Still working on this. Some day I'll finish it
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Not dead got a full time job I'm actually... enjoying??? But it's also physically exhausting. I'm in bed by 8 most nights.
ON THE PLUS SIDE it's not at all mentally exhausting because I don't have to deal with customers!
I'm a blue collar union worker and I'm loving it. 馃槀
(It's a very tiny company, too, and very related to my interests, which also helps.)
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I love this frame even more now 馃
Definitely going to go with some distressed and light silver leafing in a few days once the paint is fully dry.
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This post isn't about Nadja, I just wanted to share this pic because it makes me happy and I love my cat so much. 馃樆馃槏
So recently (within the last three months) I realized that I'd been struggling with my art for so long because I was trying to be something I'm not. It turns out I never was and never will be a digital artist. Through therapy I discovered that it's just too much for my perfectionism and ADHD, that infinite layers and undo-s (undoes? undies??) paralyze me. I can erase forever without worrying about ruining paper or wasting supplies, but without any boundaries nothing was ever finished. Hell, most things were hardly started! It could always be "more perfect." I was trying to change my style to be more like what I see online, but it wasn't working.
It wasn't really until I'd finished the piece for my sister that I realized that, even though I'd sobbed my eyes out several times while working on it, there was something there still, something I'd been missing with digital art. When I paint with watercolors, there's something else there that's spontaneous, something I can't control, and that was leading to some really cool results! When I painted the wolf for my brother in law, I was actually excited to see what the paint would do. Playing around gave me an awesome effect in the background that I would have overworked to death had it been digital.
All that is to say, I've accepted that I'm analog. Or, maybe a bit of a hybrid in a way since I use my iPad for sketching and then transfer that to paper. Definitely not anywhere near fully digital though. (That's not to say I'm not good at certain KINDS of digital art [my catalog of Sims creations speaks to that!] but yeah definitely way more analog.)
My brain reset...
Edit: WAIT THERE WAS MORE!
Now that I'm getting back to being more comfortable creating art again, I'm going to be pushing myself to do more of the art I know is still inside me somewhere. Ghost Lady is the first attempt at trying to stop being so damned afraid of letting my darker side come out. I'm so annoyed that I'm so scared (OF WHAT?! being mocked??) to be who I am and let that show.
Good thing I'm in therapy.
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New project: Ghost Lady for my fancy frame
Going to redo the frame in black with distressed leafing of some kind! Probably silver because that's what I have at home and also because it'll probably fit the eventual color scheme of the painting better.
Nadja helping.
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Juniper is complete!
With this piece I discovered Two Things:
1) If I do these for commission, any pieces with full backgrounds are going to cost about $36282748 because holy crap was that inexplicably a bigger pain in my ass than any other background I've done recently.
2) Time for me to try gouache or at least stop being so damned stingy with the watercolor. I've NEVER had so much trouble getting my colors to be vibrant!
At any rate, my niece loves it and that's all that matters. 馃挏
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I started shutting down again recently but was able to force myself to sit down the other day and do anything art related. These two are now ready to paint.
The girls made sure I didn't flake. 馃槏馃樆
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Finished art for my mom and brother in law.
My brother in law is over the moon about his painting! I was a little concerned at first because he's notoriously difficult to shop for, but I at least had something of an idea for the subject since his room at the lake house had a couple wolves in it. He absolutely loves it, though, and is going to hang it where everyone can see it. All his coworkers want him to bring it in so they can see it, too, which makes me feel a weird gooey mess of emotions.
And now I'm off to go work on the next few pieces!
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"Draw me like one of your French cats."
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She really is my therapy kitten 馃挏
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