Welcome home

I'm working on a welcome home banner for the sub wives here. All I have is a thumbnail for now, but I'll have the line drawing done soon. I'm glad I get to use this as a school project.

It's been a while, hiking sketch

So last time I posted I mentioned that I wasn't sure about having this be a painting a day, because I was cramming in crappy paintings. Now that I'm in school, it's definitely not going to work. I'm not a fine artist, I'm an illustrator, and any daily paintings I do are usually working towards a studio painting, so I decided to transform this into a sketchblog instead. I always enjoy sketchblogs, so I figured if anyone liked my work, my might enjoy mine as much as I've enjoyed other artists' in the past.

So today I went hiking at sunrise. Joe's been sick so he couldn't come with me this time. The hike was easy, but the wind was really strong. I had brought my gouache and watercolors with me to do sketchbook paintings along the way, and I did this one relatively quickly with my little water color set while the wind threatened to whip my sketchbook out of my hands and the water out of my cup. It was a bit challenging to get out. I didn't do any more after this, and I thought it was shit until I came home. I actually like it quite a bit, and now I'm mad at myself for not doing more. I'll have to remember that my little paintings look better than I think they do :)

Hiatus

I'm taking a brief Hiatus from the blog. Part of this is so that I can reorganize my life, starting with my still half packed up house. I need to spend some serious time going through these boxes and organizing everything, which may take up most of my time. The other reason is because I'm just not giving 100 percent to this blog, and I really want to. I want to take a break, at most until the new year starts, and think of some new ideas, get my paints out of boxes and vary things up a bit, taking the time during the day to really spend time on each painting. There's not much point in doing a painting a day if they're really quickly colored sketches. I want to rise to this challenge and really do it. I know sometimes I wish I could take some time and go through a process for a painting, and I can, but I have to do one full painting a day, and then I can start doing preliminary work for a bigger project. Until my life is a little more organized, I'll have to say, See you in 2011!

tomorrow is christmas eve

Today's painting. I still haven't gotten the hang of painting in the daytime. I always wait until evening, but I don't think it can be helped right now. I've got to finish unpacking and clean the house, and it feels more important than my paintings, so my daily schedule reflects that. This painting is more of a rough, and I may continue to work on this tomorrow to make it a finished piece. It's inspired by a stock image on DA and by a specific piece by Loish on DA. Since this is a learning blog for me I think it's ok to take direct inspiration, as long as I give credit. Already well, until tomorrow! Merry christmas :)

no painting today

I'm not going to do a painting today. Yea I'm skipping a day after only going through three, but I'm just too tired. I did physical therapy today, and it seemed so easy when I was doing it, but it really wore me out. The rest of the day I couldn't get myself to do anything. I really gotta get this motivation thing in control. Tomorrow is another day right? Night for now.

Therapy art

I did a kind of therapy painting today. This is a little more artsy fartsy than what I normally do, and it's done quickly, but I've been struggling mentally, and thought this would help, and it did. I've been paranoid about suddenly having a heart attack or something. I find lately my anxiety has been high, but I haven't been changing my habits to become healthier. I JUST ate a big burger from ruby tuesdays and than worried about my heart. So this represents the path I need to be on. My head is above water, and it feels logical, it feels comforting and the light above me feels like the easier way to go, but the reality, is that not only am I fine, and my body is fine, but I need to dive into the seemingly scary waters of self discipline to find a world that's much better than my own. I could be in a cool, refreshing and easy going paradise (in real terms, a reality where I have a fit body, I'm happy and my art is improved) but instead I keep my head above water, because I don't want to drown. It's the illusion of my brain right now. Funny how our subconsious works. Ok, enough explanation I think. Enjoy the weird, artsy fartsy digital spot illustration. PS: I hate art like this :)

12-21-10

Today I decided to do something having to do with the lunar eclipse. Again, this one is very quickly done, I really need to spend more time on these in the future if I'm going to improve. Anyway, tomorrow I think I'll try doing this in the morning instead of at night, I think it'll help.