Wow, it's been a long time

Nearly right after my last post my mom ended up in a coma and had to re learn who to walk. So, my blog became not so important.
So, this is me, trying to get back into the swing. First up, is the mural that I worked on while mom was sick and recovering. So, I don't remember all the things I worked on, because I can't fine the notebook that I kept for the mural. I do remember that I did almost all of the stairs panel, I worked on the girl in the red jacket, the black and white bird with the yellow breast, and the girl in the last panel and the bird that is resting on her arm. This was created in a Juvenile Hall and was supposed to represent life is a bunch of choices, balancing, loosing, gaining things. I don't really know how well the message will get though, but we did the best we could trying to stay away from gang symbols/colors and not be just be too 'little kid'. Here is the newspaper article that was written on the whole thing: http://www.dailyrepublic.com/news/education-news/juvenile-hall-sees-mural-dedication/

Finals Are Finally Over..

For this semester at least. And actually they were done yesterday for me, but I was so wiped, I did a few chores then went to bed early. Blah..And you know how you come down sick the week of or the week after finals? I haven't become sick(yet), but mom came down with summer flu. Just when you think your out of flu season.. Anyway, onward to art!

This is the cover from my final. It took a ridiculous amount of time to get done. And lots of stuff I had learned. Like for some reason, part of a dark blue gray turned bright blue with a vivid light layer over the top of it..but the rest of it stayed dark gray? That lead to some color adjusting that I'm still not sure how I got to.. I also pulled back on Gem's expression, cause Dad thought she was angry at the cat.. but then again, he always reads expressions wrong..so *shrug*.

Some Habits aren't habit forming..

Ok, So I haven't updated this blog in a while.. I would love to say that I have been run off my feet with activity and doing exciting things. Well, the truth is, I haven't. I changed over internet service so that I can actually do things during the day and not have to wait for the cover of darkness in order to download anything or do much of anything. I got a sewing needle broke off in my foot and had to have it removed in the ER, fun. And I have mostly been doing housework. How un-grande of me.

Also, I've been having.. problems. Now when I started writing in the blog, I sort of vowed that I wouldn't talk about it because I wanted people to know my artwork and not my disability. I was also told by the dean of art that maybe I should try not telling people, and figured I should try it someplace where I wasn't obligated to tell someone.. like not a classroom. Well, that's just really not going to happen. It doesn't define me, but I can't deny that is impacts my day to day life. So the problem that I've been having, that has been keeping from getting to drawing is.. I have had a lowering in my visual acuity. Just got a little bit. I had gone off my herbal supplements and had to build them back up in my system. I'm doing better and seeing as well as I can. Since I am legally blind, there's only so good it can get. Anyway, feast your eyes on my practice from reference photos!

Have a great weekend, I know I'm going to! I'm taking my Dad to Weird Al for his birthday!

Wiz-A-Meal

This was supposed to be a T-shirt design based on Retro Futurism. Think The Jetsons. Anyway, the idea behind this was an ad for Wiz-A-Meal, a full meal in a can. An aerosol can. And yeah, I know the jello is at the wrong angle, I'll be fixing that. I'd still love to make this into a t-shirt I think it'll be quite fun.

Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition...

Or rain/snow on Memorial Day weekend. But surprise, surprise, it's here for at least the second year in a row. And it's supposed to be 90 by Wednesday, fun. All aboard the crazy weather train!
Update on Sheba: She has started asking to go out. Only this morning her asking turned into demanding and her demanding was so frantic that she fell out of the window and into the fireplace tools. So the unhappy girl had to stay in under observation. Very spoiled little girl.

This is one of my favorite paintings, called Leaping Lizards. I dubbed the lizard/gecko things as My Little Pony-Lizards. I made them to sort of stick into silly or not well thought out situations. In other words they are sort of the reptilian version of the Three Stooges. I also get a strangle little thrill when I put Michelangelo like legs on lizard creatures. There is a lot more I want to do with these guys. They are so much fun to paint. 

Perhaps I spoke too soon...

The wind is blowing out of the southwest and there is a winter weather advisory in the mountains. Do I hear the tinkling sounds of another Junuary coming?  I just really hope it doesn't stunt our tomatoes, we planted a few new black varieties and I really want to see them produce to their fullest. Oh well, got to love global weather chaos.
Anyway, the bug bites from two days ago sparked off a fibromylgia/flare episode. Mom and I are eyeing the new chair as the cause of the bites... it's going to get sprayed real soon with Raid.
In other news, my baby feral kitten Sheba(who is almost a year old by now..) escaped outside again. She has trouble with being scared and the more scared she is the more she doesn't recognize family. However she also doesn't know how to use the potty outside, which is what brought her in last time she got out. So she escaped outside today and we settled in to wait for her to miss her Tidy Cat. Around noon she pops into the house just behind Cosette. So now she seems to be able to come in when she wants know. Though who knows when the next time she is going out, because Sheba was passed out for the rest of the day and why anyone opened the door outside she went running like she was pursued by hounds.  I think she'll stay in for awhile..
Tonight's sketch is of one of the races/critters in my story. These are little weasel/reptile things called Cobalds. They are sort of the pack rats of the magical world. They love collecting anything 'shiny'. They also have a whole society built around trap making. If you make really good traps, you have status. If you fail to avoid traps on a regular basis, you status starts to take a hit.  If you fall in your own traps, you lose a lot more status. It's a fairly uncomplicated system.  

Herald of the Season

Ah, it's summer already. My, my.. I don't even remember spring this year.  But you can definitively tell that it is summer; the crop plants have been put in the ground(or container), corn is starting to go down in price, Larry's fruit and veggie stand is set to open in a few weeks, and the bugs have come out.  I donno why I am such a tasty treat for them, but unless I take a chlorinated dip everyday, the little bugger can't seem to stay away. So my latest meeting with the little creepy crawlies left me with bite marks all down my back and the inability to sit up with out being in intense pain. Which of course lead to me sleeping half the day. I did get some stuff done.. just not artsy stuff.. Mom and I found out that that old blue recliner that was starting to look sort of broken, was broken. So we took off to the local better than Salvation Army thrift shop and picked up a really nice bright red recliner. Very pretty.

So to spread more artsy goodness, there is another older piece of work.  It was originally a really large acrylic painting but never quite worked right as I had painted it.  However I needed an ad for Graphic Design and re-purposed the image. I ran it through some filters, played with the color and ta da, the hills look like they are aflame in golden slender. Honestly, I like this version so much too. It's sometimes hard to tell but the black thing is a medallion with it's chain draped around behind the dagger. The medallion had a stylized scorpion design on it.