flaps n tassels

Nyssa is in Charge

2011-07-29T14:13:00.000-07:00

Summer Cicada

2011-07-29T14:12:00.002-07:00

I painted my banjo instead of playing it

2011-07-29T14:12:00.001-07:00

More Trees

2011-07-29T14:11:00.002-07:00

Watercolor and Ink

2011-07-29T14:11:00.001-07:00

A Tree

2011-07-29T14:10:00.000-07:00

Fish

2011-07-29T14:09:00.000-07:00

Old Nudie Pics

2011-07-29T14:07:00.000-07:00

more cats

2011-07-29T14:06:00.000-07:00

Old Cat Paintings

2011-07-29T14:04:00.000-07:00

Dog Sketches

2011-07-29T14:00:00.000-07:00

The Benevolent Village Dog

2009-11-18T08:51:00.001-08:00

Schnozhance!!

Okay, I know what part of my head this one came from. It started when I read a since-lost news story about a child in India that had to marry the town dog to overcome some curse or other. This image immediately popped in my head and subsequently my sketchbook. Then I remembered seeing that dog's face somewhere, naturally I looked to cuteoverload.com and found a dog with the exact same expression. Somehow that happy dog just stuck in my head. Maybe because my own dog only glowers at me.... but anyway.... Thus the creation of The Benevolent Village Dog!

I don't really know what part of my head this came from.....

2009-11-18T08:50:00.001-08:00

They are just the best of friends.

Rainy Day Snail

2009-11-18T08:45:00.000-08:00

Dog Sketches

2009-11-17T13:37:00.000-08:00

bubble pup
is it clean? probably not

nyssa sheds way too much

nyssa doesn't want you touchin' her stuff

itsahoundog arooo

KORA:

kora barks too much

kora thinks she is people
and she thinks she can eat anything

sketchbook animals

2009-11-17T13:35:00.000-08:00

Kitty

royal lion.
the frame and pillowy diamonds are a bit wonky so they may go

Bird

rainbow bird
no there is nothing wrong with your monitor

Horse

it's just a horse
of course

Nyssa does like naps

2009-11-17T10:12:00.000-08:00

Nyssa does not like buffalo flavor.....

2009-11-17T10:11:00.000-08:00

enhance.... enhance.... enhance....edit: I do not like how the dog ended up looking on this here internets, so here is Nyssa... ENHANCED!

Nyssa does not like her raincoat......

2009-11-17T10:09:00.000-08:00

Look it's me

2009-11-06T12:52:00.000-08:00

Trauma

2008-10-18T13:58:00.001-07:00

"Fair Day" 2006
36x24 acrylic on canvas

"The Best Dog Ever- Hrothgar Series #1" 2006
18x24 acrylic on canvas

I am totally traumatized. I let someone talk me into selling the two paintings I said I would never sell. He was persuasive and seemed like he'd care about them. He put up with my haggling and he wanted them really bad. It was flattering. I still feel weird but I also feel agitated with myself because I never realized how attached I was to them. I guess I should look at it like pruning a flowery bush to force better flowers to grow? I guess? If I want to be all sappy about it? I could also look at it like rent :)
These terrible pictures were taken with my crap camera. Purchaser said he would let me go over and take new pictures if I ever get a nice camera in my hands, so that I can get some prints of it.

kittys from teh zoo

2007-06-04T10:51:00.000-07:00

I love the cougars at the zoo. They'll start to stare at me when the crowd moves through. And they're at the most comfortable spot to sit, so I guess that's why we ever noticed each other.

Thank you cards

2007-06-04T10:42:00.000-07:00

Well, since my relatives were very generous for my graduation I decided they all deserved a hand painted card in return. Although once I finished these I got even more cards so I have more to do. I'm lucky they care. I'm stuck though, on which animal to give to whom, since I don't really want to just repeat any. But of course the drunken monkey goes to my brother.

A sketch

2007-03-27T12:09:00.000-07:00

So despite technical and life difficulties I'm here. And due to technical difficulties (ie: dysfunctional camera and unreliable scanner source) I havn't gotten much up here. I'm finally figuring out my fancy laptop and wacom thingy... y'know, I'm not scared to touch them anymore.
I've had a few small jobs, my favourite being a llama painting that I never got a copy of because I got excited about giving it to the llama owner. But I have the reference pictures still (oops. kinda.) and really want to do some more llama paintings.

Anyway. I have a sketch. It is for the logo of my parent's hobby turned obsession horse farm. Yeah, yeah, stuff for parents doesn't count. But they are regulars in the arab horse circuit in Arkansas, so even that much attention is appreciated. Besides, I'm going to paint it on their trailer (whether they like it or not) so that I can get some use out of where my tuition money went one year. And by the name of the farm I can see where my bad sense of humour came from. The name? "Snowball's Chance Farm" .... or something like that.

