“I will strengthen you”

First, I hope all your thanksgiving’s were amazing! Mine sure was. It was nice to just spend lots of time with the fam. and not run around trying to see everyone from home like I normally do. I did get to see one of my best friends Ann, whom I’ve known my entire life, which was AWESOME! It’s been awhile since we’ve gotten together, and sadly we go to school less than an hour away from eachother. I also went to see a movie with my best friend Walt, and that was about all I did! Oh, I also took a trip to the Dick Blick Outlet store with my dad, which leads me into my next part.

I got new canvas’ and this new sand texture detail stuff. So yesterdsay amid my HOURS of staring at my computer doing homework I needed a break so I wanted to play with this sand stuff, so I put some on a canvas’ I had left over from a PACE event and then just let it dry to see what happens. haha. Then a few hours later, I decided I wanted to try painting text with a paint brush and just experiment with that. So thus, this tiny painting, Its kind of hard to see the texture but that’s okay. It’s nothing special, but painting the text was a lot easier than I thought it would be, now I just need more practice!

Sorry for the poor picture. I chose to paint Isaiah 41:9-10 because I’ve had it stuck in my head for a few days now and love it, and that’s, that. Just thought I’d share quick!

I’d love to hear what you think!

Love!

Painting Salvage

Well… if you read my previous post you would know that I was SO excited about the way this project was going… then I added the text and it went all down hill. I will spare you of the details, but lets just say this have NOT been my week. I used a oil-based pen to apply the text. I didn’t trust myself with a paint brush AT ALL, so I went with the pen… part of me wishes I would have risked the paint brush. Anyways. Here’s what it looked like. The text is just to shiny, and so it stands out to much. You can’t really tell in this picture because I moved the light so it wouldn’t be shiny. lol. The text also bothers me because I think the handwriting is bad, but it should be, because if it was perfect it wouldn’t fit with what it was saying. I just have always not liked my handwriting so that’s all that is about. SO, I took a trip to blick and the scrapbooking store and bought some stuff to hopefully help me salvage it. So I added these cute little brown squares, some blue and green buttons and some flowers. I def think it helps. The big flower in the middle is the biggest part, that empty space was really bothering me so that makes it look so much better. I like it better now, but part of me wishes I would have never added the text… but hey, there’s a reason I’m in school right?

 

Your thoughts? Am I crazy and it really looks fine? Is it still horrible? (hehe) I wanna hear it all! <3 .

I’m on a painting kick…

I’m not really on a kick… I LOVE to paint, I just finally have a bunch of assignments that give me the excuse to paint! Which makes me very happy! My next project is well underway. I’m going home this weekend (YAY!) so I had to get a head-start on it since I wont be able to work on it this weekend. I’m really loving the way this one is turning out as well So here’s a sneak peak into the first 3-4 steps.

Again, the quality is kind of paint because the lighting sucks in my apartment, but you get the gist The next step is to add the text which will read “to be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting” by e.e. cummings. I haven’t totally figured out how I’m going to apply this yet… whether I’m going to tough it out with a paint brush, use a paint marker or something else… We shall see.

 

I hope you all have fantastic weekends! I can’t wait to be home and relax (and see some pretty fantastic people too!)

Grammar of Ornament

So I just finished my Design History project and I LOVE IT! It’s probably my favorite project I’ve ever done, especially painting speaking.

We had to take an idea from a specific time period and re-create or create a project with that theme. I took my inspiration from a page in the “grammar of ornament”. I have always loved the ornate look. It’s amazing the things people come up with. So I took this original… I added color to it. So first I had to find my colors, and tape everything off to get the perfect squares and paint the first layer on. This took awhile painting perfect lines and I had to apply two coats. Then I sketched on the designs, some are these originals, some are modified, and some are new. Then I used an oil based paint marker. This was the longest part. I bet it took me about 10 hours to paint in all the designs. I had to be really careful not to mess up or get it on my hands because I don’t have the stuff to clean oil based paint (which can’t be washed away with water and soap) so it was all of drawing and waiting to dry etc. etc. So enough of my rambling… Here’s the final product… the picture is kind of bad, but just as I was going to take a different one my camera died So when I take a new one I’ll fix it. seriously, I love it.