it's a harlequin romance

T he theme of our next project for drawing class is "love". I was rather stumped at how to represent this, because it has such a dangerous potential for extreme cheese. I decided to go and pick up a bunch of Romance novels from Salvation Army as a starting point, and I'm so pleased I did. I have povided here a few that I scanned, they are a delight. And if you think the covers are atrocious, just imagine the contents...

Let's wait.... update

U pdate!
[Bahh Glare on the top half]
Some have said this painting looks like a festival, some have called it vair creepy. My painting teacher said I must have an interesting brain. (Compliment?)

let's wait for our bodies to age

T hrough the forest
Down to your grave
Where the birds wait
And the tall grasses wave
They do not
know you anymore

Dear shadow alive and well
How can the body die
You tell me everything
Anything true
-Fleet Foxes

Cut, then Paste, then Paint

I 've recently taken to painting from collages. You'll probably recognize this one, the reference to my most recent painting:

I've made a few more, and have already started painting from one of them... (the first one)

Hamilton

T wo weeks ago we had a little comic-booking seminar with a guest teacher, Amy Lockhart, in my drawing class (unfortunately not in time to be helpful for my last project). She showed us some animations and some of her own work, and her favourite comic books, and then we did a little sketch of our own. We were to start with a character design ( a few views of the character) and then work the panels off of a single sentence, ie. I was writing an exam, and my pencil broke. I did a few little character ideas, but my favourite was dear Hamilton, the Farmer's Melancholy Son. He was doing his chores, when he got egged.

And if you think he's got mummy/daddy issues, you'd be right.

Theatrics and gender

Full View, 13 panels

1-3. (Are you nervous?)

4-5. (Time to get ready)

6-7. (What makes us this way? GET ON STAGE!)

9-10. The performance of a lifetime... between the curtains it always works out

11-12. APPLAUSE!... But what's the powder hiding?

I guess underneath we're all just naked.

Under da SEA

C ostumes!! Villlllllllains!!
Also, check out our SPOOOOOOOKY apartment

Almost doneee

Draw draw draw

M ore panels.
The plot is pretty ambiguous the start with, but I suppose it's even harder to guess it in the order I've been posting the images!!

More Graphics

I have been working relentlessly(ish) toward my drawing crit, which is quickly approaching this friday....
Here are a few more installments!

By-the-by, check out my friend/ fellow artist/ roommate's (Ariana's) newest painting --> http://cruddysugarlemonade.blogspot.com/2010/10/violet-b.html--> It is of me, being really beautiful.

SEA WITCH

N ormally I don't post anything but art BUT I feel that my Halloween costume this year counts as such. I am rather proud, and also glad I'm done so I can accomplish other things (hem hem school).... Can't wait to see what it will look like with the hair and makeup!

Stacks of snacks



oil, 40x50 (I think)



I 've continued with my mushrooms in this painting..it's a very earhty-tone forest painting, although right now it looks a bit under-the-sea. I'm trying to make them light and fluffy like crinalin in this one.

Graphics

B eginnings of my next drawing project. It will hopefully be a wall-comic, as in, the panels will tile the wall like a giant page in a book. Debating whether or not to leave the bubbles blank in the end.

Odd Doodlin'

A lil' party to jump-start October

Mushroom Table

F orest snacks?

Bugging out

 T weedle dee, tweedle beetle


Sitting 1



Sitting 2

This is my first painting for (guess) painting class this year! It's 20x28" (I think), oil on canvas.
Still in progress. We showed up to class that morning and the professor announced we were not doing the model painting as planned, and basically we were to forge ahead on whatever we wanted.
 I had nothing prepared, so I just grabbed my sketchbook and started this painting, essentially based on a doodle (You may recognize this beetle character-thing from earlier works).

I really don't mind it. It's kind of funky. I'm afraid I'm loosing the lightness and looseness though that it had at the start, which is a common issue for me when it comes to painting. It's a very spontaneous sort of thing, though, so I'll just keep working on the little guy and see where we go. I'll scan that sketch later.

Gulping Guppies

2008

T he first class, we were assigned to re-do an older drawing that we didn't like.

I generally hate really by-the-book assignments like this, but what can you do.

I picked the above one, which I'd given to a friend, which I didn't like so much... it's just kind of quick. I liked the nosey, mouthy premise, though, and did a more compositionally resolved and refined drawing of it.

life paintin'

A s usual, we began the semester with painting from the model. I decided to go with acrylic (a medium I haven't life painted with since grade 10), it turned out alright
(Although the woman looks kind of manly). We used the full 3.5 hours to paint the same pose, and if I'd had more time I would have tried to refine things like her hands and feet a lot more... the canvas is 20x28" or something, so I had to move fairly quickly.
Overall, a nice little warm-up.

Make it FUNKY....

T his is from the end of last year... I forgot to document it before now!

Mr. Funky is part of my 'pickled' series.

Hello!

Back in MTL!
........ and back to productivity.

We made some lovely paper flowers and hung them around the apartment :)

Fungi Follow-up

Mushaboom

Y ou may recall my earlier ink/watercolour drawing of very similar mushroom stacks (or you can see it if you scroll down a bit, or click here). I've been wanting to continue my fungus fascination on canvas, and this is the start of my newest painting.  I really worked up the bottom half of the piece today, I'm really happy with it so far, especially the funky beetle with the flower growing from his back...

Garage Garbage Galore

S neak peek of a drawing I'm in the midst of working on. It's quite large (don't have the exact dimensions, too lazy to get up and check), and my standard pen & ink & watercolour. It's completion will involve more images of old furniture, lots more, and perhaps some layers of rice paper.

C-Horsies

T his is an ink drawing from about a month ago, for a friend who had requested seahorses. I looked at random pictures off the internet for the horses, and my previous sketch for the background.

I must say, I was pretty fond of the line drawing before I put colour in...

So here's the finished product. Unfortunately there's a glare on the right side of the image, but you get the idea. I must say, I think I liked it better without colour, but she seemed to like it anyway!

Two days at the Bottom of the Ocean

T his is a detailed little drawing from my sketchbook. I was looking at an article in an old National Geographic - the sketch came in handy for the seahorse drawing I was commissioned a few days later.

judging completed

I finished up this painting a while ago, and finally photographed with the new camera!
Not my favourite work, but I had fun finishing it with scribbles of oil pastels on top on the dried paint.