Blogging

I felt the extreme need to blog, yet with nothing specific to blog about.

I have pictures from Matt's birthday, although I haven't uploaded them, due to sheer laziness.

I'm working on a sketch. I'm halfway through a painting, and a sketch, and plan on starting another sketch immediately after I finish the one I'm working on, and it's coming out beautifully!

My back has been hurting me for the past two days. Perhaps it's sleeping on a couch for 6/7 days in one week and 6+ hours in a car in the course of three days... But it's more of a sharp pain than an achey feeling so I'm suspecting I pulled something. Consequently, working (which requires a lot of bending and lifting) I've been using my legs more because my back hurts, and now my legs are sore!

Ooh kay... The Locator premieres tonight! I'm pretty excited. I've seen a couple commercials and it looks like it's going to be pretty cool.

Etch a Sketch Thursday: Week 12

Okay, so let me be brutally honest.

School has started. Work is picking up. I'm budgeting my time very strictly.

I'm trying very hard to do a picture a week, but I didn't realize how much time painting took until I did these last two pictures.

The eye didn't take so long mostly because it was a very small portion of a face and had very little detail, but I'm starting to paint faces now, and I'm going to switch to two weeks for paintings. If I do a sketch, I will do one a week (and I do plan on doing more pencil sketches) but If I do a painting, plan on me skipping a week, although I will still update on Thursday :)

OK:

So I'm about halfway done with a painting of Alyssa Milano. I've done her hair, which actually takes up half of the picture! It's coming out ok, and I really hope it has a good result, because this picture could determine how motivated I am to paint more portraits in the future, and I really want to be able to add color to my portraits (I'm also going to try colored pencil sometime in the future.)

Thanks for understanding!
And if you don't, well. Phooie. I'm tryin.

Happy Birthday (once again)

To MATTHEW!!!
(can you tell it's birthday season yet?)

I'm expecting to be asked why ^this^ picture was put on here : P

I love you!

Deep Fried... Seahorse?!

I laughed, semi-seriously considered selling it on e-bay, then ate it (I was quite hungry.)


[10:53pm EDIT: Matt hadn't seen this lovely piece of meat until it was posted on the blog, as he was at band practice when I ate. Let's just say I have been reprimanded for NOT selling it on e-bay ;)]

Party Balloons!

Happy 50th Birthday Pastor Anthony!

So, alas, these are the only pictures I have of PA's 50th Birthday Party, my camera batteries died after this. Too bad I didn't remember the backup batteries I keep in my purse. It's great being prepared, when you remember you're prepared.