Vyla

This was my first portrait of someone that I actually knew. I was super nervous to start it and knew that it had to be just right. So you can imagine my relief when people would look over my shoulder and ask, "Is that Vyla?"

Jinkies! I lost my glasses!

I finished this drawing while watching the Von Trapp family (the real family AND the cast) on Oprah. Two fun things at once. I declare it a good day!

The Fiddler (not) on the Roof

I haven't been able to do much of my drawing lately with all the art projects but I did manage to get this guy done AND read my book for an hour too!

He Rocks in the Treetops All Day Long

I can now say that I have designed and drawn out a tessellation. Once was good for me. Once and only once. I do think it looks kinda neat but it took so long to make and it was sorta boring since it was all the same thing. But anyway, I had to do it. Art homework.

100king to Improve 4/100

I thought it would be neat if I showed the development of this portrait in the 4 stages I drew it in. There are things that I don't like about it, such as her eyes being too far apart and the fact that she looks bald, but as a whole I'm pretty pleased with it!

100king to Improve 3/100

Here he is. The finished project. In the darkest spots I used charcoal but everything else was done with my handy-dandy mechanical pencil. He smells nice too! (I had to spray him with hair spray so the charcoal wouldn't all rub off)

100king to Improve 2.5/100

I love this man. I don't know who he is, but I love him. Most of all I love his face. This is the face that changed my opinion about wrinkles. I love them! I can't wait to get them! They give a face character and it's so much more fun to draw a face full of wrinkles and laugh lines than a smooth super model. If you draw one of each and set them next to each other, which one do you think that people are going to love? The most beautiful one, of course! The one full of wrinkles!

He's a WIP, I really need to get back to work on him. Actually, I think I'll go do that right about...now.

100king to Improve 2/100

Everybody, meet The Walrus Man. Every time I look at this picture I shake my head, not because I did such a bad job but because this is really what the man looked like. Like a walrus.

Meet my biggest fan

I've been studying a martial arts called Son Shield Kenpo for almost 4 years. Let's say 3 1/2 to be safe. After you get up into the intermediate ranks, you get to choose a weapon and mine is the Chinese fighting fan. I know it sounds super duper girly but I wouldn't want to fight anybody who knew how to use a pair 'a those.

Walk a mile in their shoes...

Do ya kinda get that it's a boot? Cuz that's what I was going for but I'm not sure if I really got that across...

Put on your glasses, Shades. Give'm what they want.

Have you ever seen "That Thing You Do"? One of my favorite movies of aaaaaaaaaaall time. So many good lines come from that movie! It's just so funny!!! Anyway, I think of the drummer, "Shades" everytime I put my sun glasses on.

Last minute trip

We were sitting on the couch, it's about 12:30 and it was Mom's last day off while Jordan was with us (we traded her for my brother for 2 weeks) and our plan to go to the pool fell through. So we started looking up things to do in Iowa that would be fun for a girl of 6. We found out that tickets bought after 5:00 were half off at the state fair so we packed a lunch and started out for our 3 hour drive.

We didn't get to see the art building which kinda bummed me out but we still went on two rides with the little girl (carousel and ferris wheel) and we ate deep-fat-fried twinkies, and snicker bars AND a twinkie log (frozen twinkie dipped in white chocolate, almonds and covered in whip cream).

This view is from the top of the ferris wheel. It was the first time I'd seen an amusement park lit up at night.

Ooops, went out of order!

Ooops, this page was supposed to come before the last one but oh well. Anyway, I still put Catalina Dressin' on my pizza.

Artichoke Boot?

This picture represents part 2 of my crazy summer (actually it's part 3 - no, 4 - cuz I had camps and VBS in between here somwhere). We took my niece Jordan to a nature park for the day and her favorite part was walking around the flower garden where we found this strange phenomenon. My drawing really doesn't do it's queerness justice.

Steve and Miss Millie

Real "southern hospitality" means that you let 11 sweaty, stinky, gross northerners who have been working on your house all day, into your home, cook them a good Cajun meal and even let them sit on your sofa.