On to the sketch. I just quickly did this in photoshop with my wacom<3 but will have to move it over to my pc to work on it in illustrator (technical difficulty #4) so it will be all nice and vectory. Of course there I will obsess for days to create the perfect flame/mane/puddle wavy lines. I'm very unhappy with the puddle but figured it'd be easier to fix in illustrator. I feel successful with the horse silhouette but I'm afraid I may have to put more of a dish in the head to make it look more like an arab. Even though I think that would look silly... but those horses are silly looking anyway. I always think the drawings of arabs look fake and over done and then I look at the actual horses and realize they look fake and over done too. My parents horses are all fatheaded though, so maybe I won't dish the face more.
Suggestions are welcome. But I'm certain this will be done before Friday, for the nagging is getting unbearable. But the pay is nice. I might demand that sort of pay from now on. "Yes Mr. Art director, the payment will be slipping me some money as I need it and two dozen snickerdoodles. Thank you."

BFA show

2006-12-06T13:14:00.000-08:00

Here's some shots of my piece from my craptastic digital camera.

You can barely tell how big is.

for sarah

2006-12-05T19:48:00.002-08:00

found this in the ol' advanced drawing sketchbook

pink. hot.

2006-12-05T19:48:00.001-08:00

baroo?

2006-12-05T19:47:00.000-08:00

chester McFizzywig had a bad day

2006-12-05T19:46:00.000-08:00

digging through old sketchbooks some more

2006-12-05T19:45:00.000-08:00

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2006-12-05T19:34:00.002-08:00

let sleeping dogs dream of squirrel meat and gravy

2006-12-05T19:34:00.001-08:00

a nysa muse helps with brain storming

2006-12-05T19:33:00.001-08:00

my fav sketchbook page

2006-12-05T19:32:00.001-08:00

studies for bfa show

2006-12-05T19:29:00.000-08:00

some images from my bfa show sketchbook

2006-12-05T19:18:00.000-08:00

2006-12-01T18:00:00.000-08:00

Here's some early shots of my unfinished senior pieces. well.. it's finished now but wasn't at the time of these photos. i think i'll come back and edit these sentences later.
they are 5 1/2 ft water colour and gouache pieces.

And the closeup shots. I'm going to get this proffessionally photographed when I have them both together again. And maybe one now. And it's rumored that I may get these framed for christmas *__*

2006-10-23T23:40:00.000-07:00

Here's a few watercolours from last semester. Mostly from zoo visits. Some not. Here's a couple of cheeky little birds from the tropical bird house. They'd just gotten fed and didn't mind pictures. I'm probably lucky that they didn't peck my eyes out. They didn't have the Kukaburas during my watercolour class, so I think I'll go back with my watercolours and make some nice Kukabura watercolours. Especially if they are eating their dead mice. And here's my feet with awsome fuzzy sock power.

More zoo study work.

2006-10-18T14:13:00.000-07:00

Skitters the professional art critic says:
"I like the use of color and the composition, but it could use some more tonal variation."

Of course this is just a study for a larger piece, lord knows when that will get done. Hopefully soon.

Skitters: "Hey, show them that beautiful piece you did of me in the jungle. Go on, it's such a perfect portrait. I think the audience will love it."

Yes well, here is a dangerous Jaguar from the zoo... or Skitters, depends on who you talk to. And if you're talking to my cat you're crazier than me, and I feel bad for you. But he is quite the conversationalist.

More sketchbook work from my zoo studies to come. And eventually some bar scene sketchbook pages. It's just rather hard to squeeze my sketchbooks onto scanners, so I'm trying the whole picture taking approach.

Nysa Like Ball

2006-10-09T22:41:00.000-07:00

My very first print of my very first copperplate etching ever. I have gone in and done a lot more work to it since, although there are alot of mistakes that are just bad drawing. But I was really more concerned with figuring the whole process out. It was a bit overwhelming at first, but now I'm quite excited. Hopefully there will be a finished print of this and a finished colograph print ready to upload by Wednesday.

Bar Sketchbook

2006-10-09T22:34:00.000-07:00

A few sketches and watercolours from my bar-crawl sketchbook. I think I need to work more on scanning watercolours, the scanner did not seem to pick up the colour very well. Maybe I just need to find a different scanner to use. Scanners displease me.

from Zoo series sketchbook

2006-10-09T22:30:00.000-07:00

Sketches from my zoo series sketchbook.
The first is my exploration in abstracting zoo photographs.
The second is a Kookaburra singing his triumph over his frozen-mice lunch.

Both are drawn in ink.

2006-08-30T18:05:00.000-07:00

Here's some doodles of Nysa that I did in class the other day. Isn't she just the sweetest puppy ever?

dorktastic

2006-08-30T10:09:00.000-07:00

Okay, this username was taken because it's all tied in with google. Dur. So yeah, it was taken by me.
So now I have an art blog. Time to go find art to put in it.
Here's a picture of Nysa for now.