I will finish this today

I cannot give a time, but today I WILL poast my Trilobite piece. The only thing keeping me from finishing it is me and I will NOT hold myself back any longer! (it does help to have all music and no tv sounds though, thats taken care of)

DAR stamp design

MY DAR STAMP! (Daughters of American Revolution society)
so, every year our art class takes part in the contest and every time its a different theme. This time the theme was Reserving American History. so at first I thought of drawing a design with a history teacher holding a text book in one arm and gesturing with the other making look like he's really into whatever historic story he's telling the students and in the background is a scene of the founding fathers writing the constitution. didn't turn out too great. Then I thought of a picture my friend Hannah J took while she was at UArts that had the liberty bell in it and figured eh, I'll grab a quote and go with it. (most artists advise against making artwork based on photographs because you don't have much power in controlling the composition and other factors like lighting but at this point I really needed the darn thing done and Hannah's an awesome photographer so i wasn't too concerned) and to my surprise it came out pretty awesome [THANK YOU HANNAH!] but it still didn't really fit the theme so I stuck a tourist snapping a photo in it which gave it some spacial balance

and yes I know I have no sense in fonts
In other news: my crinoid should be done fri or sat and I'm going to be interviewed at Rowan this Sunday. ironically that's the same day NJ's been promised arctic chill and we've been advised to stay home and drink hot cocoa :P I'm sure it will be fun anyway

LETS GET THIS SHOW ON THE ROAD

motivational post, this is a little view of the colors I'm using for the crinoids I sketched and posted previously. can't seem to get very far though. maybe i'm feeling pressured to keep it light(?) anyways, i'll try to finish it sometime this week

sneak peek (haha and the spell check doesn't recognize what Crinoid is)

This is the final sketch of my next project which will be color pencil maybe accented with some water color (still working that out). Its based off another of my dads fossil collection called a Crinoid(aka Sea Lilly), and it's one of the most interesting  because the earth pushed the crinoids in all different directions almost giving you a different point of view to every side of them  and i think there are three different species (depending whether the octopus looking one is the same as the biggest one or if it looks like an octopus all around)

me hermana

First, a lot of this is cutt off because the scanner wasn't big enough for the whole thing, there's a bit more blanket, ending just before the knee and you see most of the corner and arm of the couch.
Second, this is a picture based off a sketch I made of my sister which came out relatively good, but the longer I looked at it the more I began to get the impression that she was sad in her sleep... which kinda bugs me...
well what-ever I have something done now and I'm almost finished with that still life I started and quit about a month ago so thats good

you can expect a post sometime around thanks giving or this weekend showing the still life from a month ago and another one I started last week at school complete (hopefully) and an update on a new fossil project I'm starting (it's another crinoid :3)

I would so much love to be done with it

I have no idea why, but the scanner made this look greener than it actually is. There is sandy yellows and browns that don't mix with the blue to make the entire thing green (just thought you ought to know that) also, these things are fun, but this messed up my one piece/ week goal :( and I realize that the composition's a little screwy, but maybe I can get away with it by making more hallo-y type mark things to make it look like rock layers or something :/

Ammonite, pastell experiment

This is a mixed media experiment with tan, brown and blue oil pastell and water color splashed underneath. With the ammonite (shell fish fissile) in front of me, I began to scratch out the pastell to make the pattern. It was a progressive learning experiment and I'm trying to focus on what the professors at Arcadia, UArts, Kutstown, Rowan, Marywood etc. advised me to do when I went to national portfolio day which included to draw BIG, be creative/ original, and have loooooots of STRONG work. What I gather from this is that I'm pretty good at this technique, but it's tiny (one professor said very bluntly that having small work meant I had small ideas) I don't know how this would work out as a big piece, but I'll make my future pastel works as big as I can manage along with big figure drawing WITH FACES and get in some big still lifes :3

also, it's a three day week so I'll try to muster up a couple works during my free time