Beautiful Biloxy Bag

I went on a mission trip this summer to M-I-S-S-I-S-S-I-P-P-I. We helped rebuild houses for Katrina victims. I say "rebuild" cuz that's what we wanted to do, but what I really mean is "repaint". I had the best group a person could ask for and even though we worked in a heat index of 105, it felt good! I get to go again in January and I'm just countin down the months!

In the middle of the week we had a free day where we got to be tourists so we went to the beach, ate out, went sight seeing, and did a little shopping. That's when I set my eyes on this gorgeous bag. It was fifteen dollars, and I'm a bit of a penny-pincher since I don't earn a whole lot (10 dollars a week for mowing the lawn) but my mom told me that if I didn't get it, I would regret it for a long time.

I wish I could say that my bag held only the most romantic things: an old first-edition of Alice and Wonderland (I actually can't stand that story), love letters from my true love, a pair of cute reading glasses (I'm really near-sighted. Don't need reading glasses) and the like....Unfortunately all it holds right now is the school books I take to art while I wait for my class period.

It's been a while

So it's been a long time since I've last made a post on my blog, and I've actually missed it. We had some computer problems so I wasn't able to use my scanner and I've been crazy busy this summer. But not so much that I couldn't get a little drawing in. So here comes a whole slew of pictures, so get ready!

Freckles 1/100

So I've joined my mom's challenge group called 100king to Improve and I've decided to draw 100 faces. I think when I've drawn them all, my last one will be someone famous. Maybe Tom Hanks...or Salman Kahn, but not many people know him. Or...I don't know, I can't think of anyone else. Who do you think I should draw?
So I've joined my mom's challenge group called 100king to Improve and I've decided to draw 100 faces. I think when I've drawn them all, my last one will be someone famous. Maybe Tom Hanks...or Salman Kahn, but not many people know him. Or...I don't know, I can't think of anyone else. Who do you think I should draw?

Footprints

Another success! And! I made a new pattern that was inspired by the Squirt soda logo. It's at the ball of the upper foot. I love it! Makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside.

Oranges to Oranges...

This makes me giggle every time I see it! My DVD Math teacher (I'm homeschooled, can't remember if I put that in my self-description) , Paul Ziggler of Systematic Mathematics says when you're learned to add and subract fractions, "You can only add and subtract like things: Apples to apples, oranges to oranges, bananas to bananas, and hippopotamuses to hippopotamuses!" That quote will stay with me for the rest of my life. It's very moving. And I think of it every time I play this game.

Waiting for the Rainbow

Do you like my more dramatic title? Uber success! I'm so happy with this one! I really didn't think it was going to turn out til I shaded it. A huge step up from my last zentangle.

Pencil

This is my second entry in my new zentangle book and I'm afraid it fell well beneath the par. But I do really like the peacock feather at the top. Thanks Molossus!

Bunny?

Also on the art club field trip, we ate at Bananzas (which wasn't all that it was cracked up to be in my most humble opinion) where they had vending machines! My favorite! So there were little critters and I simply had to have one. When I first got this little guy, I (and many others) honestly thought it was some mutant dog with buck teeth, but the fluffy tail cleared that up.

Dice

I went on an art club field trip and along with visiting colleges and art shows, we also stopped at the well-loved, Hobby Lobby where I bought these awesome beads (that I still have yet to use) and two .005 Micron pens with which I used to draw this picture. Love Hobby Lobby!

Pocket Watch

I used a small paperback book that about...uh...6x5, gessoed, it and started with the fun! This is my first entry in it and I think it's a good sign :D

Stained Glass Windows

Does it show how vain you are if you hate to see your cards packaged in the mail going to someone whom you're sure won't appreciate as much as you do? This is a hypothetical situation, of course. I would never think such a thing. Ever. Ever...yeah.

Moving on! I had so much fun with this trade and I can't wait to sign up for another one!

Bubbles

I joined a "Bubbles" trade in one of my ATC groups so that I could get rid of the first black and white one that I made to send of and then the trade was canceled. So I saw this as an opportunity to give it a good home.