine them into an imaginary landscape. I used a beach scene with a swing set and a night-time photograph of a city sidewalk. And here's the result:


See the swing-set? Also, in case it's hard to tell, the smoke on the far right is actually mountains. And yeah, this is probably the first landscape I've ever finished??

still life/playing with gouache

I think the reason I've been drawing less is that most of my energy's been going into projects for my water media class. Trying to paint more representationally (without my familiar black ink lines) doesn't come easily to me at all!